Friend, every child has the right to grow up feeling happy, safe and loved.
For children facing extreme challenges like severe acute malnutrition, lack of health care access and humanitarian crises, the barriers to realizing these rights are great — and for children who live with disabilities, they are even greater.
Right now, there are approximately 240 million children living with disabilities around the world. Many feel invisible as a result of isolation in their communities and the discrimination they regularly experience. Compared to children without disabilities, children with disabilities are more likely to be undernourished, have limited access to routine medical services and have never attended school. UNICEF is working to change that — by ensuring that children living with disabilities have access to the resources and care they need to thrive.
To learn more about the disability inclusion commitments UNICEF is working to achieve by 2025, including improving budgeting, training and representation, read about our strategy:
Thank you for everything you do,
UNICEF USA
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