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EMERGENCY UPDATE: CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN HAITI

UNICEF is responding to the urgent cholera outbreak in Haiti. More than half of the cases reported so far have occurred in children under 14, and as the disease continues to spread, a projected 100 more cases are being added every day. Donate to Haiti.

One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF

Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF’s first child-focused climate risk index.

On 4 March 2021, a child plays in the floodwaters in Gatumba, located near Bujumbura in Burundi. At least 50,000 people have been affected by the floods in the region in the past year. A few kilometres from the floodwaters, a big IDP camp has been formed to shelter people displaced by the flooding. Burundi is extremely vulnerable to climate change and climate change -triggered natural disasters- and as one of the poorest countries in the world, it has very little means to protect its population.

New shipment of UNICEF humanitarian aid arrives in earthquake-struck Haiti

First shipment with medical and water supplies has arrived; more to follow in the coming days

On 18 August, as part of ongoing relief efforts to children and their families affected by the devasting Earthquake in Haiti, essential supplies, including Non-Food Items such as tarpaulins and essential hygiene kits are distributed

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on children in Afghanistan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

At Shahrak-Sabz IDP settlement in Herat city, UNICEF and its partner continue to provide recreational activities and psychosocial support through fixed and mobile Child-Friendly Spaces (CFSs).

Amidst Kabul airport blockage, WHO and UNICEF call for assistance to deliver critical health supplies to Afghanistan

Joint statement by WHO Regional Director for Eastern and Mediterranean Region, Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, and UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei

Mustapha Ben Messaoud, Chief Field Operations visit Haji internally displaced camp who who have left their homes due to war and conflict. In the last few months, the conflict has escalated and there are over 18 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. 4 million children are out of school. Around 400,000 people have left their homes to seek refuge; over half are children.

First day of school 'indefinitely postponed' for 140 million first-time students around the world – UNICEF

At least eight million of these young learners have been waiting for over a year.

"The first day of school is a landmark moment in a child's life—setting them off on a life-changing path of personal learning and growth. Most of us can remember countless minor details—what clothes we wore, our teacher's name, who we sat next to. But for millions of children, that important day has been indefinitely postponed," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

UNICEF condemns Kabul airport attack

Statement by UNICEF Afghanistan Representative Hervé Ludovic De Lys on the attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday

Afghanistan ‘a child protection crisis in a country already one of the worst places on earth to be a child’

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Afghanistan Representative, Hervé Ludovic De Lys – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Group of children who left their hometown and are now in an IDP camp in Kandahar

Haiti earthquake: 3 questions for Yama Laurent

Following the earthquake in Haiti on August 14, we talked with UNICEF Canada ambassador Yama Laurent, who originally grew up in Haiti before moving to Canada, about her experiences with the 2010 Haiti earthquake, as well as how her family still in Haiti is coping in the aftermath.