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A young girl holds a small plant during a school activity focused on the environment.

How to Build a Sustainable Future? Educate Children About the Environment

Advancing climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience for future generations starts with young people.
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Amir Ali, 5, and Baran, 3, sit next to their family’s belongings in the reception area at the Islam-Qala border crossing, just hours after returning to Afghanistan.

Children Returning to Afghanistan Need Urgent Support

More than 2 million Afghans, including half a million children, have returned from Iran and Pakistan in 2025. [video]
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A woman in a yellow head covering holds a small blue cooler while seated in front of a man on top of a camel.

Trekking Far and Wide to End Polio in Pakistan

With support from UNICEF and Rotary International, health workers in Pakistan deliver the polio vaccine to millions of children. [video]
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Mother cradles baby in hospital in Nepal where UNICEF supports newborn care.

Breast Milk Bank Helps Babies Thrive in Nepal

Funding cuts are stalling plans to expand a UNICEF-supported program that ensures optimal infant nutrition. [video]
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On April 6, 2025, a boy bathes beside a temporary water tank made with tarpaulin provided by UNICEF at a makeshift tent camp in Amarapura township, Mandalay region, Myanmar, following the recent earthquake.

UNICEF Delivers Vital Supplies for Myanmar Earthquake Survivors

Damage from the earthquake and extreme heat are compounding existing vulnerabilities for families in central Myanmar. More help is needed. [video]
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On March 31, 2025, a woman with two small children poses for a photograph with a box of UNICEF hygiene kits distributed to earthquake survivors in the Sagaing region of Myanmar.

Children Hit Hardest by Earthquake in Myanmar

UNICEF is rushing emergency supplies to families struggling to survive the aftermath of Myanmar's deadliest earthquake in decades. [video]
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ollapsed buildings in Mandalay Region, central Myanmar, reveals the devastating impact of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck at 1:00 p.m. on March 28, 2025.

Powerful Earthquake Rocks Myanmar

UNICEF teams are on the ground assessing damage and mobilizing emergency support for children cut off from essential services.
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For more than 36 years, medical nurse Jiydegul Rysbaeva has traveled on horseback across the Jon-Bulak Valley, Kyrgyzstan, delivering lifesaving vaccines and care to children and families on farmsteads across the region.

Delivering Measles Vaccines on Horseback in Kyrgyzstan

Dedicated health workers go the distance to keep children safe from disease outbreaks. [video]
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In June 2023, Mariam, a Sudanese refugee from the town of Tendelti, collects water from a borehole installed by UNICEF in the village of Koufroun, eastern Chad.

With Guinea Worm Eradication in Sight, a Celebration of a Humanitarian Legacy

In the 1980s, UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy Carter.
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