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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Pau Gasol

UNICEF: NBA Star And Goodwill Ambassador Pau Gasol

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

NBA star and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Pau Gasol is here to highlight the country’s fight against HIV/AIDS.

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UNICEF: Helping Children Stay In School In The Occupied Palestinian Territory

UNICEF: Helping Children Stay In School In The Occupied Palestinian Territory

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

The basic right of children to go to school is continually threatened in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Access to schools is regularly jeopardized by Israeli military operations and intra-Palestinian conflict.

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UNICEF: "Go to School" Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan

UNICEF: “Go to School” Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

Progress has come quickly to Southern Sudan. Two years after a historic peace agreement ended Africa’s longest-running civil war, urban roads are congested with traffic and classrooms that once lacked students are now overflowing.

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UNICEF: Supporting Access To Early Education For Children In Rural Mongolia

UNICEF: Supporting Access To Early Education For Children In Rural Mongolia

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

By whatever transport available, parents bring their children to a lone Mongolian Ger on a vast dry plain. Inside, young boys and girls are learning a popular folk song.

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UNICEF: Nafa Centers Give Guinean Girls A Second Chance At Education

UNICEF: Nafa Centers Give Guinean Girls A Second Chance At Education

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

UNICEF works in a consulting capacity with the Ministry of Education, developing guidelines for Nafa centers so that they will continue to provide girls with the knowledge and skills to make the best of their lives.

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Children Orphaned by AIDS in Zimbabwe Struggle to Survive

Children Orphaned by AIDS in Zimbabwe Struggle to Survive

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

Once things were brighter here; there were job and fathers and mothers. Disease and death wrecked all that. Now, it is their frail and aging grandmother who is the centre of their lives.

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UNICEF: Guinea Townships Take Extra Steps To Make Sure Their Children Receive A Quality Education

UNICEF: Guinea Townships Take Extra Steps To Make Sure Their Children Receive A Quality Education

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

In the past 5 years, the number of Guinean girls going to school has increased dramatically thanks to a combined effort by local and national governments and development partners.

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Learning Centers Help Restore Hope for Palestinian Teens

Learning Centers Help Restore Hope for Palestinian Teens

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

The mission is to help children deal with feelings of hopelessness and provide a safe place for them to thrive.

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UNICEF: Mongolia Faces Challenges in Keeping Herder Children in School

UNICEF: Mongolia Faces Challenges in Keeping Herder Children in School

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

On the steppes of western Mongolia, Bayarkhuu and his schoolmate Tsengel herd a tribe of goats in search of better grazing grounds.

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UNICEF: Trading Guns for Textbooks

UNICEF: Trading Guns for Textbooks

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

As a child, Mayom Mabuoung was a soldier in Southern Sudan. Like many other children, Mayom’s transition to civilian life in southern Sudan was not easy.

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