Find out more about what UNICEF Ireland is doing to help children survive.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
UNICEF Ambassador Dustin the Turkey hosted a special story book reading to officially launch the UNICEF and IKEA Soft Toy fundraising campaign at the IKEA store in Ballymun, Dublin. For every IKEA Soft Toy, children’s book or kids meal purchased from now until December 23rd IKEA will donate one euro to education programmes worldwide supported by UNICEF.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
One hundred days since famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, UNICEF and its partners are doing their utmost to prevent a second and potentially more devastating wave of deaths from disease against a background of conflict.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
On Wednesday November 2, 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be making a special visit to UNICEF's global Supply Center in Copenhagen to help put the global spotlight back onto the humanitarian crisis in East Africa, which has left more than 320,000 children so severely malnourished that they are at imminent risk of starving to death unless they get urgent help.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
UNICEF is providing 20,000 insecticide-treated mosquito nets to help protect families evacuated to temporary shelters and living in other flood-ravaged areas in Thailand from dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The rain has begun on schedule in north-eastern Kenya, bringing the first real precipitation that many people in the semi-arid region have seen for months, if not years. But while eagerly anticipated, it’s both a blessing and a curse.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
The massive international response to the child survival crisis in the Horn of Africa has already shown some positive results, but much more needs to be done to save hundreds of thousands of children at risk of dying from malnutrition and disease, UNICEF said today according to a progress report three months after famine was declared in parts of Somalia.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
An estimated two and a half million people in Somalia, already suffering from drought, famine and conflict, are at risk of contracting malaria with the start of the rainy season.
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Friday, October 07, 2011
With 13 million people in desperate need of food in the drought inflicted Horn of Africa, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Yuna Kim, Serena Williams, Ishmael Beah and Angelique Kidjo are collectively raising their voices to highlight the ongoing effort to end this devastating crisis.
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Monday, October 03, 2011
UNICEF reports on the organization's efforts to contain the rising threat of cholera in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
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