Find out more about what UNICEF Ireland is doing to help children survive.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
UNICEF Ireland Executive Director Peter Power's video diary from his third day in Eastern Chad near the Sahara Desert.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
International best-selling author & UNICEF Ireland Ambassador Cathy Kelly has just returned from her third field visit with UNICEF.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
UNICEF Ireland Executive Director Peter Power’s video diary from his first day in Abeche, Chad.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
The lives of 1,000,000 children are at risk right now in the Sahel region in West and Central Africa. Crops have failed. Families have nothing to eat. Peter Power, Executive Director of UNICEF Ireland, travels to Chad to draw further attention to this looming crisis as UNICEF continues to rush food, nutrition and other emergency relief to help children in the region.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
UNICEF says that children in the north of Mali are among the most vulnerable in the Sahel region, confronted not just by the food and nutrition crisis from the prolonged drought, but also by displacement and the effects of armed conflict in that part of the country.
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Friday, May 04, 2012
UNICEF said today it had received two donations from the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) to provide treatment for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in the Sahel nutrition crisis in West and Central Africa.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow has issued an urgent appeal on behalf of a million children in the Sahel whose lives are threatened by severe acute malnutrition.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
The first-ever World Immunization Week takes place from 21-28 April 2012. UNICEF offices around the world are engaging in immunisation campaigns and raising awareness about the importance of vaccines to child survival.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
The verdict against former Liberian President Charles Taylor by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone is a victory for children recruited and used in war and will serve as a warning to other war-time leaders and warlords, UNICEF said today.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Malaria kills a child under the age of five somewhere in the world every 40 seconds, which is equal to approximately 1,400 child deaths per day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children with the majority of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa alone.
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