Life and death choices facing the G8 The lives of 9.2 million children who die every year before they reach their fifth birthday are hanging in the balance as the G8 meets in Italy next week. Despite pledges made way back in 2005 to save children's lives, the G8 is falling short on what's needed to meet their promises. Unless the G8 commits to double donor funding to $7 billion for maternal and child health, millions of children will continue to die. Tell the G8 to give more to save more when they meet next week. 150,000 made their mark on the Day of the African child A huge thank you to those of you who took action on the Day of the African Child. 150,000 people across 17 countries in Africa took part! View our picture gallery of the day here. Thumbs up for Glastonbury 20,000 people made their mark at Glasto last weekend in support of our campaign to stop children dying, which is awesome! Oh, and so did Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand, Graham Coxon from Blur, Pixie Geldof, Tinchy Stryder, Andrew Marr, Tinariwen, KT Tunstall (pictured left)… See them making their mark here. Check out Zoe's blog if you missed us. Make your own pledge to help save children's lives. The day the gingerbread men went to parliament... Over the past year more than 6,000 of you have signed our 'gingerbread men' action cards asking the UK government to prioritise saving children's lives. Check out what happened when we took them to meet the Minister for International Development, Ivan Lewis.