Who You Help
Kids like Kawther
Every day thousands of children around the world are forced to flee their homes due to violence and conflict. UNICEF works to help these children by providing food, medicine and education during times of crisis.
Kids like Laila*
Over 70 million girls around the world have endured female genital mutilation. UNICEF works with communities to enact social change and end this harmful practice.
*Not her real name
Kids like Sreynet
Sreynet and her sister have never been to school.
As the number of primary enrolments are increasing around the developing world, there still remains 67 million eligible children out of school. UNICEF’s research has shown that it is the poorest of the poor who make up the majority of those not at school.
Kids like Mehrdod
In this picture, Mehrdod is vaccinated against measles in Tajikistan.
Every day 22,000 children die from preventable diseases. UNICEF vaccinates 58 per cent of the world’s children and is working in Tajikistan to vaccinate 3 million children, almost half of the population, against measles.
Kids like Angeline*
In this picture, Angeline* has received a mosquito net to protect against malaria.
In Africa, malaria claims a child’s life every 30 seconds, but with the use of something as simple as an insecticide-treated mosquito net, infection rates can be reduced by half.
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