New Delhi, July 8 - An international NGO has asked G8 leaders gathered in Italy to do more to save the world's poorest children, stating that 9.2 million kids die every year from preventable diseases.

Save the Children warned the world leaders that promising help was not enough and asked them 'to show they are committed to saving the children's lives by doubling aid for maternal, newborn and child healthcare'.

Shireen Vakil Miller of the NGO said: 'The total contribution is only $3.5 billion a year, half of what we have been calling for. If G8 leaders and other donors do not double that money to at least $7 billion by 2012, they will have no chance of reaching their target to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015.

'Previous G8 leaders have made promises that have too often not been kept,' Miller said.

Of the 9.2 million children who die every year of diseases, two million are from India.