MAURITANIA/MALIAN REFUGEES
The Mbera camp in Mauritaniais home to 74,000 refugees from Mali, more than half are under 18. Many of the children have been in the camp for more than a year and their needs are great. UNICEF
The Mbera camp in Mauritaniais home to 74,000 refugees from Mali, more than half are under 18. Many of the children have been in the camp for more than a year and their needs are great. UNICEF
A campaign against Female Genital Circumcision (FGM) in Somalia has brought in religious scholars and leaders to emphasize that religion does not support the cutting of body parts. UNICEF
It's back to school time for thousands of Syrian children at Za'atari refugee camp in northernJordan. After a one-month winter break classes are full again bringing some degree of normality to the lives of children among the camps 70,000 population. UNICEF
Every year,Madagascarhas to face several tropical cyclones. In February 2012, cyclone Giovanna has destroyed over 1,400 classrooms in the districts of Brickaville and Vatomandry in theEasternCoastof the island. UNICEF
Some 1.7 million more teachers are needed to achieve universal primary education by 2015, the second of the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals, the heads of various United Nations agencies said today in a joint statement marking World Teachers’ Day. UNTV / FILE
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (19 September) told reporters he would use the upcoming high-level General Assembly session to personally press more than 120 world leaders to act on Syria. UNTV
UNICEF said today that it is vital to get children back to school at the approaching start of the school year in Syria to give them hope for the future. CH UNTV
A teacher training program supported by UNICEF and the European Union (EU) is providing better methods to teach throughout Angola. Around one third of all teachers in the country have no formal teaching training, part of the legacy left behind after a 27 year civil war. UNICEF
Thousands of teachers conducted an unprecedented primary school census in northern Somalia, helping produce the first comprehensive government-led survey on the state of schools in that region. The survey, to be repeated yearly, is part of a broad effort to rehabilitate and improve the country’s education system – from the inside out. UNICEF
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake visited a care facility this week in Bangladesh where orphaned and homeless girls are given a safe place to live, each one with a story to tell of violence, abuse and abandonment. UNICEF