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We are closer than ever to eradicating a human disease for only the second time in history. UNICEF and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have helped slash the number of polio cases by 99.9% over 30 years. Still, there are children like nine-year-old Job, one of the last children in Kenya to contract the disease, who offer an example of polio’s consequences. Yet he also represents progress — endemic polio has now been eliminated from all but a few countries, including his. We will not stop until polio is no longer a threat to any child, anywhere. Learn more about Job here.
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UNICEF works in Bolivia and more than 100 other countries worldwide to improve water and sanitation services and basic hygiene practices. Lucilda, 6, can access clean water from a tap outside her home in the outskirts of Monteagudo, a small town in the Chuquisaca department, thanks to the success of a community water project supported by UNICEF with help from local partners, including Lucilda’s father, a plumber. Learn more about Lucilda here.
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Providing a safe place for kids to learn and play is one way UNICEF works to help children at risk. Fanta, 9, joins in daily recreational activities, organized under a tent, at a camp for displaced families in Elh Mainari, Niger. The UNICEF-supported program aims to recreate a sense of normalcy for children who have fled conflict — Fanta is originally from a part of Nigeria threatened by Boko Haram — and to protect them from further trauma, exploitation and abuse. Learn more about Fanta here.
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NOTE: UNICEF USA's 2016 Annual Report highlights our work for children — and financial results — for Fiscal Year 2016 (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016).
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