The Today Tomorrow Project

Children First’s new capacity-building initiative – The Today Tomorrow Project – aims to address the underlying barriers to children accessing medical care in their own country and will directly impact the child mortality rate.

We have started our pilot project, working with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and our local partners in Papua New Guinea. Two training sessions will be conducted over the coming six months to build the capacity of clinicians (from grassroots local health workers through to surgeons) in Advanced Paediatric Life Support. 

These clinicians will be able to save the lives of children in a critical condition following an accident or rapid decline in an illness. They will be able to save the lives of children who currently would not make it. Those children CFF can’t get to soon enough.

Update September 2023

As you know we have teamed up with the RACS Global Health team and our local partners in Papua New Guinea, to build the capacity of local clinicians (from grassroots local health workers right through to surgeons) in Advanced Paediatric Life Support.  

These clinicians will be able to save the lives of children in critical conditions following an accident, rapid decline in an illness or surgery. They will be able to save the lives of children who currently would not make it.  

Support from people like yourself is critical to this initiative, and it has a direct impact on the child mortality rate.  
We already have trained 42 clinicians who treat up to 2,000 children each year. This is surgeons, A&E doctors, nurses, midwives and even paramedics.  
We are working to have up to 90 health workers trained by the end of the year. 

Thanks to you The Today Tomorrow Project will directly impact the child mortality rate.  

You can donate via the button to help us continue growing this program.