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Protecting children against measles in Syria

Publication date: May 30, 2017

UNICEF and WHO supported the Ministry of Health to undertake a nationwide immunization campaign inside Syria this week. The campaign aims to reach two million children between the ages of seven months and five years in 12 governorates of the country.

Canada’s Famine Relief Fund critical to getting life-saving support to 1.4 million children at risk

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 29, 2017

Today, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced the creation of a Famine Relief Fund, building on its commitment to reach the most vulnerable affected by the famine crisis.

Notes from the Ebola epicentre

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 23, 2017

Going to the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak is not easy – you need to mentally prepare.

In photos: how vaccines are transported globally

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 23, 2017

Help us save more children: donate 129 polio vaccines through UNICEF’s Survival Gifts and reach 43 kids in need.

A child is a child: One girl's perilous journey to safety

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 17, 2017

Her name is Mary. She's from Benin City in Nigeria. When she was seventeen, Mary tried to escape a life with no prospects to work in a restaurant in Italy. Instead she was set up to be trafficked into the sex industry.

Six-year-old Canadian girl gives up birthday gifts for Syrian children

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 15, 2017

When Anna Puopolo turned five, she raised money for UNICEF’s work with children around the world. “This year,” she says, “we decided to do something a little bigger.”

Diaries from Syria: a single mother’s journey of hope and fear

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 15, 2017

Being a mother is miraculous. But for me, being forced live far away from my children just to put bread on the table, has turned this blessing into a curse.

Unwitting victims

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: May 15, 2017

Marked by massive violations of children’s rights, the Lake Chad Basin conflict has shattered countless lives

UNICEF Jordan’s Makani centres reach the most vulnerable children

Posted by: David Morley

Publication date: April 25, 2017

“Our village was so tiny, so far away and so unimportant that we thought the war would never reach us.” Hassan gave a sad shrug. “We were wrong.”

Jordan’s learning centres help children caught in conflict get back to school

Posted by: David Morley

Publication date: April 25, 2017

One of my strongest memories from this seemingly endless war is of a young Syrian refugee girl I met in Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq – 12 years old and three years out of school – who had forgotten how to read. What kind of hope could there be for a society that, in this day and age, could let children lose their education?

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Protecting children against measles in Syria

Canada’s Famine Relief Fund critical to getting life-saving support to 1.4 million children at risk

Notes from the Ebola epicentre

In photos: how vaccines are transported globally

A child is a child: One girl's perilous journey to safety

Six-year-old Canadian girl gives up birthday gifts for Syrian children

Diaries from Syria: a single mother’s journey of hope and fear

Unwitting victims

UNICEF Jordan’s Makani centres reach the most vulnerable children

Jordan’s learning centres help children caught in conflict get back to school

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