UNICEF through the lens

May 31 is ‘World No Tobacco Day’.

Check out this theoneminutesjr. video made by 18-year-old Theodor Leftar from Moldova. He really wants to fight smoking…and has an unique way of showing it.

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Bahati Traoré holds her sleeping newborn daughter, wrapped securely against her for warmth to reduce the risk of hypothermia, at the Kita Regional Reference Health Centre in the town of Kita in the western Kayes Region of Mali. The treatment is part of the ‘Kangaroo Mother Care’ method and was invented in Colombia in the 1980s to provide an alternative for premature or underweight newborns who have no access to incubators. Ms. Traoré’s daughter was born at a nearby centre two months early – a delivery brought on by shock following the death of another of her children, from malaria. The Kangaroo Mother Care method is now a standard treatment in Malian regional reference centres and is taught as a best practice in UNICEF-supported midwife trainings.

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Mali, 2010

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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.

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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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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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VIDEO REPORT: Putting children on the road to recovery in Mali

UNICEF correspondent Bob Coen reports on UNICEF programmes that are assisting malnourished children in drought-stricken Mali.

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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

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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.

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