South America
Alongside local and national partners across all sectors, UNICEF reaches millions of children in South America every year, helping to protect their rights and improve their lives and futures.
How to help vulnerable children in South America
UNICEF's work in South America is implemented through country offices in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Programs are coordinated through its regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean located in Panama City.
Working with partners in all major program areas — from health and immunization to nutrition, education to child protection — UNICEF reaches millions of children in South America every year, helping to improve their lives and futures.
Priorities include:
- strengthening health systems and primary care service delivery, including essential child immunizations
- improving access to quality education to address learning poverty
- strengthening social systems and services to better prevent violence against children
- mitigating the effects of climate change by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
- rushing emergency relief to areas hit by disaster and assisting with recovery
- providing support and protection to increasing numbers of children and families migrating north through the Darién Gap, a dangerous route connecting Colombia to Panama
UNICEF in Venezuela
UNICEF is also responding to the migration crisis triggered by socio-economic and political upheaval in Venezuela — providing displaced and migrating children and families with psychosocial support, medical care, safe water, warm clothing and other assistance at reception centers as far away as Chile.
Inside Venezuela, UNICEF is delivering essential services to children and families who have suffered the worst effects of the country's economic collapse — meeting urgent needs for nutrition and immunization, prenatal care for pregnant women, access to safe water and education, and child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to help ensure the world's children are healthy, educated, protected and respected. Help increase UNICEF's impact for children. Donate today.