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Countries in Crisis
Reaching the most vulnerable during humanitarian crises is our greatest challenge. UNICEF's mission is to provide special protection for the most disadvantaged children: victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities. Our work aims to fulfill their basic needs and restore their dignity.
Your donation to UNICEF today will help save their lives.
Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands more made homeless by floods sweeping across Ethiopia. Some 200,000 people have been affected and the rains are expected to continue for several more weeks.
Deadly water-borne diseases are one of the biggest threats now facing children.
As the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah holds in southern Lebanon, children continue to suffer from inadequate services, water shortages and a lack of basic supplies. UNICEF is working to ensure protective environments for children who are returning with their families after being displaced by the conflict.
As many as 30,000 people were injured and more than 130,000 have been displaced as a result of a powerful earthquake that hit central Java, Indonesia early on Monday, May 29.
Urgent support is needed to provide humanitarian assistance to drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Children are among the most affected, weakening quickly and lethally by malnutrition and succumbing to commonplace infections.
UNICEF and the Government of Pakistan have launched a ?Welcome to School? campaign to make sure that children ? especially girls ? attend school in higher numbers than before the devastating October, 2005 earthquake. The joint programme is particularly pertinent in the remote mountain regions.
Children are the missing face of AIDS. Every day, almost 1,800 children under 15 become HIV-positive and 1,400 die of AIDS-related illnesses. The world must take urgent account of the specific impact of AIDS on children, or there will be no chance of meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 - to halt and begin to reverse the spread of the disease by 2015.
The conflict in Darfur has affected the lives of approximately 1.6 million children, 510,000 of whom are under five. These children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of hunger, disease, violence and exploitation. UNICEF has supported the construction of 2,182 temporary classrooms in Darfur; despite the conflict there are now more children in school than ever before.
Since 1997, DR Congo has been overwhelmed by ethnic strife and civil war. More than 3.3 million people have died. And the bloodshed continues today. Tens of thousands of children have been displaced from their communities. UNICEF's continued efforts to provide aid in this crisis will be contingent on the availability of funding.
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