UNICEF USA joins Royal delegation to UNICEF emergency center
U.S. Fund for UNICEF President and CEO, Caryl Stern, recently joined the the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in a visit to the UNICEF emergency supply center in Copenhagen, where they helped pack a shipment of emergency medical supplies for delivery to the drought and famine stricken Horn of Africa. Stern flew with the supply flight to Kenya and visited UNICEF operations there.
Millions of lives at stake
Millions of children across Somalia and the Horn of Africa are suffering a deadly combination of high food prices, armed conflict and crop failure.
The result: children too weak to fight diseases, unprotected from threats they could normally bear.
The massive international response to the situation in the Horn of Africa has already saved lives, but hundreds of children continue to die every day.
Famine in Somalia
The famine in Somalia is swift and dreadful. Millions have been affected and more than 700,000 refugees have fled starvation and face hardships in camps in Ethiopia and Kenya.
- What is famine?
- What is malnutrion?
- What sort of food aid is UNICEF providing in Somalia?
- See an infographic of UNICEF progress in Somalia.
UNICEF is the largest supplier of therapeutic and supplementary nutrition in Somalia.
Despite the challenges to a country torn apart by conflict, insecurity and poverty, UNICEF is able to operate to ensure that supplies reach children. UNICEF is building on more than 20 years work in the country to cooperate with more than 70 local aid partners to help the children made most vulnerable.
UNICEF in Horn of Africa
December 15, 2011
UNICEF at 65: Looking back, thinking ahead
On December, 11 UNICEF celebrated its 65th anniversary. Created in 1946 from the residual resources from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to secure the fate of Europe’s children, few then imagined that it would still be in existence today. Principles of equity were part of UNICEF's guiding vision from the very day of its creation and form part of its mission statement.
December 8, 2011
Mobile school is the answer to a Turkana girl’s prayers
Rebecca Ekusi remembers what life was like before she came to UNICEF-supported Kalokutanyang Mobile School. She spent her days tending her family’s goats in the vast, semi-arid expanse of Turkana, north-western Kenya. But even while Rebecca was doing her part to sustain the household’s traditional pastoralist livelihood, she yearned to go to school one day. Then a prolonged regional drought set in and withered the pasturelands.
December 5, 2011
Health outreach saves lives in Turkana, north-west Kenya
Kakwanyang Dispensary is a half-hour drive from the nearest town, along the rutted dirt roads of sparsely populated Turkana County. It brings health services within reach of children and families who would otherwise have to walk four hours to the district hospital for care. The Kenyan Government set up the spare, two-room outreach centre with help from UNICEF and other partners in July.
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