Providing relief after Cyclone Freddy in Mozambique and Malawi
Children and families affected by the destructive path of Cyclone Freddy across Mozambique and Malawi are in need of emergency relief and shelter. Storms and floods have destroyed schools and threatened access to basic services including safe water. As extreme weather events get even stronger as a result of climate change, UNICEF is focused on providing immediate relief and improving community resilience.
See how UNICEF is mobilizing to provide humanitarian relief >> |
Syria’s children need peace
After 12 years of conflict, millions of children in Syria continue to live in fear of attacks and displacement. Even before the February earthquakes, two-thirds of the population required assistance because of an economic crisis, ongoing hostilities and mass displacement. As needs escalate and this crisis deepens, UNICEF continues to reach children with the support and services they need to survive and thrive.
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The growing global nutrition crisis affecting women and girls
A shocking 1 billion adolescent girls and women around the world suffer from undernutrition, nutrient deficiencies or anemia. Urgent action is needed to break the cycle of poverty and malnutrition that further widens the inequality gap and endangers the futures of women and girls. In this latest report, UNICEF calls for the global community to leverage and transform food, health and social protection systems for women.
Check out UNICEF's latest report >> |
An inside look at UNICEF’s complex crises response
Learn more about all the moving pieces behind UNICEF’s crisis and emergency response in this conversation with UNICEF’s Chief of Emergencies for West and Central Africa, Nicola Bennett. In regions like the Sahel, which consists of 10 countries in West and Central Africa, situations have become more complicated because of conflict. And with conflict comes violence and displacement. Yet despite the challenges, UNICEF continues to deliver services to children growing up in areas controlled by armed groups.
Take a look at some of UNICEF's behind-the-scenes crisis work >> |
