UNICEF Middle East and North Africa
UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence.
UNICEF MENA covers 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, stretching from Morocco to Iran and including Djibouti and Sudan.
For more information, visit www.unicef.org.
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UNICEF Spotlight: Mothers overcoming adversity
This week, a Syrian mother struggles to raise her children in a refugee camp; mothers in Somalia... -
No matter the language, one simple word means the same thing around the world. It means happiness, protection and love.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 7 May 2013
A boy refugee near his family’s temporary home in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.Amid extreme volatility in Syria, over...
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“We wish stability would return to Syria so we could go back home’.
A Field Blog by Wendy Bruere UNICEF Emergency Communications Specialist from inside the Iraq camp of Domiz in northern Iraq -
In Tartous, a displaced girl child’s education put on hold due to serious injury
In one of the impromptu shelters for displaced families located...
By Alma Hassoun
DAMASCUS, 20 May 2013 – Five-day old Yaman took a long stretch inside an incubator at a charity hospital in Damascus, while his mother and sister were admiring him happily through the glass door of the unit.
Yaman has in many ways become one of Syria’s smallest hopes amid vicious fighting that has damaged hospitals and taken thousands of lives. His mother remained nearby, ready to breastfeed her youngest child to ensure the best nutritional start to life.
DAMASCUS/AMMAN/GENEVA, 17 May 2013 – Despite heavy fighting, UNICEF and partners have provided life-saving supplies over the last week to some of the hardest to reach areas in Syria, including Aleppo and Al Houla, as well as children and women who fled recent violence in Al Bayda and Baniyas.
UNICEF Spotlight: Mothers overcoming adversity
This week, a Syrian mother struggles to raise her children in a refugee camp; mothers in Somalia get their children vaccinated with a newly introduced pentavalent vaccine; and in Serbia mothers get help from UNICEF in caring for their disabled children.For more information, visit: http://www.unicef.org/
Yuna Kim: Help UNICEF help the children of Syria
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Olympic Gold Medalist and world champion figure skater Yuna Kim today made a heartfelt appeal for support for the children of conflict-torn Syria. Read about it here.
UNICEF was recently part of a mission to Al Houla, near Homs, with other United Nations agencies. The area was the scene of a massacre that left scores of children dead almost a year ago. One of our colleagues was part of the mission and sent us the following update:
“This was the first time that UNICEF was able to reach the embattled area of Al Houla to provide much needed humanitarian assistance. We wanted to assess the situation of the 70,000 people or so living there, around half of whom are displaced.
Don’t Say I’m Disabled
Algerian twin brothers are determined not to let their lack of sight hold them back from anything.
UNICEF held an open call for one minute videos on the subject of children with disabilities and asked young people around the world to express their views on the contest theme.
This video, created by 25-year-old Abdelkader Kherbouche, is one of the top 14 finalists of the “It’s About Abilities!” oneminutesJr youth video contest.
No matter the language, one simple word means the same thing around the world. It means happiness, protection and love.
Happy Mother’s Day!
“The conflict in Syria will produce more shattered lives”
On a visit to the Za’atari refugee camp in northern Jordan, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response (ECHO), saw first-hand some of the work that UNICEF and its partners are doing for the children of the largest Syrian refugee camp.
Here, she speaks to our colleague Alexis about the present, and future, of Syria’s children.
UNICEF supplies reach the children of Qunaitra
Our partners from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent recently distributed some UNICEF supplies to families and children in the governorate of Qunaitra, south-west Syria. The supplies included family hygiene kits, children’s clothes, stoves and school bags.
SARC volunteers shared with us these photos of the distribution.
Did you know that more than 728,000 Syrian children now live as refugees? Click on the image above for the latest on Syrian children’s needs and UNICEF’s response.
