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On July 29, 2024, a severely malnourished child is fed ready-to-use therapeutic food at the UNICEF-supported Payuer Nutrition Center in Renk county, South Sudan.

Foreign Aid Funding Cuts Harm the World's Children

At least 14 million children are expected to face disruptions to essential nutrition support and services in 2025 because of global funding cuts.
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Children in Kassala state, Sudan.

During Ramadan, Make a Difference for Children in Need

Ramadan is difficult this year for children whose lives have been turned upside-down by conflict in Gaza, Sudan and Yemen. [video]
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In Renk, Upper Nile State, South Sudan, mother feeds her child from a packet of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) supplied by UNICEF to treat malnourished children.

Malnutrition Crisis: Reaching Children in Need in South Sudan

With foreign aid cuts, prevention and treatment programs are facing severe funding shortfalls, putting children's lives at risk.
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Students in a temporary learning space for displaced children in Kikumbe Village, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sounding the Alarm on the Global Education Crisis

New analysis from Education Cannot Wait indicates that 234 million crisis-affected children require urgent support to access quality education.
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Mohammed, 15, stands in a UNICEF-supported child-friendly space, with a banner partially displaying the UNICEF name behind him, in Bseimeh village, Rural Damascus, on Feb. 2, 2025.

Protecting Syria's Children From Deadly Remnants of War

Mohammed, 15, learned about the dangers of unexploded ordnance at a UNICEF child-friendly space — knowledge he used to save his father's life.
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Raped by armed men in Khartoum at the age of 17, a young woman holds her baby son on her lap.

Sexual Violence Against Children Used as Weapon of War in Sudan

Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting women and children in Sudan. UNICEF is working with partners to provide support for young survivors.
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Ten-year-old Andrii embraces his mother in their kitchen in Kherson, eastern Ukraine. The boy has known nothing but war.

UNICEF Impact in Ukraine

Millions have been reached through UNICEF's humanitarian relief efforts in the past three years of full-scale war in Ukraine.
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In the drought-stricken Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia, 16-year-old Fatuma, leans against the white board in her classroom. She is in school instead of in an early marriage thanks to child protection programs supported by UNICEF.

Foreign Aid Is Critical to the Well-Being of Millions of Children

Support from the private sector — including individual donors — is needed more than ever to keep important humanitarian and development work going.
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In Port-au-Prince on Jan. 27, 2025, UNICEF Global Spokesperson James Elder interacts with students during a visit to a school that UNICEF and partners relocated from La Saline in 2023, after students got caught up in a clash between two armed groups.

Dispatch From Haiti: What Children Need Most

Multiple threats to children include recruitment into armed groups. What UNICEF is doing to deliver urgently needed support, protection and hope.
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