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Child Crisis in Nigeria: More Children Used as Human Bombs

Girls and boys in northeast Nigeria are being strapped to explosives and sent to carry out deadly attacks on civilians.
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Communities in Sierra Leone have been engulfed in a mudslide and flood. Hundreds have died and thousands of displaced children are in need of water and sanitation.

Sierra Leone Mudslides: Families in Agony

Two weeks after being engulfed in a mudslide and flood, nearly 500 have died, 600 more are missing, and thousands of children need help.
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and education activist Muzoon Almellehan meets with girls at a sewing class in a refugee camp in Chad.

"When You Have an Education, Nobody Can Take It Away from You"

UNICEF 's youngest Goodwill Ambassador, Syrian education activist Muzoon Almellehan, has a message for girls everywhere: Stay in school.
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child Wading in Water

Viewpoint on the Refugee Crisis

A conversation with Liz Paturzo, UNICEF USA volunteer and former Site Manager at the Ritsona Refugee Camp in Greece
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Students attend re-opened school in Mosul, Iraq

This School Year: Ensure all Children the Right to Go Back to School

Support the Protecting Girls' Access to Education Act (H.R. 2408/ S. 1580)
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At long last, UNICEF and partners have eliminated maternal & neonatal tetanus in Haiti, the last country in the Western Hemisphere where the disease remained.

Haiti Eliminates MNT, a Killer of Mothers and Babies

At long last, UNICEF and partners have won the fight against maternal and neonatal tetanus in Haiti — and the entire Western Hemisphere.
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New England supporters representing UNICEF USA in Boston!

A Summer of Activity

A New Boston CAT Member Shares Her Experiences
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With help from UNICEF, the people of Plaisance, Haiti built The Beudoret National School on the top of a hill.

A School in the Clouds

When a Haitian community and UNICEF work together to build a new school, the sky's the limit.
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Students elected to the school government line up with their UNICEF backpacks line up outside the primary school in Bloleu Village in Dix-Huit Montagnes Region, Sierra Leone.

UNICEF & Amazon: Delivering School Supplies to Kids in Need

A backpack filled with essential learning materials can help brighten the future for some of the world's most vulnerable children.
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