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.
More info: http://www.unicef.org
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 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
Rights for all children
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.
© UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi
![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
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
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
VIDEO REPORT: Malnutrition widespread among Maldivian children
Nearly 17 per cent of children in Maldives are underweight, and up to 19 per cent suffer from stunting. UNICEF is supporting government efforts to improve child nutrition.
Read the full story here: http://uni.cf/M0YGFc
The Rights of Children: Honour, protection from abuse & war
Claudine, a 17-year-old girl and survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, reveals a scar on her cheek and neck caused by a machete blow in the southern town of Butare. Claudine suffered many injuries, including an amputated hand.
1996 © UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi
