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UNICEF Ethiopia has supported children who were recovered through the negotiation of the Ethiopian and South Sudanese Government. The children have been provided with basic health, nutritional services, psychological support as well as nonfood items such as tents for their accommodation and full set of clothing for each child. Gambela Region, Lare Woreda © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Meklit Mersha
“It was dawn. I was asleep and woke up when I heard the noise of a gunfire. We immediately run out of the house. I remember being taken to a forest. We were afraid and scared. We were running fast but they caught me. Heard that my father was killed that day- didn’t know about it until my return. The Abductors are always talking to us but we don’t understand anything. I think they were trying to teach us their language. I only met one friend from my neighborhood but the rest of the children were strangers. I am so happy to be back to my family. When I grow up I only want to do good things to human beings by becoming a teacher or a doctor. I will never forget this incidence. It was such unexpected return- I was thinking they will lock us there forever. Me and my mother cried for a long time with happiness. Now that my mother is with me, I am not scared anymore. I miss my siblings so I want to go back to my village soon.”© UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Meklit Mersha
I got to sit on the weekly office meeting. The Bunia sub office, run by Sandra Lattouf (red hari back to camera) has a staff of 12 to cover the district of Ituri which has a population of about 4 million.
Nyarake Koang, 25, and her 1 year old son Tesloach Reath. Kuanylualthan Kebele, Lare Woreda. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Meklit Mersha
With the support of its partners, UNICEF has contributed to strengthening routine immunisation procedures, leading to a substantial increase in the coverage rates for all basic WHO-recommended vaccinations among children aged 18-29 months The organisation also supported nationwide immunisation campaigns against polio, measles, and diphtheria to avert the threat of disease outbreak, and introduced the rubella, Hepatitis B and Hib vaccines.
Nyahok Puoch, 25 years old, mother of 2 months old daughter Nyakhan Wiyual. Bilimkun Kebele, Lare Woreda, Gambella Region. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Meklit Mersha
On 15 July, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lionel "Leo" Messi stands with 12-year-old Rikelme Marseil, who is holding a football, at the UNICEF office in Port-au-Prince, the capital. Rikelme was hit by a stray bullet two weeks after the earthquake, near his home in Cite Soleil, and he is still convalescing. He now lives with his family in Carrefour Aviation, and participates in recreation programmes managed by the Haitian Olympic Committee, with support from the Government, UNICEF and other partners. The programmes provide structured daily sports activities and psychosocial support for young people.
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LIBERIA: Boys walk toward the UNICEF-provided latrines at Honduni Public School, a combined primary and secondary school in the village of Honduni in the north-central Lofa County. UNICEF supports the school’s Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP), which condenses six years of primary schooling into three to enable children to make up for years lost to armed conflict. UNICEF also provides learning materials, teacher training, and water and sanitation services. [#6 IN SEQUENCE OF SIX].
In 2007 in Liberia, children continue to suffer the consequences of a 14-year civil war that displaced more than 800,000 people and decimated basic infrastructure and services. Currently, unemployment stands at 85 per cent, and infant, under-five and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world. Some 75 per cent of women and girls have experienced some form of sexual violence. Weak governance systems, food insecurity and a lack of access to basic social services have hampered the transition from emergency relief to development. The nation remains in a fragile state, and continues to rely on the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) for its security. Nevertheless, progress has been made in rebuilding the country. Since the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in January 2006, some 100,000 children, women and men have gone through the disarmament and demobilization process, and over 75,000 are in reintegration programmes. Children are back in school and immunization programmes are reaching most parts of the country. UNICEF supports government efforts to provide child health and nutrition services, basic education, access to safe water and sanitation and protection from violence, exploitation, HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases. Development partners include the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Food Programme (WFP), and other UN agencies and civil society donors.
Nyadhoal Wech,60, holding her grandson Muoch Duer. She is taking care of the child because his mother has been killed when they came after her struggle to save his life. He is one of the new arrivals that came to the temporary residence on 24th May. He broke one of his arms due to a fight with another Murle child while he was abducted. His father has gone back to the village to bring two of his siblings to the temporary residence to see him.
“I do not have enough income but I don’t want them to go back to their village. I want to raise them myself in Gambella town.” Grandma doesn’t have enough income from farming but she wants to bring and raise them in Gambella town she says. “I hope the government will help us, otherwise, God will.” © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Meklit Mersha
Un bambino, sdraiato su un telo di plastica, riceve farmaci per via endovenosa in un ospedale di Dhushamareb, capitale della regione centrale del Galguduud, in Somalia. Sua madre è dietro di lui. La maggior parte dei bambini dell' ospedale soffre di malaria e di malnutrizione - ©UNICEF/NYHQ2009-0629/Kamber
In Marabo clinic village health workers were vaccinating and distributing vitamin A. UNICEF provides about 80% of the funding of the governments Expanded Programme of Immunization. UNICEF provides the vaccines, needles, syringes, cold chain materials and sharps boxes.
The Marabo clinic covers about 12,000 people. Most of the inhabitants are returnees. The clinic has 4 nurses and a further are being trained from the relais communautaires(I am not sure I heard this correctly as I am told this is not standard practice).
The clinic is supported by 25 relais communautaires voluntary workers. They register the mothers and children for the immunization and during the week spread health and sanitation messages. Three volunteers can be seen working on the campaign; one to register the children, one in charge of the vitamin A and one with iron tablets.
The volunteer who explained this to me (woman with black turban sitting at the table) had been a volunteer for 3 years, she had been asked to become one by her neighbours, she said she did the work as she wanted to develop her community. She spread messages about sanitation mainly at the end of prayer meetings but also from door to door. In her neigbourhood 30 out of 100 houses had latrines.
Solidarites has just started a programme to provide tools for families so that they can build latrines.
On 19 September, a woman, Kadie Sise, who is pregnant and suspected of having EVD, lies on a stretcher as health workers lift her into an ambulance, in Freetown, the capital. Nearby, people watch from a distance, afraid of getting too close to her..
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From 19–21 September in Sierra Leone, a public information campaign aimed to reach every household countrywide with life-saving messages on Ebola virus disease (EVD). UNICEF provided technical and financial support, including information materials, for the Government-led campaign, called the Ose to Ose Ebola Tok initiative, which means ‘house-to-house talk’ in the local Sierra Leonean language. During the campaign, over 28,500 trained social mobilizers, youths and volunteers went door-to-door to reach 1.5 million households and provide residents with information on protecting themselves against EVD and preventing its spread. UNICEF estimates that 8.5 million children and young people under the age of 20 live in areas affected by EVD in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, countries where disease transmission is widespread and intense. Of these, 2.5 million are under the age of 5. Nigeria and Senegal are also affected, having seen an initial case or cases, or experienced localized transmission. The current EVD outbreak in West Africa is the worst in history.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets Hoya Kids and UNICEF staff before her speech in Gaston Hall for the "Child Survival: Call to Action" forum.
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PAKISTAN: A girl leaves a latrine at a ‘child-friendly’ girls’ school on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of the southern province of Balochistan. UNICEF provides the school with educational and recreational supplies, hygiene kits, water and sanitation facilities and a teacher-training programme..
In April 2006 in Pakistan, UNICEF assistance includes increased support for girls’ education, the rehabilitation and reintegration of unaccompanied, orphaned, trafficked or exploited children; educational and vocational training for children who live or work on the streets; and support to child labourers and their families. UNICEF is also supporting the Government’s ‘Welcome to School’ campaign to rebuild the education infrastructure and boost enrolment in areas affected by the 8 October earthquake that killed over 73,000 people, and left 3 million homeless. The campaign aims to enrol students, especially girls, in higher numbers than before the earthquake. UNICEF has supplied ‘school-in-a-box’ kits and helped set up more than 3,000 temporary schools, serving 260,000 children in the affected areas. Throughout Pakistan, UNICEF is assisting efforts to narrow the gender gap in education – one of the highest in the world – through community mobilization, including the introduction of ‘child-friendly schools’, teacher training and improvement of physical structures, with special emphasis on water and hygiene facilities for girls. Child-friendly schools promote free, compulsory education for all children in a safe, clean learning environment that engages parents and the community, and respects diversity and the rights of the child.
H.E. Queen Mathilde of the Belgians, Honorary Chairperson of UNICEF Belgium, visited Ethiopia, 9-12 November 2015
©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Mulugeta Ayene
Spoločnosť Procter&Gamble je hlavným partnerom UNICEF od roku 2005. Prostredníctvom značky Pampers financuje program Hnutie za nemocnice priateľské k deťom na Slovensku a globálne pomáha bojovať proti novorodeneckému tetanu.
Globálne partnerstvo "1 balenie= 1 vakcína" začalo v roku 2006 a k dnešnému dňu spoločnosť P&G darovala viac ako 200 miliónov protitetanových vakcín, ktoré chránia matky a novrodencov pred novorodeneckým tetanom. V septembri 2009 spoločnosť P&G ohlásila záväzok darovať ďalších 100 miliónov vakcín, aby ochránil 33 miliónov matiek a ich novorodencov v 32 krajinách sveta.Slovenskí zákazníci podporili projekt k dnešnému dňu celkovým počtom 697 376 kusov vakcín.
Za ostatné tri roky sa podarilo znížiť úmrtnosť detí na túto zákernú chorobu. Za rok 2009 je evidovaných 59 tisíc úmrtí v dôsledku tetanu a dnes umiera na túto chorobu jedno dieťa každých deväť minút a nie každé 3 minúty. Dnes ostáva eliminovať tetanus v 40 krajinách sveta, vďaka prísľubu a novému rozhodnutiu zostane na listine už len 8 krajín.
#UNICEF staff distribute water and hygiene supplies to the families with #children in the underground #bombshelter in #Donetsk. Some of them have been living in the bomb shelters for three months.
UNICEF Ukraine / 2015 / Aleksey Filippov
There are currently more than 1,800 community health workers in Yemen, that have been trained by the local health authorities with the support of UNICEF and the European Union. The community health workers offer services which include immunization, screening and referral for childhood illnesses and malnutrition. And their contribution in better health outcomes for children and empowerment of women are eye seeing. So far, 639,000 under five children received health services, including malnutrition screening and treatment and more than 353,000 pregnant and lactating women were reached with maternal health and newborn care services, thanks to the joint UNICEF-EU project.
Photo by: UNICEF Yemen/2019/Al-Mahbashi
Ubah Jemal, 15, makes a call before a meeting of the Girls Club in Jigjiga, Somali Region, Ethiopia, 24 January 2015. Ubah is the vice president of the Somali Region Children’s Parliament, a position that enabled her to engage and empower girls in Jigjiga town, where she lives. In addition to heading the Girls Club in her own high school, she is responsible for setting up similar clubs in all the primary schools of her town. Ubah wants to pursue the field of medicine while continuing to serve in leadership position. “I want to become a doctor because it grants the opportunity to touch peoples’ lives directly, but ultimately, I want to become a leader, preferably a president,” she says. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Bindra
Seven-year-old Reem, far right, and her siblings received all the required immunizations. "I feel I did my duty toward my children," says their mother. (c) UNICEF Yemen/2010/Rasha Al-Ardi