Zahra Ennaji, age 16, carries a jug of water across the sand towards her family’s nomadic compound in the Sahara Desert near the southern village of Mhamid in Morocco. In addition to performing household chores, Zahra walks 5 km each way to attend a newly built primary school.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2005-2241/Giacomo Pirozzi
A 13-year-old girl stands in the yard of the women’s prison at Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Behind her stands a concrete wall, topped with barbed wire. Arrests of minors are frequently gang-related, with alleged offences ranging from petty crime to gun possession and assault. Children are often forcibly inducted into gangs, where they face violence from older gang members, rival gangs and the authorities. Many girls have been sexually abused, and some are HIV-positive. Once in prison, they can be held indefinitely without being charged or tried. UNICEF provides sanitation kits and educational and art supplies to this prison
© UNICEF/NYHQ2005/Roger LeMoyne
A boy holding a football stands in front of a shipping container that bears the UNICEF logo, in the Galagayin settlement for internally displaced persons (IDPs), in the district of Sabirabad, 180 km south of Baku, Azerbaijan. The container serves as a temporary kindergarten for some 60 children from the local community. It is 1 of 34 UNICEF-assisted facilities providing early childhood care and development services for 2,600 internally displaced and refugee children in 14 districts. UNICEF also provides roofing materials, educational supplies, and toys and recreational equipment.
2004 © UNICEF/NYHQ2004-0607/Giacomo Pirozzi
VIDEO REPORT: Mobilizing communities against polio
South Sudan’s Ministry of Health, together with UNICEF and other partners, is working to increase vaccinations against deadly but preventable diseases like polio.
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![Marie [NAME CHANGED], 10, sits in a room at La Maison Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow House) in the Boutiliers neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The UNICEF-supported orphanage provides food, shelter, medicine, education and psychosocial care for children who are living with or have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Since the shelter was established, 55 children have been admitted, 16 have died and three have been returned to their extended families. The shelter currently houses 36 children, of whom 26 are HIV-positive and 17 receive ARV therapy
2005 © UNICEF/NYHQ2005-0862/Shehzad Noorani
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Marie [NAME CHANGED], 10, sits in a room at La Maison Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow House) in the Boutiliers neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The UNICEF-supported orphanage provides food, shelter, medicine, education and psychosocial care for children who are living with or have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Since the shelter was established, 55 children have been admitted, 16 have died and three have been returned to their extended families. The shelter currently houses 36 children, of whom 26 are HIV-positive and 17 receive ARV therapy
2005 © UNICEF/NYHQ2005-0862/Shehzad Noorani
Sound the Alarm - Crisis in the Sahel
As aid agencies warn of a funding shortage for the crisis in the Sahel, actor and UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor calls for more help for the region.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 21 May 2012
A Karamojong girl runs to class in Naitakwaé Town.
Free primary education has raised enrolment rates to 83 per cent in Uganda. Still, children – especially girls – of the semi-nomadic pastoralist Karamojongs face additional barriers to education; less than 40 per cent of the community’s children attend school. A UNICEF-supported non-formal educational model, sensitive to Karamojong culture, is helping to boost enrolment.
©UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne
VIDEO REPORT: Fighting child sexual abuse in the Caribbean
Sexual violence against children is both widespread and underreported. In the Caribbean region, efforts to address the sexual abuse of children are beginning to gain momentum.
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Pre-school children of the indigenous Wayuu group line up to be vaccinated during a UNICEF-assisted immunization drive in Maracaibo City in the north-western state of Zulia in Venezuela. The drive is part of the Ministry of Health’s Trio por la Vida (‘Trio for Life’) programme, a UNICEF-supported initiative that promotes three components of child health: civil birth registration, breastfeeding and immunization.
2006 © UNICEF/NYHQ2006-2412/Susan Markisz
