DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - at a glance of smart advertising, charity leader traded on rumours of possible pregnancy of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to try to save the lives of babies in developing countries.
Before the Summit of the G8 rich countries who made the cut infant mortality a major theme in recent years, World Vision activists delivered a basket to the first lady of France with a kit of easily available in France delivery.
"What are simple products that any woman in Europe or North America can obtain at the pharmacy, but are inaccessible for many women in the developing world", Geraldine Ryerson-Cruz of the charity World Vision of Britain told Reuters.
Ryerson-Cruz said his charity is fighting to try to ensure that children around the world have the same chance of survival than the "first baby" French would have.
The French presidential palace has confirmed the pregnancy of Bruni, but the father of the President of the last week, Nicolas Sarkozy told a German newspaper that Bruni expects a child.
In the historic Villa Strassburger, World Vision activists delivered a basket with vitamins for pregnant women, a kit of safe delivery and hygiene supplies.
The basket was alcohol, surgical gloves, a razor blade for cutting the umbilical cord and sterilization baby care products.
Friday, Bruni will host first ladies of African nations participating in the Summit.
"As a French woman, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is 150 times more likely to survive pregnancy and childbirth than a woman in the former French colony, Chad," Ryerson-Cruz said in an interview.
Ryerson-Cruz said that baby of the Bruni is also 52 times more likely to survive until the age of five as a baby with Chad, which has one of the worst years of child mortality in the world.
Sarkozy welcomed the leaders of the eight richest countries of the world to the posh seaside seaside Deauville Thursday and Friday. Several North Africa and sub-Saharan African heads of State will also attend the meeting.
Ryerson-Cruz said that estimates of Global Vision that mainly thanks to the initiatives of the g-8 in recent years the number of preventable deaths by the vaccination of children around the world declined approximately $ 4 million to approximately 8.1 million in 2010, 12.4 million in 1990.
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