151 days ago From Jordan Times   View Archived Article

AMMāN, JORDAN - UNICEF country representative Dominique Hyde said the donation would provide children in the Zaatari camp with winter clothes and shoes to keep them warm during the winter as well as hygiene kits for babies. =93UNICEF continues to support refugees in ...

151 days ago From Pollstar   View Archived Article

FRESNO, CALIFORNIA - Selena Gomez has scheduled a January charity gig in New York City for UNICEF. This isn't the first benefit show the singer/actress has done for the United Nations Children's Fund. The 20-year-old artist has been an ambassador for the organiza ...

152 days ago From Examiner.com   View Archived Article

DENVER, COLORADO - UNICEF said today that more than 850,000 children received life-saving treatment for severe malnutrition in the Sahel region of Africa during 2012. This was in response to a severe drought that had struck the region creating fears of a massive famine ...

153 days ago From 3News NZ   View Archived Article

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. One of the more dangerous of those zones is Syria, with an estimated 1.2 million internally displaced people plus 400,000 ...

157 days ago From UN News Centre   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - =93Every time a child is killed or injured, every time a child loses a parent or relative, and every time their schools and teachers are attacked, the more all children in the deep south suffer,=94 said the representative of the UN Children's Fun ...

157 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Kaduna =97 The United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) has raised alarm over what it described as the increase in polio cases in the North. This was contained in a communique issued after the 13th High Level Advocacy meeting between ...

158 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DAKAR/GENEVA, 11 December 2012 =96 A UNICEF progress report says that more than 850,000 children are expected to have received life-saving treatment for severe acute malnutrition across nine countries in the Sahel region during the course of 2012. ...

159 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Within the camp, UNICEF, through Care International, is running an early childhood development (ECD) programme and also leads on providing safe water and sanitation and child protection. =93By now, we are reaching almost every child in the camp aged ...

159 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - =93The CHDs are now being regularly implemented across Somalia twice yearly by the Ministries of Health, UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Through a concerted support, staff are deployed to health centres to gear up for big crowds and long da ...

159 days ago From This Day Live   View Archived Article

LAGOS, NIGERIA - As part of a wider Niger Delta Support Programme (NDSP) aimed at addressing the causes of unrest in the region, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF yesterday signed a five-year agreement for the implementation of Rural Water and Sanitation Project ...

159 days ago From Africa Review   View Archived Article

NAIROBI, KENYA - "The latest clashes in North Kivu have raised the total number of schools affected by conflict this year to more than 600, which is more than double the number three months ago," Unicef said. After a relative truce of several weeks, the arm ...

163 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - BRUSSELS, Belgium, 6 December 2012 =96 The European Union (EU) and UNICEF have joined forces to protect more than 30 million children's lives by improving nutrition security in five Asian and four African countries. The EU is providing =8041 mill ...

164 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Crr =97 The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (Unicef) recently donated educational materials to Galleh Manda Lower Basic School, in Upper Fulladu West District, CRR south. The donated materials included exercise books, pencils, .. ...

165 days ago From my.hsj.org   View Archived Article

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI - UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Fund) established Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 to give children a chance to help other children during World War II. Since then, the program has expanded significantly and continues to help chi ...

166 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - CAPE TOWN, 2 December 2012 =96 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom met with children and young people near Cape Town today to learn more about their lives and to spread the word about what they have to say. The British actor, who is in South ...

166 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NEW YORK, United States of America, 3 December 2012 - Stigma, ignorance, neglect, superstition and communication barriers are among the social factors that explain the discrimination and isolation from society that children with disabilities face. ...

166 days ago From AOL Music   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Gaga wasn't just going on safaris during her recent Born This Way Ball tour stop in South Africa, the singer began work for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) by visiting one of The National Association of Child Care Workers' cen ...

167 days ago From Hindustan Times   View Archived Article

NEW DELHI, INDIA - Reshma Pathan always dreamt of winning an award. Last week, she was given the Navjyoti award for successfully resisting her family's plans to get her married at a young age. =93I always dreamt of achieving something in life that would bring me an ...

169 days ago From Coastweek   View Archived Article

NAIROBI, KENYA - UNICEF Kenya Representative Marcel Rudasingwa said during the release of findings from a first-ever national survey of sexual, physical and emotional violence against children administered by the government that authorities should identify and addres ...

171 days ago From Danbury News Times   View Archived Article

DANBURY, CONNECTICUT - A man suffering from cholera symptoms is carried into a hospital run by the relief organization Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Haiti and the Dominican Republic will require $2.2 billion over the next 10 .. ...