The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year. The ongoing violence is having a horrific impact on children and the essential services they rely on. Find out how UNICEF is responding and what’s urgently required in our new report: https://lnkd.in/gUpganu2
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
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Children in Haiti are facing an unprecedented displacement crisis as violence and collapsing services push them to the brink. Over 3.3 million children now require humanitarian assistance. Find out how UNICEF is responding and what’s urgently required in our new report: https://lnkd.in/gUpganu2
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Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children. Children have been killed, maimed, and displaced. We don’t know how many more have died due to preventable illnesses or are buried under the rubble. Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. We call on Israel to ensure full protection of the lives of all civilians. Every child killed is an irreplaceable loss. For the sake of all children in Gaza, this war must end now. Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell: https://lnkd.in/gHW6EzQn
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Children make up more than half of the deaths in the devastating earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan over a month ago. The lives of children like nine-year-old Hakim have changed forever. UNICEF is responding by providing essential supplies, including setting up child-friendly spaces where children can be children again. Donate and support children like Hakim in Afghanistan: https://lnkd.in/gp3fuNXH
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Four-year-old Sela has lost sight in her left eye from an airstrike in Gaza. Sela and her family’s home in Khan Younis was destroyed, and they were living in a tent amid rubble. Sela had stepped out of her tent one evening to ask her father for some sweets. At that exact moment, an airstrike hit a neighbouring tent. Shrapnel flew in all directions, striking her head and left eye. Emergency treatment required 50 stitches, and the injury left her sightless in that eye. “She keeps asking me about her eye, why it looks like this, and why she cannot see from it. I don’t know what to tell her,” - Sela’s mother, Fatma, says. UNICEF and partners are providing hospitals with health supplies as much as possible to support children like Sela. But what children in Gaza really need is a ceasefire and aid at scale NOW.
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Global funding cuts could disrupt access to essential nutrition services for over 14 million children. Behind this number are children like Sanad in Yemen, or Noor, displaced in Bangladesh, who rely on this support to recover from severe acute malnutrition. Good nutrition is the foundation of child survival and development. UNICEF calls on governments and partners to prioritize investments in nutrition so that every child can survive and thrive. https://lnkd.in/gZzXPCU4
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Two years ago, 10-year-old Khalid fled Khartoum, Sudan, with his uncle amid violence. The separation from his parents weighs heavily on him. At a UNICEF-supported “makanna” or safe space, he is finding a way to heal from his trauma and distress through the simple act of drawing. “I am drawing a new house and flowers today because I miss my home and I wish to go back there,” he shares. Every child in Sudan needs peace NOW.
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“I dream of becoming a police officer to help keep peace in our community. I feel sad that our classes are only open one day a week. I wish I could come to school every day,” says 11-year-old Sufia in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. For half a million Rohingya refugee children like her, education is the path to a brighter future. UNICEF and partners are working to make that possible.
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