Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn visits children in a UNICEF-supported creche in the hamlet of Phuc Ly, Phu Minh Commune, Tu Liem district near Hanoi in Vietnam.
The visit to Vietnam in October/November of 1990 contributed to drawing world attention to the needs of children in this aid- starved country. UNICEF cooperation in Vietnam focuses on increasing primary health care outreach including immunization, growth monitoring and maternal care; the construction of handpumps and latrines to extend safe water and sanitation availability; and support for daycare centres and universal primary education including the training of teachers and supplies provision. UNICEF also directs special attention to the country’s isolated minorities.
A girl holds a bowl with pieces of coloured paper, in an integrated early childhood development centre in the town of Monteagudo in Bolivia. The centre is run by a local NGO and the Child Defenders Office, a municipal institution that protects children’s rights and provides day care and other services free-of-charge for vulnerable children and families, with support from UNICEF. UNICEF has provided school supplies and educational toys and materials at the centre.
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.
Girls smile in an outdoor classroom at the UNICEF-supported Gua Community Girls’ School near the town of Nyal in Sudan. One girl holds an exercise book bearing the UNICEF logo.
UNICEF is providing schools with textbooks, exercise books, blackboards and other essential supplies in Sudan. Since 2002, UNICEF and other United Nations partners have helped establish over 200 community girls’ schools to deliver basic education at an accelerated pace, to provide a protective environment for girls and to ensure that they are academically prepared to further their education in mainstream school.
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
Lalita, 18, stands in front of a group of girls - her karate students - in the Women’s Education Centre in the Amos Block cluster of villages in Gaya District of India. Lalita is a graduate of an eight-month intensive course at the Centre and is the first child in her family and her entire village to attend school. Her father initially opposed sending her to school but is now very supportive. Lalita lives at the Centre while she teaches there. She also teaches other subjects in a centre for primary-school-age children in her home village.
UNICEF helped to develop and fund the Women’s Education Centre and continues to participate in key monitoring bodies, as well as to support teacher training.
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.
A boy reads by candlelight in his home in Malunge Village, near Mbabane, Swaziland. He and his sister were orphaned by AIDS. They now live with their grandmother and receive assistance from a UNICEF-supported programme for vulnerable children.
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.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Jackie Chan (centre) speaks with students during a visit to a class in Aidah Bihare School in Camea Village on the outskirts of Dili,Timor-Leste. UNICEF supports water and sanitation facilities at the school, which serves 243 children.
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