UNICEF
Founded in 1946, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized.
For more information, please visit: http://www.unicef.org/
DAMASCUS/AMMAN/GENEVA, 17 May 2013 – Despite heavy fighting, UNICEF and partners have provided life-saving supplies over the last week to some of the hardest to reach areas in Syria, including Aleppo and Al Houla, as well as children and women who fled recent violence in Al Bayda and Baniyas.
Congratulations to David Beckham on a long and illustrious football career!
Thank you again for your amazing commitment to UNICEF - we look forward to continuing our work together for children.
Here is a video from 2008 and his trip with UNICEF to Sierra Leone we hope you enjoy as much as the folks on the “pitch” did.
Yuna Kim appeals for the children of Syria
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Olympic gold medalist and world champion figure skater Yuna Kim makes a heartfelt appeal for support for the children of conflict-torn Syria.
The crisis in Syria, now in its third year, has affected 3.1 million children in Syria, while the number of children who have fled to neighbouring countries as refugees is nearing 730,000.
UNICEF is delivering food, water, medical supplies and education to Syrians in need.
Syrian Crisis - Leran more: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/syriancrisis_68134.html
Back to school after Typhoon Bopha
Six months after Typhoon Bopha took more than 1,000 lives and displaced more than a million people, teaching and learning are starting up again in elementary schools across affected parts of the Philippines.
Read more: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/philippines_69114.html
UNICEF Spotlight: Mothers overcoming adversity
This week, a Syrian mother struggles to raise her children in a refugee camp; mothers in Somalia get their children vaccinated with a newly introduced pentavalent vaccine; and in Serbia mothers get help from UNICEF in caring for their disabled children.
For more information, visit: http://www.unicef.org/
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 14 May 2013
Poverty reductions in Nepal have accompanied significant gains in child nutrition. But the poorest children, who have the least access to vital services, remain most vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies. Jamuna Saud, her family’s sole provider since the death of her husband, works all day in the fields to feed and support her children in Biraltoli Village. A joint UNICEF/EU programme is providing nutrition screenings for children in the impoverished village.
©UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani
To see more: www.unicef.org/photography
Lenny Kravitz: “Are you with me?”
4-year-old Shahadad was infected with polio when he was only 2. The brutal fact is that it could have been prevented.
Lenny Kravitz wants you to know that we can end polio in our lifetime if we work together and immunize every child.
Children from the poorest communities frequently miss out on the nutrition and care they need to grow up healthy.
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GIRLS CAN CODE
Kristen Titus, director of ‘Girls Who Code’, shares a shocking statistic with us about what girls in the USA DON’T want to do when they grow up.
Watch the video and tell us what it’s like where you live.
No matter the language, one simple word means the same thing around the world. It means happiness, protection and love.
Happy Mother’s Day!
