UNICEF

UNICEF

Non-profit Organizations

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UNICEF saves children’s lives, defends their rights, and helps them fulfill their potential. We never give up 🌎.

About us

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.

Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
New York, New York
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
1946
Specialties
Child Survival and Early Childhood Development, Basic Education and Gender Equality, Child Protection, Policy Advocacy and Partnerships, Humanitarian response, Supply and Logistics, Research and analysis, Development, and Innovation

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    “After almost a year of families experiencing horrors no man, woman or child should ever have to endure, this week we saw what can be achieved with, simply, will. The risk of polio spreading within Gaza and even beyond, especially to neighbouring countries, remains high. This week, we began to address it. UNICEF, UNRWA and WHO are working tirelessly to roll out a campaign in Gaza to vaccinate 640,000 children under 10 years of age. The first phase of the campaign, which ran from 1-3 September, reached more than 189,000 children under 10 years old in the central area of the Gaza Strip, surpassing its initial target. Approximately 513 teams were deployed across the area. History and scientific evidence have shown us that the safest and most effective way to stop the spread and protect children against polio is through vaccination. The vaccine is safe, and effective, and has been used to protect children in more than 40 countries over the last three years. However, none of this can be achieved without the area-specific humanitarian pauses to ensure healthcare workers and children can engage in the campaign without risking their lives. The agreed pauses were respected in this first phase, giving families and health workers the confidence to get the job done. This must continue. This is among the most dangerous and difficult vaccination campaigns on the planet. The Gaza Strip is already the most dangerous place in the world to be a child, and even with a polio pause, the vaccination campaign faces grave danger and immeasurable obstacles, including damaged roads and health infrastructure, displaced populations, looting and disrupted supply routes. Children have suffered enough. And now the stakes have risen to threatening other children in the region. We cannot fail.” - Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

    • Statement from Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa on the completion of the first phase of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip
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    As a nearby powerplant pummels smoke on the horizon, children in Obiliq suffer the worst air pollution in Kosovo. Through UNICEF’s Youth4CleanAir initiative, these young people are stepping up to measure air quality and advocate for a healthy environment for every child.

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    The first phase of a critical polio vaccination campaign in Gaza started Sunday 1 September with UNICEF, WHO, UNRWA and partners. More than 85,000 children were vaccinated in the Central Area of Gaza on day one. The two-round polio vaccination campaign aims to reach over 640,000 children. All parties MUST respect the area-specific humanitarian pauses to prevent the spread of polio in Gaza and the region. Children, families and outreach workers must be protected. Above all, Gaza’s children need a ceasefire.

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    What a happy boy! Diba’s mother, Tusabe, has seen a dramatic transformation in her son’s health after help from UNICEF-supported nutrition and medical services aimed at families who’ve fled conflict in eastern DR Congo. At eight months old, he’s eating a diverse and nutritious diet, in addition to breastfeeding. #ForEveryChild, nutrition.

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