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<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
WORKS FOR CHILDREN
<strong>UNICEF</strong> is the world’s leading organisation<br />
working <strong>for</strong> children and their rights.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> works with families, local<br />
communities, partners and governments in<br />
more than 190 countries to help every child<br />
realise their full potential. In everything we<br />
do, the most disadvantaged children and the<br />
countries in greatest need have priority.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> raises funds <strong>for</strong> <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s<br />
emergency and development work around<br />
the world and advocates <strong>for</strong> lasting change<br />
<strong>for</strong> children worldwide. This includes, <strong>for</strong><br />
example, working to change government<br />
policies and practices that restrict child<br />
rights in the <strong>UK</strong> and internationally.<br />
“When I met young people benefiting from<br />
International Inspiration in Tanzania it<br />
rein<strong>for</strong>ced how much sport can change lives.<br />
Oscar Pistorius, Olympic and Paralympic athlete
ACHIEVEMENTS<br />
2011<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> IN NUMBERS<br />
£95<br />
22<br />
countries emergency relief <strong>for</strong> children<br />
million tetanus vaccines provided in 2011<br />
36.7 through Pampers ‘one pack one vaccine’<br />
800,000<br />
million total income in 2011<br />
150,000<br />
babies in <strong>UK</strong> born in Baby Friendly<br />
Initiative accredited facilities<br />
children in <strong>UK</strong> attend schools that are<br />
developing a rights-respecting approach<br />
13<br />
million children in 20 countries improved PE,<br />
sport and play through International Inspiration<br />
15,000<br />
signatures <strong>for</strong> Get <strong>Children</strong><br />
Climate Ready campaign
CONTENTS<br />
EMERGENCIES<br />
SURVIVAL<br />
PROTECTION<br />
EDUCATION<br />
VOICE<br />
CLIMATE CHANGE<br />
Every child has the right to survive and thrive<br />
Every child has the right to protection<br />
Every child has the right to an education<br />
Every child has the right to a voice<br />
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LONDON 2012<br />
International Inspiration<br />
40<br />
<strong>UK</strong> WORK<br />
Baby Friendly, Rights Respecting Schools, Child Friendly<br />
42<br />
MONEY<br />
How and where your money helped children<br />
44<br />
THANK YOU<br />
HELP SAHEL NOW<br />
Emergency in 2012<br />
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Introduction<br />
From drought and famine in East Africa to flooding in<br />
Pakistan and unrest and conflict in the Middle East and<br />
North Africa, 2011 was a desperately challenging year <strong>for</strong><br />
millions of the world’s children. Extreme weather, rising<br />
food prices and conflict pushed families to the brink as they<br />
struggled to keep their children alive.<br />
I visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab,<br />
north-west Kenya, where tens of thousands of children<br />
arrived after braving the dangerous journey from famine<br />
and conflict-stricken Somalia. One of these children was<br />
Aden, age 3. His mother died en route and Aden was close<br />
to death when he arrived at Dadaab. His father Abdile didn’t<br />
leave his side <strong>for</strong> four weeks while <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported<br />
medical staff and nutritionists treated him. “I stayed with<br />
him day and night. I didn’t even have clothes to cover him.”<br />
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of<br />
Cambridge visited <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s Supply Division in Copenhagen<br />
to highlight the famine and <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s work <strong>for</strong> children.<br />
Thanks to the profound compassion of <strong>UNICEF</strong> supporters,<br />
in the <strong>UK</strong> and around the world, many millions of children<br />
were protected from diseases through vaccination and the<br />
supply of clean water, and 313,000 children were treated <strong>for</strong><br />
life-threatening severe malnutrition in East Africa. Together,<br />
we saved countless young lives.<br />
Floods returned to Pakistan <strong>for</strong> the second successive year,<br />
wreaking further havoc on the lives of already vulnerable<br />
children. Again, thanks to the generosity of supporters,<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> was able to provide clean water to more than<br />
100,000 people every day. In Haiti, <strong>UNICEF</strong> continued work<br />
to rebuild children’s lives after the devastating earthquake<br />
in 2010. In 2011 more than 750,000 children went back to<br />
school with learning materials provided by <strong>UNICEF</strong>.<br />
As a response to the increase in the number and scale of<br />
such disasters, more than 15,000 people joined <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
<strong>UK</strong>’s Get <strong>Children</strong> Climate Ready campaign, successfully<br />
calling on the <strong>UK</strong> Government to take action <strong>for</strong> children and<br />
play their part in setting up a global Green Climate Fund.<br />
As ever, <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s emergency work complements our<br />
long-term programmes to trans<strong>for</strong>m children’s lives. Even in<br />
these difficult economic times, our supporters have helped<br />
to ensure that we continue to deliver stunning successes<br />
<strong>for</strong> children. The number of children dying be<strong>for</strong>e their fifth<br />
birthday has fallen from more than 12 million in 1990 to<br />
7.6 million in 2010. The Measles Initiative has now helped<br />
to vaccinate one billion children. And three years ahead<br />
of target, we achieved the Millennium Development Goal<br />
to reduce by half the number of people without safe<br />
drinking water.<br />
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
raised £95 million <strong>for</strong> children worldwide. This helped<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> to provide more than 36.7 million tetanus vaccines<br />
to ensure the survival of mums and babies. It also helped<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> to protect more than 920,000 children from<br />
abuse and exploitation. And contributed to the Schools<br />
<strong>for</strong> Africa programme so that 8 million children get the<br />
chance to go to school. <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong>, as a delivery partner of<br />
International Inspiration, the international social legacy of the<br />
London 2012 Games, helped exceed the target to enrich<br />
the lives of more than 12 million children in 20 countries<br />
through physical education, sport and play.<br />
For children in the <strong>UK</strong>, we also saw landmarks in our work<br />
to improve child health, education and well-being. In 2011,<br />
more than 150,000 babies were born in facilities accredited<br />
by our Baby Friendly Initiative and 800,000 children in the<br />
<strong>UK</strong> now attended a school developing our rights-respecting<br />
approach.<br />
With your support, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> will continue to build on<br />
our successes as we strive to create a better world <strong>for</strong><br />
all children.<br />
David Bull<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Executive Director<br />
David Bull<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Executive Director<br />
Please help more children, visit unicef.org.uk/achieve<br />
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CHILDRENEMERGENCIES<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
WORKS FOR<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> saves children’s lives in emergencies.<br />
Johannes, age 11 months, was<br />
one of more than 310,000 children<br />
in East Africa treated <strong>for</strong> severe<br />
malnutrition by <strong>UNICEF</strong> in 2011.<br />
He received special high-calorie<br />
food to help save his life.
In 2011<br />
<strong>Children</strong> are hardest hit by disasters: losing lives, parents, homes and schools.<br />
For more than 65 years, <strong>UNICEF</strong> has been a leader in providing life-saving<br />
assistance and protection <strong>for</strong> children caught up in emergencies around the globe.<br />
With a permanent presence in more than 190 countries, <strong>UNICEF</strong> is poised to<br />
respond rapidly wherever and whenever disaster strikes.<br />
Your support helped <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> commit £48.5 million to help the millions of<br />
children affected by emergencies in 2011. We supported humanitarian relief work<br />
in 22 countries and regions.<br />
The children’s famine in East Africa dominated the international news <strong>for</strong> much of<br />
2011. <strong>UNICEF</strong> treated more than 310,000 children <strong>for</strong> severe malnutrition in 2011.<br />
Other emergency work included helping children affected by the<br />
floods in Pakistan and the conflicts in Libya and the Ivory Coast.<br />
During emergencies, <strong>UNICEF</strong> delivers life-saving help<br />
<strong>for</strong> children in five key areas:<br />
health and nutrition<br />
water and sanitation<br />
education<br />
protection from abuse and exploitation<br />
coordination and logistics.<br />
A Haitian boy proudly carries his new <strong>UNICEF</strong> backpack.<br />
He was one of more than 750,000 Haitian children who went<br />
back to school thanks to <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supplied materials in 2011.<br />
Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/emergencies<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
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EMERGENCIES<br />
EAST AFRICA<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/faminestory<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
WORKS FOR CHILDREN<br />
The Dadaab refugee camp in eastern<br />
Kenya is the largest in the world.<br />
It is home to 450,000 refugees, mostly<br />
Somalis fleeing famine, drought and<br />
conflict. Many of the refugees are<br />
children who trekked <strong>for</strong> days through<br />
the parched landscape. <strong>UNICEF</strong> helped<br />
provide health care, water and lifesaving<br />
high-protein food <strong>for</strong> children<br />
along the route and in the camp.
Famine and drought<br />
In 2011, drought, soaring food prices, and continuing<br />
conflict and insecurity in Somalia left 6.7 million children<br />
in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in East Africa.<br />
It was the worst drought <strong>for</strong> half-a-century in parts of East<br />
Africa, leaving pastures barren, water sources dry and<br />
livestock dead. Food prices rose to record highs, leaving<br />
families struggling to feed their children.<br />
For month after month, tens of thousands of families fled<br />
Somalia to Kenya and Ethiopia. They walked with little or<br />
no food <strong>for</strong> up to 20 days, leaving sick and weak children<br />
and parents to die along the way. At the height of the crisis,<br />
the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, already the largest<br />
in the world, was receiving 1,000 Somali refugees a day.<br />
By September, the population in the camp had swelled<br />
to almost half a million. <strong>Children</strong> made up around half the<br />
refugee population and were the most susceptible to<br />
illness, abuse and death.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> acts <strong>for</strong> children<br />
Just three months after the onset of famine in areas of<br />
Somalia and drought in the Horn of Africa, <strong>UNICEF</strong> had<br />
treated more than 100,000 children <strong>for</strong> severe malnutrition,<br />
vaccinated 1.2 million children against measles, and<br />
ensured that 2.2 million people had safe drinking water.<br />
By the end of the year, <strong>UNICEF</strong> had delivered 9,740 tonnes<br />
of life-saving supplies by air, land and sea. Supplies included<br />
ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat children with severe<br />
malnutrition, high energy biscuits, health kits <strong>for</strong> families,<br />
and medicine to treat diarrhoea.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> also worked with partners to provide a safe space<br />
<strong>for</strong> nearly 50,000 children to learn and play, and receive<br />
psychological and social care at <strong>UNICEF</strong> child-friendly spaces.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s emergency appeal raised around £6.3 million<br />
to assist <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s humanitarian work <strong>for</strong> children in<br />
East Africa.<br />
Nastexo, 17 months, holds a packet of<br />
Plumpy’nut, a high-protein food supplied<br />
by <strong>UNICEF</strong> to treat malnutrition. She lives<br />
at a refugee camp in Galkayo, Somalia.<br />
Her mother Rahmo told us, “Sometimes<br />
we get food, sometimes we don’t. My<br />
children don’t have food or nutrients.”<br />
Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/ emergencies<br />
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EMERGENCIES<br />
EAST AFRICA<br />
“<strong>UNICEF</strong> is leading the<br />
way and doing a fantastic<br />
job, but sadly there’s lots<br />
more still to do.”<br />
Duke of Cambridge<br />
Royal appointment<br />
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of<br />
Cambridge’s visit to <strong>UNICEF</strong> Supply Division in<br />
Copenhagen helped to put the famine and <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s<br />
work <strong>for</strong> children back into the spotlight, generating global<br />
news coverage and leading to nearly £1 million in further<br />
donations to the emergency appeal in the <strong>UK</strong>. Visits to the<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> website increased by more than 200 per cent<br />
on the day of the royal visit.<br />
On 2 November 2011, the Duke<br />
and Duchess of Cambridge and<br />
the Crown Prince and Princess of<br />
Denmark visited <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s main<br />
supply warehouse in Copenhagen.<br />
At the time of their visit, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
had delivered more than 24,000<br />
tonnes of supplies <strong>for</strong> children in<br />
East Africa.<br />
The Duchess of Cambridge’s<br />
visit to <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s main supply<br />
warehouse in Copenhagen helped<br />
to refocus public attention on the<br />
320,000 children suffering from<br />
severe malnutrition in East Africa.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/royalsvisit<br />
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WORKS FOR CHILDREN<br />
Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/ emergencies
Didn’t we fix famine?<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Ambassador Ewan McGregor presented<br />
emergency adverts on TV and in cinemas, which<br />
raised more than £1.2 million <strong>for</strong> children in East Africa.<br />
In October, we generated further coverage and funds<br />
with Eddie Izzard’s visit to the Kenya-Somalia border. The<br />
resultant ITV programme Didn’t We Fix Famine? had<br />
2.6 million viewers and showed <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s vital work <strong>for</strong><br />
children. Eddie also highlighted the children’s emergency in<br />
tweets and an exclusive <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> video diary. A full-page<br />
letter from <strong>UNICEF</strong> Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham<br />
to 3 million Daily Mirror readers brought donations of more<br />
than £51,000 <strong>for</strong> children.<br />
Hassan pulls through<br />
Eddie met Hassan, age 2, at the intensive care unit<br />
in Dadaab. He was severely malnourished and had<br />
been ill with pneumonia and diarrhoea <strong>for</strong> two months.<br />
He was being fed milk through a tube as he did not<br />
have enough muscle function to feed. It was touch<br />
and go whether he would survive. Hassan’s father sat<br />
anxiously beside him 24 hours a day.<br />
Two weeks after Eddie’s trip, we received an update on<br />
Hassan. It was good news. Hassan was recovering and<br />
had left intensive care. The update was accompanied<br />
with a note from our field officer Ci<strong>for</strong>a Monier.<br />
Eddie Izzard met a father who had to bury his two malnourished<br />
children en route to Dadaab. Eddie described how difficult it was<br />
to dig a grave in the bone-dry ground.<br />
“I could not stop him from crying. I know that it sounds<br />
mad, but I was really happy to see him cry because<br />
10 days ago he did not have the energy to shed a single<br />
tear. It’s a miracle that he pulled through given the state<br />
he was in. This proves that aid works.”<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> provided the hospital with life-saving food and<br />
other supplies.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/izzard<br />
Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/ emergencies<br />
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EMERGENCIES<br />
EAST AFRICA<br />
“I stayed with him day and<br />
night. I didn’t even have<br />
clothes to cover him.”<br />
LIFE 1 : Aden lives<br />
Six weeks ago, three-year-old Aden arrived at a<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported nutrition centre in Dadaab. He<br />
was close to death – malnourished, dehydrated and<br />
suffering from respiratory infections.<br />
Timothy Wachira, a nutrition nurse at the centre, recalls<br />
his condition. “He was very wasted, dehydrated and<br />
had complaints of vomiting, diarrhoea and a cough.”<br />
Aden and his family had trekked from Somalia <strong>for</strong> 25<br />
days. On the long journey, weakened by hunger and<br />
illness, his mother died.<br />
Aden’s father, Abdile, didn’t leave his son’s side <strong>for</strong><br />
four weeks while medical staff and nutritionists treated<br />
Aden.“I stayed with him day and night. I didn’t even<br />
have clothes to cover him.”<br />
Day after day, the health workers administered<br />
antibiotics, therapeutic milk and food – much of which<br />
came from medical and nutrition supplies provided<br />
by <strong>UNICEF</strong>.<br />
After a month, Aden’s had recovered enough to<br />
leave the centre and set up a new home<br />
with his father and siblings among the<br />
thousands of other tents and shelters in<br />
the refugee camp.<br />
Left: Abdile cradles his severely<br />
malnourished son Aden.<br />
Right: One month later, Aden<br />
and Abdile were able to leave<br />
intensive care.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/aden<br />
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Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/ emergencies
LIFE 2 : The lucky one<br />
LIFE 3 : Obsa<br />
Famine, drought, and war <strong>for</strong>ced Mariam, her husband<br />
and three children to abandon their home in Somalia.<br />
Heavily pregnant, Mariam simply wanted a safe place<br />
to give birth.<br />
After 20 days of walking under a burning sun through<br />
the arid landscape, the family arrived at Doolow on the<br />
border with Ethiopia. For the first time in ages, Mariam<br />
felt safe. “The peace we saw here last night was the<br />
most we’ve seen. There was no gunfire.”<br />
In Doolow they met Shamso, a local midwife<br />
trained by <strong>UNICEF</strong>, who offered to help. Shamso<br />
had a <strong>UNICEF</strong> Safe Delivery Kit with basic but vital<br />
equipment to ensure a hygienic delivery.<br />
As dawn broke, sheltered by nothing more than a<br />
thorn tree, Mariam gave birth to a healthy baby girl.<br />
“She is called Ayan, which means the ‘lucky one’.”<br />
A health worker measures Obsa’s upper arm to<br />
check <strong>for</strong> malnutrition at a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported feeding<br />
programme in Ethiopia. The reading is still in the red,<br />
meaning that Obsa is severely malnourished. Obsa is<br />
just 7 months old.<br />
This is his fourth visit. Obsa was first diagnosed with<br />
severe malnutrition during a <strong>UNICEF</strong> Child Health<br />
Day. Early diagnosis and life-saving high protein food<br />
helped to save Obsa’s life.<br />
“Be<strong>for</strong>e we started coming here, Obsa had become<br />
so thin that I was no longer able to put socks on<br />
his feet – they just kept falling off,” said his mum<br />
Meftewa. “Obsa has gained weight and I am<br />
so relieved.”<br />
The health worker confirms that Obsa has put on<br />
500 grammes. He is slowly recovering.<br />
Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/emergencies<br />
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EMERGENCIES<br />
HAITI<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/haitistory<br />
A malnourished toddler is<br />
weighed at a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported<br />
health centre in Port au Prince,<br />
capital of Haiti. Since the<br />
earthquake, <strong>UNICEF</strong> has helped<br />
to set up almost 200 centres <strong>for</strong><br />
babies and toddlers.<br />
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Building back better <strong>for</strong> children<br />
On 12 January 2010, a massive earthquake hit the<br />
Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing more than 220,000<br />
people. The disaster affected almost 1.5 million children,<br />
leaving tens of thousands orphaned or separated from<br />
their parents.<br />
Within days, our supporters enabled <strong>UNICEF</strong> to deliver<br />
planeloads of life-saving health, nutrition, water and<br />
sanitation supplies <strong>for</strong> more than 250,000 children,<br />
giving crucial early prevention against child dehydration,<br />
disease and malnutrition. At the height of the emergency,<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> was helping to deliver clean water to 1.2 million<br />
people living in temporary shelters. <strong>UNICEF</strong> also helped<br />
to vaccinate more than 2 million children against lifethreatening<br />
diseases. Then in late 2010, a cholera epidemic<br />
claimed more than 1,000 lives. Once again, <strong>UNICEF</strong> was<br />
one of the first to respond, setting up more than 70 cholera<br />
treatment centres and providing medicine and water<br />
purification tablets.<br />
A Haitian boy proudly holds his new <strong>UNICEF</strong> backpack. <strong>UNICEF</strong> has helped to build<br />
190 new schools in Haiti and is providing education materials <strong>for</strong> a further 2,500.<br />
In 2011 <strong>UNICEF</strong> was able to deliver cholera prevention<br />
supplies <strong>for</strong> 2.2 million people, provide safe sanitation <strong>for</strong><br />
over 320,000 people, and give nearly 200,000 people at<br />
least 10 litres of safe water every day. In addition, more<br />
than 750,000 children have now been able to go back to<br />
school with learning materials provided by <strong>UNICEF</strong>.<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> supporters gave more than £650,000<br />
to help Haitian children to bring to recover from the disaster<br />
and to start to rebuild their lives.<br />
A girl plays with a toy from a<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> early child development kit<br />
at a nursery in Port au Prince, capital<br />
of Haiti. <strong>UNICEF</strong> has provided more<br />
than 1,500 kits to help toddlers<br />
recover after the earthquake.<br />
A girl washes her hands at school in Port au Prince, capital of Haiti. <strong>UNICEF</strong> rebuilt her<br />
school after it was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake.<br />
Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/emergencies<br />
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EMERGENCIES<br />
HAITI<br />
LIFE : Naika<br />
Naika, age 11, is excited and pleased<br />
to be back at school. “My parents are<br />
very proud I am going to school again.”<br />
School not only provides a safe space<br />
to learn but also the chance to have a<br />
decent meal. “I am very happy that I get<br />
food here every day.”<br />
Naika, is one of more than 750,000<br />
children who have been able to go back<br />
to school with learning materials provided<br />
by <strong>UNICEF</strong>.<br />
LIFE : Pierre<br />
After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Pierre<br />
(14) had to leave home to find a better life.<br />
He ended up having to beg on the streets.<br />
After being badly beaten, he sought<br />
shelter in an orphanage <strong>for</strong> three months.<br />
At the orphanage, Pierre met a <strong>UNICEF</strong>supported<br />
local organisation that provided<br />
counselling and reunited him with his<br />
family. Pierre is now safely back at home<br />
with his mum in north-east Haiti.<br />
“At home, I sometimes<br />
have to go two days<br />
without eating anything.”<br />
“I didn’t know that life<br />
could be so hard.”<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
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Please help children in emergencies, visit unicef.org.uk/ emergencies
SILENT EMERGENCIES<br />
The <strong>Children</strong>’s Emergency Fund<br />
Our <strong>Children</strong>’s Emergency Fund is vital in helping<br />
us to help children caught in under-reported or often<br />
completely ignored humanitarian crisis around the<br />
world. It allows us to deliver a rapid response to<br />
children in these so-called ‘silent’ emergencies.<br />
In 2011, the Fund helped us to provide rapid support<br />
<strong>for</strong> nine emergencies <strong>for</strong> children worldwide.<br />
South Sudan, birth of a nation<br />
On 9 July, South Sudan gained independence<br />
from Sudan. The new nation has one of the<br />
world’s highest infant mortality rates: one<br />
in nine children dies be<strong>for</strong>e the age of five.<br />
Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the<br />
north have put massive pressure on basic<br />
services, while the ongoing drought in East<br />
Africa is causing severe food shortages.<br />
In the southern state of Western<br />
Equatoria, children and families<br />
remain terrorised by the Lord’s<br />
Resistance Army.<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> provided<br />
£359,000 to save and change<br />
children’s lives in South Sudan.<br />
A girl gets water from a pump at<br />
a refugee camp in Agok, South<br />
Sudan. <strong>UNICEF</strong> is providing<br />
water, health care and education<br />
<strong>for</strong> children at the camp.<br />
LIFE : Jerrisa<br />
Jerrisa and her baby Yamima (now 2) fled<br />
their village to escape the onslaught of the<br />
Lord’s Resistance Army. Jerrica couldn’t<br />
carry her son Jon and had to leave him<br />
behind. She has not seen him since.<br />
“We were attacked early in the morning.<br />
I could only grab my small baby. I assume<br />
my toddler was killed. I know that they<br />
pound children to death … All I want is to<br />
put my daughter in school.” Jerrisa<br />
“I didn’t know that life<br />
could be so hard.”<br />
“I could only grab my<br />
small baby. I assume my<br />
toddler was killed.”<br />
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EMERGENCIES<br />
OTHER EMERGENCIES<br />
PAKISTAN : Floods<br />
Boys collect water from a pump contaminated by floodwater<br />
in Sindh, Pakistan.<br />
The 2010 monsoon season saw the worst<br />
floods in Pakistan’s history, affecting more<br />
than 20 million people – half of whom were<br />
children. The disaster claimed more than<br />
1,700 lives and damaged or destroyed at least<br />
1.8 million homes. In 2011, heavy monsoon<br />
rains and floods returned, wreaking further<br />
havoc on the lives of up to 2.5 million children.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> again responded rapidly, providing<br />
clean water <strong>for</strong> over 40,000 people a day and<br />
supplying 4.6 million water purification tablets<br />
and 2 million sachets of water disinfectant.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> also ensured that more than 78,000<br />
children got back to school quickly by creating<br />
more than 1,600 safe temporary learning<br />
centres in the worst affected area of<br />
Sindh province.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> supporters donated more than<br />
£482,000 to help <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s humanitarian work<br />
<strong>for</strong> Pakistan’s children.<br />
IVORY COAST : Conflict<br />
Ashkenazi goes back to school with <strong>UNICEF</strong> in western Ivory Coast.<br />
In 2011, political violence in Ivory Coast<br />
caused over 500,000 people to flee their<br />
homes, most of whom were women and<br />
children. Food, clean water and health<br />
care <strong>for</strong> children were scarce as the state<br />
struggled to provide basic services.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> was able to vaccinate more than<br />
1.7 million children against measles and<br />
other illnesses. <strong>UNICEF</strong> also provided childfriendly<br />
spaces <strong>for</strong> more than 20,000 children<br />
displaced in the conflict. These spaces gave<br />
children a chance to learn, play and receive<br />
psychological and social care <strong>for</strong> any trauma<br />
they had suffered.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> supporters donated more than<br />
£109,000 to help <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s humanitarian<br />
work <strong>for</strong> Ivorian children.<br />
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LIBYA : Conflict<br />
<strong>Children</strong> play on the roof of a building destroyed during the conflict in their home city of Misrata, western Libya.<br />
In February, an uprising in Benghazi against the Gaddafi<br />
regime escalated rapidly into violent conflict across<br />
much of Libya. Fighting and sanctions lasted 10 months<br />
and affected the lives of millions of women and children.<br />
Nearly 800,000 people fled Libya into neighbouring Egypt<br />
and Tunisia, with many more internally displaced by the<br />
shelling and fighting within their communities.<br />
Many children were killed as anti-government <strong>for</strong>ces<br />
battled with Gaddafi loyalists. Hundreds of schools were<br />
destroyed, disrupting the education of the majority of<br />
children across Libya and leaving many more suffering<br />
from stress and trauma unable to escape the violence.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> played a key role in the humanitarian response<br />
in Libya. Supplies were immediately deployed, initially<br />
covering 20,000 people at the Tunisia and Egypt border<br />
crossing points, and assisting a further 20,000 people<br />
with essential humanitarian needs including health kits<br />
and vaccines in Libya itself. <strong>UNICEF</strong> distributed 10 million<br />
litres of safe water to around 500,000 vulnerable people<br />
including children and women. Since the conflict ended,<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> has supported the Ministry of Education with<br />
the rebuilding of schools and a back-to-school campaign<br />
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as well as providing psychological and social support and<br />
mine-risk education <strong>for</strong> vulnerable children.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> supporters donated more than £400,000 to<br />
assist <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s humanitarian work <strong>for</strong> children in Libya.<br />
LIFE : Najah<br />
The conflict in Libya <strong>for</strong>ced Najah,<br />
age 11, to leave her home. She is<br />
now living in a school. “It is a bit<br />
like being in prison. Our parents<br />
are worried about us.”<br />
Najah and her five brothers and<br />
sisters are living at a school in<br />
Benghazi, northern Libya. They<br />
fled their home because they were<br />
frightened by the constant rocket<br />
fire. The children hid under the<br />
stairs <strong>for</strong> five days.<br />
“I was afraid because it felt like it<br />
could lead to madness, and people<br />
were listening and monitoring<br />
us,” said Najah. “We thought the<br />
soldiers would come and get us.<br />
Now we are here and I want to<br />
start school.”<br />
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The right to survive and thrive <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
SURVIVAL<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> works worldwide to save children’s lives<br />
12<br />
A girl is checked <strong>for</strong> malnutrition in<br />
northern Togo. One child in three is<br />
stunted because of malnutrition in Togo.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> provides special high-protein<br />
food <strong>for</strong> malnourished children here, as<br />
well as helping to train and equip health<br />
workers, and provide nutritional and<br />
hygiene education <strong>for</strong> families.
In 2011<br />
Every day, more than 20,000 children under the age of five die.<br />
This is unacceptable. Simple, low-cost solutions can prevent<br />
most of these deaths.<br />
Your support helps <strong>UNICEF</strong>:<br />
vaccinate against illnesses such as measles and polio<br />
provide nutritious food and clean water<br />
supply mosquito nets to prevent malaria<br />
help mothers receive good health care during pregnancy.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> committed £6.7 million to support our<br />
vital work to prevent the needless deaths of children<br />
under the age of five.<br />
PAKISTAN : CLEAN WATER<br />
A mother bathes her daughter in<br />
floodwater near her home in Sindh, southwest<br />
Pakistan. Every day, as part of our<br />
response to the devastating floods in 2010<br />
and 2011, we provided safe drinking water<br />
to more than 100,000 people.<br />
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SURVIVAL<br />
VACCINES<br />
Measles on wheels<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> has helped make great progress in<br />
preventing children dying from measles.<br />
In 2001, more than 750,000 children died from<br />
measles. By 2008, child deaths had fallen by more<br />
than 75 per cent. But still every five minutes,<br />
a child under the age of 5 dies from measles<br />
somewhere in the world, despite the availability of<br />
an effective vaccine that costs just 40p per child.<br />
Many of these deaths are in Africa, and in 2010<br />
reported cases of measles increased <strong>for</strong> the first<br />
time in eight years.<br />
On 5 September, a team of 48 Barclays’ lawyers<br />
and suppliers completed a five-day, 450-mile cycle<br />
ride from Edinburgh to London. The ride raised<br />
£130,000 <strong>for</strong> <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s measles vaccination<br />
work across Africa. These funds will be<br />
matched by the Bill and Melinda Gates<br />
Foundation, ensuring that thousands<br />
of children in Africa will be immunised<br />
against measles. Also in September, the<br />
Alliance Ball, attended by leading figures<br />
from the construction industry, raised a<br />
further £150,000 <strong>for</strong> <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s measles<br />
immunisation work. These funds will also be<br />
matched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<br />
The Barclays Wheels <strong>for</strong> Change team cycled<br />
450 miles in 5 days, raising £130,000 <strong>for</strong> children.<br />
MEASLES : Deborah<br />
Deborah, age 3, lives in the remote village<br />
of Losso in the northern Republic of<br />
Congo. Last year, Deborah got very sick<br />
with measles. She had a raging fever and<br />
her body was limp. Deborah’s mother<br />
Katie was terrified that she was going to<br />
die. She took her daughter to the nearest<br />
hospital, which was nearly three days<br />
away by canoe.<br />
Deborah thankfully recovered and is now<br />
looking <strong>for</strong>ward to having a baby brother<br />
or sister. Mum Katie is anxious that she<br />
is isolated from medical care and would<br />
like a health centre close by <strong>for</strong> her<br />
pregnancy and <strong>for</strong> when her children get ill<br />
with malaria, diarrhoea and conjunctivitis,<br />
common problems <strong>for</strong> children in the area.<br />
“I would like my<br />
daughter to help women<br />
in need one day.”<br />
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POLIO : Nandu<br />
Nandu, age 5, lives with his mother Barti, his father<br />
Sirdha, and his three brothers and sisters. Their<br />
home is a single room. Both his parents are seasonal<br />
workers in a brick kiln. The children usually start<br />
helping their parents make bricks from the age of nine.<br />
There is nowhere to play or to go to school.<br />
This morning, Nandu received a polio drop as part<br />
of his immunisation course. Once a week, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
sends vaccinators to the site to make sure that every<br />
child is vaccinated against polio. Such campaigns<br />
helped ensure that no child in India was diagnosed<br />
with polio in 2011. This is an astonishing victory that<br />
holds out hope <strong>for</strong> the eradication of this crippling<br />
disease in our lifetime.<br />
Barti says that all her children have now received<br />
their vaccinations.<br />
TETANUS : Regina<br />
For Regina, age 31, life is all about being<br />
a good mum and doing all that she can<br />
to keep her children healthy. She lives with<br />
her husband and five children in the remote village<br />
of Sawa Erma, Papua, eastern Indonesia. Regina has<br />
tragically lost two of her children to diarrhoea and<br />
malaria. She is both excited and nervous about being<br />
pregnant again.<br />
The <strong>UNICEF</strong> and Pampers partnership has provided<br />
tetanus vaccines to tackle the high incidence of<br />
tetanus in the Sawa Erma region, and Regina is one<br />
of the mothers who has been vaccinated. However,<br />
there are many mothers and babies still to reach in<br />
this remote, rural area. With your support, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
will work to reach every child.<br />
In 2011, we provided<br />
36.7 million tetanus vaccines<br />
<strong>for</strong> mums and babies<br />
worldwide through Pampers<br />
‘one pack one vaccine’<br />
“I feel happy that I have the<br />
vaccines to keep me and my<br />
babies safe from tetanus.”<br />
“My children are well and it<br />
makes me feel happy to think<br />
they will grow up healthy.”<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/tetanus<br />
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SURVIVAL<br />
MALARIA<br />
Blood, sweat and tears<br />
In 2010, malaria killed more than 560,000 children<br />
under the age of 5. It is a brutally efficient killer.<br />
About one in every five child deaths in Africa is<br />
due to malaria. The mosquito kills more children<br />
than any other creature in the world.<br />
Raging fever, agonising spasms,<br />
seizures then coma: a terrible death<br />
<strong>for</strong> a small child. What makes it even<br />
more tragic is that we know it is easy<br />
to prevent most of these deaths.<br />
Mosquito nets are an effective and<br />
low-cost solution. Sleeping under an<br />
anti-malarial bed net can reduce child deaths by<br />
20 per cent.<br />
LIFE : Julieta<br />
Five-month-old Julieta lies in intensive care<br />
at a hospital in southern Mozambique. She<br />
has a breathing tube in her nose. Julieta<br />
has malaria and a severe respiratory<br />
infection. Her mother Zaida Alvero strokes<br />
her <strong>for</strong>ehead. “I have never used a<br />
mosquito net because I didn’t have money<br />
to buy one,” Zaida said.<br />
Malaria is the leading killer of children in<br />
Mozambique. Every year, about 36,000<br />
children die from malaria here - the<br />
equivalent of 180 primary schools in the<br />
<strong>UK</strong>. To tackle this killer disease, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
helped distribute 2.9 million mosquito nets<br />
to children and pregnant women.<br />
Between 2000 and 2010, <strong>UNICEF</strong> supplied<br />
more than 164 million nets, helping to save<br />
countless young lives. In 2011, we also<br />
provided more than 30 million malaria<br />
treatments to nurse infected children<br />
back to health.<br />
“I have never used a<br />
mosquito net because I<br />
didn’t have money.”<br />
Every minute of<br />
every day, a child<br />
dies of malaria.<br />
Fatimata, age 2, from Sierra Leone is<br />
sick with malaria. In 2010, <strong>UNICEF</strong> helped<br />
to supply 3.2 million mosquito nets to<br />
mothers and children in Sierra Leone.<br />
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AIDS<br />
LIFE : Clodine *<br />
Clodine is six months pregnant and is<br />
HIV positive. She is receiving antenatal<br />
care from a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported clinic in<br />
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.<br />
“This clinic is helping me by giving me<br />
free medicine <strong>for</strong> my HIV, by making<br />
sure that I am healthy and by giving me<br />
food,” Clodine said.<br />
Breaking the chain<br />
In 2010, around 390,000 babies<br />
were born with HIV, 250,000<br />
children died of AIDS, 3.4 million<br />
children were living with HIV, and<br />
17.1 million children had lost one<br />
or both parents to AIDS.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong>’s global campaign Unite<br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Children</strong>, Unite against AIDS seeks to stop this<br />
terrible toll by:<br />
*name changed to protect identity<br />
“This clinic is helping<br />
me by giving me free<br />
medicine <strong>for</strong> my HIV.”<br />
preventing mother-to-child transmission of<br />
HIV providing children with life-saving antiretroviral<br />
medicine<br />
preventing new infections among young people<br />
protecting and supporting orphans left<br />
vulnerable by AIDS.<br />
Elson, 21 months old, holds up family<br />
photographs at his home in Lusaka,<br />
Zambia. Elson’s mother, Inonge, learned<br />
she had HIV while pregnant with him. Thanks<br />
to a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported programme, mother<br />
and baby received medicine and care and<br />
Elson was born free from HIV.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/aidsfree<br />
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SURVIVAL<br />
FOOD<br />
“Hunger and<br />
malnutrition are not<br />
due to lack of food<br />
alone, but are also<br />
the consequences of<br />
poverty, inequality<br />
and misplaced<br />
priorities.”<br />
Kul C.Gautam, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
Deputy Executive Director<br />
Enough to eat<br />
Every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the<br />
world dies because of malnutrition. That<br />
is 2.5 million children dying be<strong>for</strong>e their fifth<br />
birthday. This is simply unacceptable. The world<br />
produces enough food to feed every<br />
man, woman and child on Earth.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> has been a leader in child<br />
nutrition since we were founded to<br />
help feed children in Europe after<br />
World War 2.<br />
We promote and protect exclusive<br />
breastfeeding <strong>for</strong> a baby’s first six<br />
months of life, provide special high energy, high<br />
protein food to treat malnutrition, and deliver<br />
essential nutritional supplements such as<br />
vitamin A.<br />
LIFE : Hawa<br />
Hawa, age 4, has her upper arm<br />
measured at a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-assisted nutrition<br />
centre in north-east Kenya. She is<br />
severely malnourished. Famine and<br />
conflict <strong>for</strong>ced Hawa and her family to flee<br />
their home in Somalia. Hawa has been<br />
receiving treatment <strong>for</strong> malnutrition since<br />
she arrived at the camp a week ago.<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> was the main provider<br />
of high-protein, high-energy food <strong>for</strong><br />
malnourished children in Kenya. There<br />
were more than 320,000 severely<br />
malnourished children in need of<br />
treatment across East Africa – that’s the<br />
equivalent of half the total number of<br />
children born in the <strong>UK</strong> in 2011.<br />
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LIVES : Suleyman and Sami<br />
LIFE : Ayanleh<br />
Mahasin brought her sons Suleyman (age 3) and<br />
Sami (1) to a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported feeding centre in<br />
Darfur, Sudan. The brothers were weak and thin from<br />
malnutrition and their lives were in danger.<br />
As soon as they arrived at the centre, Suleyman and<br />
Sami were given special high-protein food to help<br />
them recover. After just four days of treatment, the<br />
boys’ health had improved dramatically.<br />
Thanks to <strong>UNICEF</strong> donors, <strong>UNICEF</strong> is able to reach<br />
quickly children like Suleyman and Suli. But we need<br />
to help more children. One in three children under the<br />
age of 5 in Darfur suffers from chronic malnutrition.<br />
Every week, Sania brings her son Ayanleh (11 months)<br />
to the <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported health centre in Balbala,<br />
Djibouti. In November 2011, Ayanleh was severely<br />
malnourished. Drought and high food prices in Djibouti<br />
left Sania unable to feed her son.<br />
Just two months later, Ayanleh was taken off the<br />
critical list, thanks to <strong>UNICEF</strong> supplies of high-protein<br />
peanut paste that Sania takes home every week.<br />
“I was afraid he was going to die. I was desperate<br />
because I did not have enough food to give him.<br />
My child only survives because this centre is here.<br />
Without it I think he would be dead.” Sania<br />
“The sooner you get to a child<br />
the better. One day could be<br />
too late.”<br />
Susan Lilicrap, <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s head of nutrition in Sudan<br />
“My child only survives because<br />
this centre is here. Without it I<br />
think he would be dead.”<br />
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SURVIVAL<br />
WATER<br />
Most precious<br />
Water is essential to human survival. In 2012,<br />
with <strong>UNICEF</strong> support, we achieved the<br />
Millennium Development Goal to reduce by half the<br />
number of people who do not have safe drinking<br />
water. Between 1990 and 2010, over 2 billion<br />
people gained access to clean drinking water.<br />
Despite this progress, unsafe water<br />
and poor sanitation and hygiene still<br />
kills more than two children every<br />
minute of every day. Diarrhoea kills<br />
more children than AIDS, malaria and<br />
measles combined.<br />
Dirty water and poor sanitation does<br />
not only kill. <strong>Children</strong> – and particularly<br />
girls – are prevented from going<br />
to school because schools<br />
don’t have private and decent<br />
sanitation facilities. <strong>Children</strong><br />
also miss out on school as<br />
they travel long distances<br />
fetching water.<br />
We can and must do<br />
more to save and change<br />
children’s lives.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> works around the<br />
world to provide children<br />
with clean water and basic<br />
sanitation in schools and<br />
communities.<br />
ETHIOPIA : Drought<br />
More than half the population of Ethiopia<br />
lack clean drinking water, and only one in<br />
10 has proper sanitation facilities. In<br />
addition to low coverage levels, poor<br />
water quality means that there are<br />
frequent outbreaks of water-related<br />
diseases such as diarrhoea, a leading<br />
cause of child death. <strong>UNICEF</strong> aims to<br />
make clean water and safe sanitation<br />
available to every child in Ethiopia by 2015.<br />
Thanks to our supporters, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> has<br />
provided 50 sustainable water points in<br />
rural communities, benefiting 25,000<br />
people. We are also providing water and<br />
sanitation facilities in 10 rural health posts<br />
and a further 10 schools, as well as<br />
supporting crucial hygiene education.<br />
Since the catastrophic floods in 2010 and<br />
2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> has provided safe drinking<br />
water and improved sanitation <strong>for</strong> nearly<br />
3 million people in Pakistan.<br />
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MOZAMBIQUE : One million<br />
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. : Christiana<br />
Less than half the population have safe drinking water<br />
in Mozambique. The country has one of the highest<br />
rates of infant death, mainly because of diarrhoea,<br />
cholera and other deadly diseases linked to poor<br />
sanitation and unsafe drinking water.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> is working with the Government of<br />
Mozambique on the One Million Initiative to build or<br />
improve water and sanitation <strong>for</strong> 1 million people in rural<br />
Mozambique. In 2011, as part of one of the largest water<br />
programmes in Africa, <strong>UNICEF</strong> helped provide 200,000<br />
people with clean drinking water and more than 120,000<br />
people with safe sanitation. We also helped deliver clean<br />
water in schools <strong>for</strong> 30,000 children.<br />
Christiana, 7, has been seriously ill with typhoid <strong>for</strong><br />
two months. Five children have already died of the<br />
disease caused by contaminated water in her village in<br />
north-west Central African Republic. There is just one<br />
well and a handpump <strong>for</strong> the entire village of 2,900<br />
residents, so children have to drink unsafe water.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> is supporting safe water, sanitation and<br />
hygiene work in the village.<br />
“It is our responsibility to make make sure that we<br />
do everything possible to ensure that children are<br />
protected.” Tanya Chapuisat, <strong>UNICEF</strong> Central<br />
African Republic<br />
“It is our responsibility to make<br />
make sure that we do everything<br />
possible to ensure that children<br />
are protected.” Tanya Chapuisat,<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> Central African Republic<br />
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The right to protection <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
CHILDRENPROTECTION<br />
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<strong>UNICEF</strong> works worldwide to protect every child<br />
A man abandoned Marie* (age 8)<br />
and her brother Francisco (age 4)<br />
in woods near Haiti’s border, after<br />
he was spotted trying to smuggle<br />
them into the Dominican Republic.<br />
A <strong>UNICEF</strong> child protection officer<br />
brought them to a <strong>UNICEF</strong>supported<br />
centre that provides care<br />
and support <strong>for</strong> trafficked children<br />
while authorities search <strong>for</strong> their<br />
parents, or until they are placed in<br />
longer-term residential care.<br />
A recent <strong>UNICEF</strong> study estimates<br />
that at least 2,000 Haitian children<br />
are trafficked annually to the<br />
Dominican Republic.<br />
* name changed to protect her identity
In 2011<br />
Every child has the right to a safe childhood, protected from violence,<br />
abuse and exploitation. Yet there are 150 million child labourers worldwide,<br />
1.2 million children trafficked each year, and 250,000 child soldiers.<br />
This is wrong.<br />
Your support helps <strong>UNICEF</strong> put it right by:<br />
helping children leave the streets or dangerous work and go to school<br />
demobilising child soldiers and reintegrating them into the community<br />
reuniting trafficked children with their families<br />
providing care <strong>for</strong> abused and exploited children.<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> committed £1 million to<br />
child protection programmes.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/streetstory<br />
RWANDA : ERIC GOES FROM STREET TO SCHOOL<br />
As soon as he could walk, Eric (age<br />
10) helped his mother beg on the<br />
streets of Butare, southern Rwanda,<br />
Now, he lives at a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported<br />
hostel <strong>for</strong> street children. Eric also<br />
goes to school where, alongside<br />
normal lessons, he learns how to<br />
grow food and rear cattle. Eric also<br />
gets the chance to play sport and play<br />
with his new friends. His mother visits<br />
him once a month. You can help more<br />
children go from street to school.<br />
Please help protect more children, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve<br />
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The right to protection <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
PROTECTION<br />
Sugar <strong>for</strong> school<br />
Until the age of nine, German didn’t go<br />
to school because it was simply too far<br />
away. Instead, he spent his spent days cutting<br />
sugarcane with a machete and living under a<br />
piece of tarpaulin with his mum, dad, and five<br />
brothers and sisters. The family constantly moved<br />
in search of work.<br />
German’s story is not unique. <strong>Children</strong> as young<br />
as six toil in the fields and mines of Bolivia. But<br />
German’s life trans<strong>for</strong>med when his family moved<br />
to the village of San Juan del Carmen. Here they<br />
found a place they could settle. The villagers held<br />
classes <strong>for</strong> children under the shade of a tree.<br />
The classes proved so popular that they were<br />
overwhelmed with children. <strong>UNICEF</strong> stepped in<br />
to help.<br />
Today, the village has two classrooms staffed<br />
by four permanent teachers, a well, a hand<br />
pump, and a playing field. Free from<br />
the burden of heavy work, the children<br />
laugh and play with friends.<br />
FOSTER CARE : Bulgaria<br />
Ivayla and her twin sister Ivelina (age 4)<br />
were placed in an institution after their<br />
grandmother died and their mentally<br />
disabled mother was deemed unable to<br />
care <strong>for</strong> them. They now live with a foster<br />
mother Nejymmia. Nejymmia became<br />
a foster parent through a <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong>supported<br />
programme to provide training<br />
<strong>for</strong> authorities and support <strong>for</strong> children<br />
and foster families. So far, more than<br />
330 children have moved from institutions<br />
to foster care.<br />
Bulgaria has the highest rate of infant<br />
institutionalisation in Europe. With your<br />
support, <strong>UNICEF</strong> is working to make sure<br />
that more children grow up in a loving,<br />
family environment.<br />
“It’s safe here.<br />
We have a<br />
place to play.”<br />
German, Bolivia<br />
With support from <strong>UNICEF</strong>,<br />
German (13) is the first member of<br />
his family to go to school in Bolivia.<br />
“Let us not <strong>for</strong>get that<br />
there are hundreds of<br />
Bulgarian families saving<br />
the world every day.”<br />
Tanja Radoca, <strong>UNICEF</strong> Bulgaria<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
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CHILD LABOUR : Daniel<br />
CHILD SOLDIER : Mwindo<br />
Daniel, 16, has his life back after three years of<br />
working in a copper mine in the Democratic Republic<br />
of Congo. In the mines, the older children extract raw<br />
minerals underground, while the young ones carry<br />
the ore and wash the extracts in the river. The work is<br />
punishing. Accidents, disease and hunger are rife.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> is working to change this. Daniel’s family is<br />
one of 10,000 who have received food and clothing<br />
kits and training. After selling the commodities,<br />
Daniel’s mother was able to enrol her boys in primary<br />
school and buy a small plot of land. Today, she has<br />
enough pigs to meet her family’s basic needs.<br />
“I am now in the final year at school,” said a smiling<br />
Daniel. “Next year I will take my exams and start to<br />
study at university.” Though his future is brighter, the<br />
dark memories still haunt Daniel. “I can’t <strong>for</strong>get what<br />
I saw.”<br />
Mwindo (age 13) spent three years in the militia in the<br />
Democratic Republic of Congo. His job was to make<br />
marks with a razor blade on the arms and <strong>for</strong>eheads<br />
of new recruits, a ritual that was believed to protect<br />
the soldiers from bullets. Mwindo also learned how to<br />
use guns. In a fight with other insurgents in the <strong>for</strong>est,<br />
he killed a man. Two of his friends were killed in the<br />
battle and were buried in the <strong>for</strong>est.<br />
Mwindo now lives at a <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported centre <strong>for</strong><br />
demobilised child soldiers. Here he receives medical<br />
and psychological care. The centre also helps to<br />
reunite children with their families and reintegrate<br />
them into their communities.<br />
With your support, <strong>UNICEF</strong> continues to work to<br />
demobilise all child soliders.<br />
“Usually we would go<br />
underground at 7am, staying<br />
there until the next morning.”<br />
“I am happy to be out of the army.<br />
I am too young.”<br />
Please help protect more children, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve<br />
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The right to education <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
EDUCATION<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> works worldwide <strong>for</strong> every child to go to school<br />
Wonder,12, and her classmate<br />
search <strong>for</strong> countries on a globe<br />
at their school in Liberia.<br />
The <strong>UNICEF</strong>-supported<br />
school has airy classrooms,<br />
playgrounds, solar-powered<br />
electricity, computer rooms,<br />
a clinic and a cafeteria, where<br />
students are served a free lunch.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
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In 2011<br />
Every child has the right to education, yet more than 67 million<br />
children do not have the opportunity to go to primary school.<br />
Your support helps us to change children’s lives by:<br />
building schools<br />
providing clean water and toilets in schools<br />
training teachers<br />
supplying textbooks and stationery.<br />
“Ending the cycle of poverty <strong>for</strong><br />
children, their families and their<br />
communities begins with education.”<br />
Anthony Lake, Executive Director, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
PAKISTAN : A THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE<br />
Najo, 10, raises her hand to answer a question at a <strong>UNICEF</strong>supported<br />
learning centre in a camp <strong>for</strong> people displaced<br />
by the flooding in Sindh, southern Pakistan. In 2011, nearly<br />
70,000 flood-affected children went to school at <strong>UNICEF</strong>supported<br />
centres in Sindh.<br />
Please help more children go to school, visit unicef.org.uk/achieve<br />
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The right to education <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Schools <strong>for</strong> Africa<br />
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, one child in three does not get the chance to go<br />
to school, leaving them trapped behind a wall of ignorance, poverty<br />
and discrimination.<br />
Schools <strong>for</strong> Africa is a partnership between <strong>UNICEF</strong> and the Nelson Mandela<br />
Foundation that aims to benefit more than 8 million vulnerable children in<br />
11 of Africa’s poorest countries. Already Schools <strong>for</strong> Africa has provided better<br />
education <strong>for</strong> 5.5 million children, trained 115,000 teachers, and improved<br />
classrooms in more than 1,100 schools across Africa.<br />
In 2011, Road to Awareness, Starwood Hotels and Resorts employee<br />
fundraising scheme, enabled over 1,500 children to complete primary school<br />
in South Africa. <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s partnership with IKEA also supported Schools <strong>for</strong><br />
Africa in Niger, Madagascar, Mali, Burkina Faso and South Africa.<br />
Our <strong>UK</strong> supporters are providing the most disadvantaged children in Africa<br />
with a brighter future.<br />
“Going to school<br />
is good. I can<br />
help my mother.<br />
She asks me to<br />
read letters and<br />
count money.”<br />
Manjo, 13,<br />
Madagascar<br />
Starwood employees take on some of the most famous climbs of the Tour de France<br />
to raise money <strong>for</strong> children.<br />
“We need your help to ensure that millions of children<br />
in Africa have an education and a better future.”<br />
Nelson Mandela<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
WORKS FOR CHILDREN<br />
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Haiti lessons<br />
In January 2010, a massive earthquake hit the Caribbean nation of Haiti.<br />
The disaster destroyed or damaged nearly 4,000 schools, stopping education<br />
<strong>for</strong> 2.5 million children. (See also Emergencies, page 10)<br />
Thanks to our supporters, <strong>UNICEF</strong> was able to respond rapidly and effectively.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> rapidly established more than 1,600 tent schools to get children back<br />
to school and re-establish a normal routine to help children cope with loss<br />
and disruption.<br />
We then began to work on a more lasting response, constructing 190 schools<br />
by the end of 2011. More than 80,000 children now have lessons in these<br />
more permanent quake-proof structures. We have also trained 500 pre-school<br />
teachers and provided 750,000 children and more than 15,000 teachers with<br />
school materials.<br />
A girl smiles outside her new classroom<br />
at Mamalu School in Port au Prince, Haiti.<br />
The school was destroyed in the 2010<br />
earthquake, but is one of 190 rebuilt by<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> by the end of 2011.<br />
“I can see what is being<br />
accomplished and what<br />
challenges remain.”<br />
Champion golfer and<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> Ambassador Rory McIlroy<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/haitigallery<br />
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The right to a voice <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
VOICE<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> working worldwide <strong>for</strong> every child’s voice to be heard<br />
A girl smashes rocks at a mine<br />
in the Democratic Republic of<br />
Congo. She earns about £2 a day,<br />
enough to buy some rice and<br />
vegetables <strong>for</strong> her family. <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
is working to get children out of<br />
the mines. The younger children<br />
get the chance to go to school,<br />
while adolescents above 16 years<br />
old are given skills training such as<br />
carpentry or mechanics.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
WORKS FOR CHILDREN
In 2011<br />
Every child has the right to a voice on matters that affect them and to<br />
have their views taken seriously. Without a voice, children suffer in silence.<br />
This is wrong.<br />
Your support helps <strong>UNICEF</strong> amplify children’s voices.<br />
giving children a say in decisions that affect their lives<br />
ensuring that children know about their rights<br />
promoting children’s participation so that programmes meet their needs<br />
helping to ensure that children can talk about their experiences.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/manilastory<br />
REYNOLD : LIFE ON THE STREETS OF MANILA<br />
Reynold (left, age 10) is unable to go to<br />
school becauee he has to sell scraps and<br />
beg on the streets of Manila, Philippines,<br />
to buy food <strong>for</strong> his brothers Arnold (9) and<br />
Rico (2). The boys live under an old cart<br />
on the edge of a busy market.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> works around the world to get<br />
children like Reynold off the streets and<br />
into a safe place. We help to provide<br />
children with a place to wash, to have a<br />
decent meal, to get medicine and to have<br />
the chance to play with other children.<br />
Please help more children to have a voice, visit unicef.org.uk/achieve<br />
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VOICE<br />
The right to a voice <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
I can play too<br />
“<strong>Children</strong> with disabilities have<br />
the same rights as all children,<br />
and they deserve the same chance<br />
to make the most of their lives<br />
and to make their voices heard.”<br />
Anthony Lake, <strong>UNICEF</strong> Executive Director.<br />
<strong>Children</strong> with disabilities are among the most<br />
marginalised and excluded groups. In many countries,<br />
they are routinely denied access to health, education and<br />
social services. <strong>Children</strong> with disabilities are often excluded<br />
from opportunities to participate in their communities, and<br />
are more vulnerable to violence and abuse. Without a voice,<br />
they suffer in silence.<br />
There are more than 1.5 million children with disabilities in<br />
Central and Eastern Europe. These children are commonly<br />
locked up in institutions or hidden away in their homes.<br />
They are often denied their basic right to learn and don’t get<br />
the chance to play with their peers. <strong>UNICEF</strong> is committed<br />
to change this.<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> organised the first-ever regional<br />
conference to promote inclusive education <strong>for</strong> children with<br />
disabilities, attended by representatives from 20 countries<br />
in Central and Eastern Europe.<br />
Nemanja (left, age 6) and his<br />
friend hold up their drawings at<br />
nursery school in Novi Sad, Serbia.<br />
Nemanja was born with hearing<br />
problems. His nursery is one of<br />
the first to accept disabled children<br />
as part of a new law integrating<br />
disabled children into mainstream<br />
schools. Nemanja is the only child<br />
in his class with special needs.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> provides support <strong>for</strong><br />
pre-schools in Serbia and <strong>for</strong> the<br />
inclusion of disabled children in<br />
mainstream education.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
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<strong>Children</strong> mean business<br />
In November 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> and<br />
partners launched <strong>Children</strong>’s Rights<br />
and Business Principles, the first<br />
comprehensive set of principles to<br />
guide companies on the actions they<br />
can take in the workplace, marketplace<br />
and community to respect and support<br />
children’s rights.<br />
<strong>Children</strong> were at the heart of shaping<br />
the principles, which took into account<br />
the views of 600 businesses and more<br />
than 2,000 children in 10 countries.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s corporate partners such<br />
as IKEA and M&S are helping to<br />
support children’s health, education<br />
and welfare in some of the poorest<br />
and most marginalised communities in<br />
the world.<br />
“<strong>Children</strong> are not always visible in<br />
society and may not have the<br />
opportunity to participate in<br />
decisions that affect them.”<br />
David McLoughlin, <strong>UNICEF</strong> India<br />
Child well-being in the <strong>UK</strong><br />
In 2011 <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
commissioned<br />
comparative research<br />
into child well-being,<br />
inequality and<br />
materialism. The<br />
research compared<br />
the experiences of<br />
250 children and families in the <strong>UK</strong>,<br />
Sweden and Spain. The research<br />
found that children in the <strong>UK</strong> wanted<br />
quality time with their parents, but that<br />
parents often struggled to spend time<br />
with their children. It also showed that<br />
children and parents in the <strong>UK</strong> feel<br />
trapped in a ’materialistic culture’.<br />
The report gained headline news as it<br />
was published just after a number of<br />
riots in English cities and there was<br />
much discussion about young people’s<br />
motivations and behaviour. At the same<br />
time, we continued to call <strong>for</strong> financial<br />
support <strong>for</strong> families living in poverty, as<br />
well <strong>for</strong> promotion of the living wage.<br />
We also raised concern about the<br />
impact of cuts on children and youth<br />
services. Our evidence fed into the<br />
political response to young people’s<br />
involvement in the August riots.<br />
Peace in Paris<br />
In 2011 five more nations signed the<br />
Paris Commitments, pledging to do<br />
everything they can to protect children<br />
from being <strong>for</strong>ced into conflict. The<br />
inclusion of Angola, Armenia, Bosnia<br />
and Herzegovina, Costa Rica and San<br />
Marino means that 100 nations have<br />
now committed to ending child<br />
participation in war.<br />
Since 2005, <strong>UNICEF</strong> and partners have<br />
supported at least 35,000 children<br />
who have been released or escaped<br />
from armed <strong>for</strong>ces in the Democratic<br />
Republic of Congo alone.<br />
“If we don’t protect the children,<br />
how are we going to stand be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
them as leaders, as friends?”<br />
Grace, <strong>for</strong>mer child soldier<br />
Rosie* was abducted from<br />
her village in southern Sudan<br />
by the LRA. “On the<br />
way, they separated the<br />
men and killed them.<br />
They said if we tried<br />
to escape they would<br />
kill us.” Rosie was<br />
held captive <strong>for</strong> two<br />
years and her leg was<br />
shattered in crossfire<br />
during a battle. With<br />
UNCEF support,<br />
Rosie has been<br />
reunited with<br />
her family.<br />
* name changed<br />
to protect identity<br />
Anita, 15, from a poverty striken caste in West Bengal,<br />
India, resisted child marriage to continue her studies.<br />
Our report on child well-being in Europe made<br />
front-page news.<br />
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CLIMATE CHANGE<br />
Climate change is<br />
the biggest threat to<br />
child survival in the<br />
21st century.<br />
<strong>Children</strong> are<br />
threatened by lack<br />
of food and water,<br />
increasing disease,<br />
and more frequent<br />
and severe storms<br />
and floods.<br />
Climate proof children<br />
<strong>Children</strong> are the least responsible<br />
<strong>for</strong> climate change, but the most<br />
vulnerable to its impacts.<br />
More than 15,000 people joined <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
<strong>UK</strong>’s Get <strong>Children</strong> Climate Ready<br />
campaign calling <strong>for</strong> innovative sources<br />
of new finance to help children cope<br />
with the impacts of climate change. In<br />
November, we attended the UN Climate<br />
Change Conference in Durban to push<br />
the <strong>UK</strong> Government to take action <strong>for</strong><br />
children. The Conference agreed to<br />
create the Green Climate Fund.<br />
More than 15,000<br />
people called <strong>for</strong><br />
the <strong>UK</strong> Government<br />
to help get children<br />
ready. The photo<br />
petition showed<br />
how we might need<br />
to evolve if we<br />
don’t act now.<br />
Day <strong>for</strong> (Climate) Change<br />
More than 2,000 <strong>UK</strong> schools took<br />
part in Day <strong>for</strong> Change, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
<strong>UK</strong>’s annual schools’ fundraising<br />
event. Schools raised £155,000 to help<br />
protect children in Guyana from the<br />
effects of climate change.<br />
Guyanese children are already<br />
experiencing climate change with<br />
more frequent floods and droughts.<br />
The money will help <strong>UNICEF</strong> to<br />
install rainwater harvesting systems<br />
in schools, build local health centres,<br />
improve the ‘cold chain’ to keep<br />
vaccines safe and effective, and train<br />
young people to in<strong>for</strong>m their local<br />
communities about climate change.<br />
The children at Ballinderry Primary School in<br />
Lisburn, Northern Ireland, dress up <strong>for</strong> Day <strong>for</strong><br />
(Climate) Change. Some went as princesses, some<br />
as animals, others painted their faces. Everyone<br />
took part from Reception age to teachers.<br />
“It is important that our children<br />
realise they can help and support<br />
others around the world by having<br />
a fun-filled day.” Mrs Rosca, Teacher<br />
At the Isle of Wight Festival,<br />
singer-songwriter Eliza Doolittle<br />
supported our call to provide a<br />
lifeline <strong>for</strong> children affected by<br />
climate change.<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/climatekid<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
WORKS FOR CHILDREN<br />
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Climate Positive<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> raised more than £250,000 <strong>for</strong> Climate<br />
Positive, our initiative to raise funds to help children adapt<br />
and become more resilient to climate change.<br />
Projects supported by Climate Positive in 2011 included:<br />
building cyclone-proof schools in Madagascar<br />
rainwater harvesting in Mozambique.<br />
LIFE : Angita<br />
In 2008 Angita, age 9, lost her school when<br />
Cyclone Ivan ripped through her village in north-east<br />
Madagascar. Only a shell of a classroom remained<br />
where her school once stood. Angita was terrified.<br />
A year and a half later and Angita’s school life has been<br />
trans<strong>for</strong>med. She now goes to a <strong>UNICEF</strong> eco-friendly<br />
and cyclone proofed school. Angita explains that she<br />
likes her new school a lot more than the previous one<br />
“because the new classroom is beautiful”. The school<br />
has been built to withstand cyclones and has new<br />
water and sanitation facilities, ensuring the children<br />
have clean water throughout the school day.<br />
In February 2011, another cyclone hit her village.<br />
Angita and her family sought shelter in the school,<br />
now the safest place in the village.<br />
A non cyclone-proof school destroyed by Cyclone Giovanna in February 2012.<br />
“With these new classrooms<br />
the children are safe.”<br />
Botovola, Angita’s mum<br />
All of the cyclone-proof schools <strong>for</strong> children built by <strong>UNICEF</strong> in the area remained intact.<br />
Please help more children affected by climate change, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve<br />
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INTERNATIONAL INSPIRATION<br />
LONDON 2012<br />
International Inspiration<br />
is the international<br />
social legacy of the London 2012 Olympic<br />
and Paralympic Games. It aims to enrich the<br />
lives of 12 million children and young people<br />
in 20 countries through physical education,<br />
sport and play.<br />
To date, International Inspiration has reached<br />
13 million children and 120,000 coaches.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> works with <strong>UK</strong> Sport and the<br />
British Council to deliver this ambitious<br />
project, supported by the London Organising<br />
Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic<br />
Games (LOCOG), the <strong>UK</strong><br />
Government, the British Olympic<br />
Association and the British<br />
Paralympics Association.<br />
Swim safe<br />
in Bangladesh<br />
Every year, around 17,000 children<br />
die from drowning in flood-prone<br />
Bangladesh. Drowning is responsible<br />
<strong>for</strong> one in three of all deaths of children<br />
age 5 to 9.<br />
International Inspiration trains<br />
swimming instructors from local<br />
communities, giving them the skills<br />
to teach children how to swim, tread<br />
water, and rescue somebody who<br />
is drowning.<br />
So far, more than 80,000 children have<br />
learned survival swimming.<br />
“Now all my friends want to take<br />
swimming lessons.” Parvez, age 12<br />
International Inspiration has been integrated<br />
into the Government of India’s ‘sport <strong>for</strong> all’<br />
initiative, working with 1.5 million children in<br />
rural communities across India.<br />
Young children learn survival swimming lesson in<br />
Narsingdi, central Bangladesh.<br />
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Putting PE<br />
in Mozambique<br />
International Inspiration’s work has<br />
seen sport becoming a compulsory<br />
part of the school curriculum with<br />
more than 200,000 children now<br />
regularly taking part in PE and sport<br />
in Mozambique.<br />
It has trained more than 3,000 teachers<br />
to deliver PE in 750 primary schools,<br />
helping to increase primary enrolment<br />
by more than 75 per cent.<br />
“I never want to see a child sitting out.”<br />
Domingos Jaime, Coach<br />
Tackling gangs in<br />
Trinidad and Tobago<br />
International Inspiration develops<br />
leadership skills, respect, tolerance<br />
and teamwork. In Pinto Road, an<br />
area known <strong>for</strong> gang related violence,<br />
International Inspiration is using sport<br />
to build connections between young<br />
people and to tackle violence.<br />
“This programme has helped me<br />
feel like I’m able to have a positive<br />
influence on others.”<br />
Sheriece, age 16<br />
Playing together<br />
in Jordan<br />
International Inspiration is using<br />
the power of sport to challenge<br />
discrimination in Jordan and provide all<br />
children with the chance to play sport,<br />
focusing on children with disabilities, girls<br />
and refugees.<br />
Over 4,200 children now play sport<br />
regularly, more than half are girls and<br />
many have disabilities. <strong>UNICEF</strong> has<br />
also helped create 15 hubs, where 110<br />
young coaches have been trained and<br />
lead sport.<br />
“This is an Olympic and Paralympic<br />
legacy to be proud of.”<br />
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, <strong>UK</strong> Paralympic athlete<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/tandt<br />
<strong>Children</strong> play with sports kits in Chiputo,<br />
eastern Mozambique.<br />
Please help more children have a chance to play, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve<br />
Young people take part in the first 5k relay<br />
road race in Mayaro, Trinidad.<br />
Students play and make friends over a<br />
game of catch in Amman.<br />
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WORK IN THE <strong>UK</strong><br />
Baby Friendly Initiative<br />
Breastfeeding has a fundamental impact on<br />
the health of children and mothers.<br />
Breastfeeding helps reduce infant mortality,<br />
hospitalisation <strong>for</strong> preventable disease and rates<br />
of childhood diabetes and obesity, as well<br />
as adult conditions such as coeliac and<br />
cardiovascular disease, and also reduces<br />
risk of breast cancer and adult diabetes.<br />
Not being breastfed has an impact on IQ<br />
and educational outcomes <strong>for</strong> the child. 1<br />
No other health behaviour has such a<br />
broad-spectrum and long-lasting impact on<br />
population health, with the potential to improve<br />
life chances, health and well-being.<br />
Recognising that the support mothers receive<br />
in maternity hospitals is crucial to successful<br />
breastfeeding, the World Health Organization<br />
and <strong>UNICEF</strong> have a joint, worldwide<br />
programme – the Baby<br />
Friendly Initiative.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> runs the Baby Friendly Initiative in<br />
the <strong>UK</strong> and has accreditation programmes to<br />
reward high standards of care in maternity<br />
hospitals, community health services and<br />
universities that educate midwives and health<br />
visitors. The Baby Friendly Initiative is entirely<br />
self-supported by the Initiative’s own activities,<br />
without impacting on the money that <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
<strong>UK</strong> delivers <strong>for</strong> <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s programmes <strong>for</strong><br />
children around the world.<br />
There are now 101 facilities in the <strong>UK</strong> that have<br />
full Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation. During<br />
2011, a record 217 hospitals, health centres<br />
and universities received a Baby Friendly award<br />
(158 accreditations and 59 certificates of<br />
commitment). The new accreditations mean<br />
that approximately 150,000 babies were born<br />
in areas where care practices around<br />
breastfeeding improved during 2011. We also<br />
trained more than 1,500 health professionals in<br />
the <strong>UK</strong>, which will lead to a higher standard of<br />
service to new mothers and babies.<br />
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The impact of the Baby Friendly<br />
Initiative was shown by the<br />
2010 Infant Feeding Survey,<br />
which revealed a 5 per cent rise<br />
in breastfeeding initiation rates.<br />
More babies than ever are<br />
being breastfed in the <strong>UK</strong>.<br />
Please help children in the <strong>UK</strong>, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve
Rights Respecting Schools<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> champions child-centred<br />
education based on the UN Convention<br />
on the Rights of the Child. In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
<strong>UK</strong> continued to expand the Rights<br />
Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) scheme<br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>UK</strong> schools, reaching 10 per cent of schools across the<br />
<strong>UK</strong>. The Award recognises a school’s achievement in<br />
embedding the Convention at the heart of a school’s culture<br />
and ethos to improve well-being and develop every child’s<br />
talents and abilities to their fullest potential.<br />
In 2011, the number of Rights Respecting Schools<br />
increased from 2,000 to 3,000. Over 800,000 children in<br />
the <strong>UK</strong> now attend schools that are developing a rightsrespecting<br />
approach.<br />
Child Rights Partners<br />
Child Rights Partners is inspired by the UN Convention<br />
on the Rights of the Child and aims at realising and<br />
embedding a child rights-based approach at the local level<br />
throughout the <strong>UK</strong>, thereby improving well-being and<br />
outcomes <strong>for</strong> children and young people. In 2011, eight<br />
local authorities with some of the highest rates of child<br />
poverty in Europe became child rights partners. They<br />
committed to put children’s rights at the heart of their<br />
practice in order to tackle well-being and child poverty.<br />
Below: David (age 12) is a member of the Seen and Heard group at St Kentigern’s<br />
Academy in West Lothian. The group’s 2011 film on child poverty in the <strong>UK</strong> won<br />
a Rotary International Young Citizen’s Award. The film captures how it feels <strong>for</strong> a<br />
young person living below the poverty line.<br />
“If there was anything I could<br />
change about my life, it would<br />
probably be the way people think<br />
about people in poverty.” David, 12<br />
Please help children in the <strong>UK</strong>, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve<br />
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Where your money goes<br />
MONEY<br />
Where we work and priorities <strong>for</strong> children<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> depends entirely on voluntary<br />
contributions to support <strong>UNICEF</strong> programmes <strong>for</strong><br />
children worldwide. We receive no money from the<br />
United Nations budget.<br />
Our total income <strong>for</strong> 2011 was £95 million, which<br />
allowed us to make £75.7 million available <strong>for</strong><br />
programmes <strong>for</strong> children. Of this, £62.4<br />
million was <strong>for</strong> emergencies, specific<br />
programmes or countries chosen by<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> donors, £8.4 million <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong>’s core programmes <strong>for</strong> children<br />
in the greatest need, and £4.8 million <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s advocacy and education programmes in the<br />
<strong>UK</strong>, including those of the Baby Friendly Initiative.<br />
15<br />
31<br />
14<br />
For every £1<br />
you give to <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
Income by source<br />
from 2007–11 (£million)<br />
41<br />
4<br />
5<br />
22p<br />
2p<br />
76p<br />
programmes <strong>for</strong> children<br />
administration<br />
to raise another pound<br />
Based on average over the last 5 years.<br />
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Nimco and her children travelled <strong>for</strong><br />
15 days be<strong>for</strong>e finding sanctuary at a<br />
camp in Galkayo, Somalia. Muhammad<br />
(age 4) was malnourished on arrival, but he<br />
is slowly gaining weight thanks to <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
supplies of special high-calorie food.<br />
Saraban, 9, smiles at a<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> supported<br />
programme in West<br />
Bengal, India, where<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> works to tackle<br />
child malnutrition.<br />
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This map and table show where <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> committed money in 2011<br />
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32<br />
45 3<br />
23<br />
18 13 45<br />
12<br />
24<br />
30<br />
Key to map colours<br />
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40<br />
36<br />
47<br />
33<br />
10<br />
42<br />
43<br />
50<br />
48<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> global programmes<br />
in 155 countries supported<br />
via <strong>UNICEF</strong> headquarters<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> programmes<br />
directly supported<br />
by <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
6<br />
46<br />
37<br />
11<br />
20<br />
29<br />
25<br />
49<br />
39<br />
1<br />
34<br />
16<br />
21<br />
41<br />
2<br />
44<br />
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The map and table show money committed in 2010 only.<br />
This report also includes achievements in 2010 where we<br />
transferred money in a previous year.<br />
Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in<br />
Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan.<br />
The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been<br />
agreed upon by the parties. The boundaries and names<br />
shown and the designations used on this map do not imply<br />
official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.<br />
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19<br />
1 Afghanistan £32,000 Emergency<br />
2 Bangladesh £1,050,000 Child survival, Education, Child<br />
protection<br />
3 Benin £55,000 Emergency, Education<br />
4 Bolivia £39,000 Child protection<br />
5 Brazil £248,000 Education<br />
6 Bulgaria £158,000 Child protection<br />
7 Cambodia £32,000 Child protection<br />
8 Congo, Democratic Republic of £809,000 Child protection,<br />
Emergency<br />
<br />
9 East Timor £81,000 Education<br />
10 Egypt £240,000 Child survival, Child protection<br />
11 Ethiopia £1,375,000 Child survival, Child protection, Emergency<br />
12 Gabon £96,000 HIV<br />
13 Ghana £121,000 Education<br />
14 Guyana £135,000 Education<br />
15 Haiti £1,027,000 Education, HIV, Emergency<br />
16 India £496,000 Child survival, Education<br />
17 Indonesia £299,000 HIV<br />
18 Ivory Coast £98,000 Emergency<br />
19 Japan £317,000 Emergency<br />
20 Kenya £3,200,000 Emergency <br />
21 Kyrgyzstan £217,000 Emergency <br />
22 Laos £136,000 Child survival<br />
23 Liberia £1,203,000 Child survival, Emergency <br />
24 Libya £130,000 Emergency <br />
25 Madagascar £396,000 Child survival, Education, HIV<br />
26 Malaysia £31,000 Child protection<br />
27 Mauritania £179,000 Education<br />
28 Morocco £5,000 Education<br />
29 Mozambique £260,000 Child survival, Education<br />
30 Namibia £30,000 Emergency<br />
31 Nicaragua £32,000 Emergency<br />
32 Nigeria £5,000 Education<br />
33 Occupied Palestinian Territories £33,000 Child survival<br />
34 Pakistan £706,000 Education, Emergency<br />
35 Philippines £64,000 Emergency<br />
36 Romania £135,000 Child protection<br />
37 Rwanda £59,000 Education<br />
38 Senegal £315,000 Child survival, Child protection<br />
39 Somalia £29,785,000 Child survival, Emergency <br />
40 South Africa £311,000 Education, HIV<br />
41 Sri Lanka £30,000 Emergency<br />
42 Sudan, North £99,000 Child survival<br />
43 Sudan, South £359,000 Child survival, Emergency<br />
44 Thailand £32,000 Policy and Child participation<br />
45 Togo £90,000 Child survival<br />
46 Turkey £78,000 Education<br />
47 Uganda £380,000 Child survival, Education<br />
48 Ukraine £68,000 HIV<br />
49 Yemen £6,215,000 Child survival, Education, Emergency <br />
50 Zimbabwe £600,000 Emergency <br />
includes support from the <strong>UK</strong> Government<br />
In addition, we committed £8,146,000 to <strong>UNICEF</strong> global programmes,<br />
£4,382,000 to our regional work in Eastern and Southern Africa,<br />
£659,000 to our work in the Middle East and North Africa, and<br />
£203,000 match funded by the Gates Foundation. We also spent<br />
£506,000 on International Inspiration, part of the international social<br />
legacy of the London 2012 Olympics. At the end of 2011, we had yet<br />
to send £5,048,000.<br />
Please help more children, visit unicef.org.uk/ achieve<br />
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THANK YOU<br />
Thank you to all our individual supporters, runners, trekkers,<br />
schools, campaigners, event organisers, community fundraisers,<br />
corporate partners, trusts, foundations and grant-making bodies<br />
who helped us achieve so much <strong>for</strong> children in 2011.<br />
Youth Champions and campaigners<br />
Oyinlola Akinde<br />
Daniel Baron<br />
Jack Baskerville<br />
Frances Bernhardt<br />
Jo Bracken<br />
Hanna Coakley<br />
Skye Curtis<br />
Linda Epstein<br />
Robert Graham<br />
Rachel Hall<br />
Daisy Haywood<br />
Luke Hughes<br />
Gregory James<br />
Emily Midddleton<br />
Ash Nair<br />
Shereen Farooque Patel<br />
Harry Phinda<br />
Emily Reed<br />
Katie Reeves<br />
Sara Saleh<br />
Eesa Siddiqui<br />
Ruby Smith<br />
Micha Vidot<br />
Trusts, foundations and grant making bodies<br />
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat International<br />
Band Aid Trust<br />
The Bascule Charitable Trust<br />
The <strong>Children</strong>’s Investment Fund Foundation<br />
City Bridge Trust<br />
City Charitable Trust<br />
Constance Travis Charitable Trust<br />
Evan Cornish Foundation<br />
Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission<br />
HSE Catherwood Family Charitable Trust<br />
The Ingram Trust<br />
Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee<br />
Jersey Overseas Aid Commission<br />
Kate MacAskill Foundation<br />
Kwok Charitable Trust<br />
The Lake Foundation<br />
The Marr-Munning Trust<br />
The Myristica Trust<br />
Open Society Foundation<br />
Popli Khalatbari Charitable Foundation<br />
Rowan Charitable Trust<br />
World Jewish Relief<br />
Global Guardians<br />
Global Guardians are supporters<br />
who have committed to make an<br />
annual gift to enable children to<br />
survive and thrive.<br />
Mr and Mrs Allan<br />
George and Donna Bompas<br />
Mr Patsy Byrne<br />
Mrs Karina Choudhrie<br />
Kevin Fenlon<br />
Professor Janet Garton<br />
Lady Haskins<br />
Sue and Clive Heavens<br />
Stephen and Tiina Ives<br />
Dr Robert and Mrs Adrianne Ker<br />
Adam and Elizabeth Knight<br />
Christina Knudsen<br />
Alan and Ann Leslie<br />
Mark and Rachel Makepeace<br />
Peter and Barbara Rogers<br />
Robert Scott<br />
Peter and Sue Shipp<br />
Jane and Jonathan Styles<br />
Peter and Jan Winslow<br />
Golfer and <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
Ambassador Rory McIlroy<br />
visits one of the nearly<br />
130 new earthquake-proof<br />
schools built by <strong>UNICEF</strong> in<br />
Port au Prince, Haiti.<br />
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A boy enjoys a sports<br />
festival in Tanzania.<br />
He is one of more than<br />
13 million children reached<br />
by International Inspiration.<br />
Our corporate partners<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Ambassadors, <strong>UNICEF</strong> Goodwill Ambassadors, Ambassadors and Friends<br />
of International Inspiration, and high-profile supporters<br />
Lord Attenborough, CBE<br />
Duncan Bannatyne, OBE<br />
Boris Becker<br />
David Beckham, OBE<br />
Martin Bell, OBE<br />
Björk<br />
Orlando Bloom<br />
Charley Boorman<br />
Rob Brydon<br />
Mark Cavendish, MBE<br />
Paul Clark<br />
Jamie Cullum<br />
Cat Deeley<br />
Matt Dawson, MBE<br />
James Ellington<br />
Sir Alex Ferguson, CBE, and the<br />
Manchester United team<br />
Ralph Fiennes<br />
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, DBE<br />
Louise Hazel<br />
Sir Chris Hoy<br />
Eddie Izzard<br />
Colin Jackson, CBE<br />
Jemima Khan<br />
Lemar<br />
Denise Lewis, OBE<br />
Dame Ellen MacArthur, DBE<br />
Ewan McGregor<br />
Elle Macpherson<br />
Russ Malkin<br />
Sir Roger Moore, KBE<br />
James Nesbitt<br />
Andrew O’Hagan<br />
Sir Matthew Pinsent, CBE<br />
Oscar Pistorius<br />
The Puppini Sisters<br />
Lord Puttnam, Kt, CBE<br />
Rankin<br />
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE<br />
Simon Reeve<br />
Claudia Schiffer<br />
Michael Sheen<br />
Jon Snow<br />
Sharleen Spiteri<br />
Trudie Styler<br />
Robbie Williams<br />
With special thanks to HRH The Duke<br />
and Duchess of Cambridge<br />
UNITED FOR CHILDREN<br />
Other supporters<br />
Mr D Bannatyne, OBE<br />
Mr & Mrs Bendahan<br />
Dr D Denvir<br />
The Haghani Family<br />
Mr & Mrs A Howard<br />
The J Isaacs Charitable Trust<br />
Mr & Mrs Kawkabani<br />
Mr J Kinder<br />
Medicor Foundation Liechtenstein<br />
Mrs G Milner<br />
Mr A & Mrs M Mittal<br />
Mr & Mrs T Natsis<br />
Mr C Rokos<br />
Lord M Saatchi<br />
Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation<br />
The Wheatley Family<br />
Please help more children, visit unicef.org.uk/achieve<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> is deeply grateful to the 185 supporters who left a legacy of life <strong>for</strong> the<br />
children of the world through gifts in their Wills in 2011. We applaud their <strong>for</strong>esight<br />
and leadership in protecting future generations of children.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />
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HELP SAHEL NOW<br />
Emergency in West Africa<br />
In 2012, <strong>UNICEF</strong> is profoundly concerned<br />
about the more than one million children under<br />
the age of 5 who are going to need specialist<br />
treatment in feeding centres because of lifethreatening<br />
severe malnutrition in the Sahel<br />
region of West and Central Africa. If we do not<br />
reach them now, one in two could die.<br />
Thanks to supporters, <strong>UNICEF</strong> has already<br />
helped to treat more than 300,000 severely<br />
malnourished children under the age of 5 since<br />
the start of the year. But we need your help to<br />
reach every child.<br />
The plight of the children of the Sahel is<br />
exacerbated by the effects of climate change,<br />
as well as limited access to health care,<br />
clean water, education and protection<br />
services. As ever, our emergency work<br />
dovetails with our long-term programmes<br />
to deliver lasting change <strong>for</strong> children.<br />
“The children at risk today in the Sahel are not mere statistics.<br />
They are individual girls and boys, and each has the right to<br />
survive. We must not fail them. The challenge is great and the<br />
window is closing.” Tony Lake, <strong>UNICEF</strong> Executive Director<br />
Please donate, campaign or raise money to<br />
help <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s work to save and trans<strong>for</strong>m<br />
children’s lives around the world.<br />
LIFE STORY : Alimou<br />
Halima lives with her husband and two<br />
children Alimou (8 months) and Ismael<br />
(2 years) at a refugee camp in Niger, close<br />
to the Mali border.<br />
“I fled Mali in a panic following violence.<br />
We walked 30 miles and had nothing to<br />
eat. Alimou became ill very quickly with<br />
diarrhoea and vomiting.”<br />
Alimou weighed just 5 kg and was<br />
severely malnourished when he arrived at<br />
the camp. Thanks to <strong>UNICEF</strong> supporters,<br />
he has received life-saving food three<br />
times a day. Alimnou is now 7 kg, but still<br />
needs to gain more weight. Halima says,<br />
“I feel better now because Alimou is also<br />
better. I am so relieved. He now plays<br />
with his brother.”<br />
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Frank and Pat Thorn, Surrey<br />
Frank and Pat Thorn had been committed<br />
supporters of <strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>for</strong> a number of years<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e they decided together to leave gifts<br />
to <strong>UNICEF</strong> in their Wills.<br />
Frank and Pat Thorn<br />
In 2000 Frank explained that their decision<br />
to pledge these gifts stemmed from his career in education<br />
as well as his experiences travelling with other <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
volunteers to Sudan and Kenya.<br />
Frank explains his motivation: “It is very reassuring to feel<br />
that because of my intense interest in the work of <strong>UNICEF</strong><br />
with children worldwide, that even after I have passed<br />
away, some of my interest will be preserved by a donation<br />
towards their work.”<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> was extremely saddened by Frank’s death in 2001.<br />
We lost an invaluable supporter who had generously and<br />
energetically given his time to help raise money, as well as<br />
heighten awareness of <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s work. Pat continues to be<br />
an active supporter.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> Inspired Gifts<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> Inspired Gifts are<br />
real, life-saving and life-changing items<br />
that we supply to children and families<br />
around the world. Here are some of<br />
the Inspired Gifts that our supporters<br />
bought in 2011 to improve the lives of<br />
vulnerable children:<br />
School kits <strong>for</strong> more than<br />
1,600 children<br />
Mosquito nets to protect 2,600<br />
families against malaria<br />
Measles vaccines to protect over<br />
24,600 children against this killer<br />
disease.<br />
In return, you receive a personalised gift<br />
card or eGreeting. Please visit:<br />
unicef.org.uk/inspiredgifts<br />
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OBJECTIVES<br />
2012<br />
We aim to raise £59.7 million <strong>for</strong> <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s work <strong>for</strong> children.<br />
We aim to raise at least £2.5 million <strong>for</strong> children from our fourth<br />
Soccer Aid celebrity football match and telethon be<strong>for</strong>e the 2012 UEFA<br />
European Championships.<br />
For the London 2012 Olympic Games, we will celebrate the success of<br />
International Inspiration that has used the power of sport to enrich the lives<br />
of more than 13 million children in 20 countries.<br />
We will work to keep the <strong>UK</strong> Government on track to commit 0.7 per cent<br />
of Gross National Income in overseas aid by 2013 and to maintain its<br />
commitment to end child poverty in the <strong>UK</strong> by 2020.<br />
We will call on the <strong>UK</strong> Government to put the needs of children at the heart<br />
of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development and seize the<br />
opportunity to help save and trans<strong>for</strong>m children’s lives.<br />
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Inside back cover<br />
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Sarania, 9, stands in her new<br />
classroom in Port au Prince,<br />
Haiti. The school is one of more<br />
than 190 child friendly and<br />
earthquake-proof schools built<br />
with <strong>UNICEF</strong> assistance since<br />
the earthquake in 2010. Sarania<br />
wants to stay at school so that<br />
she can become a nurse.
<strong>UNICEF</strong> has saved and changed more children’s<br />
lives than any other humanitarian organisation.<br />
Twenty-five years ago, only 10 per cent of the world’s<br />
children were immunised. Today, thanks to <strong>UNICEF</strong>’s<br />
leadership, more than 80 per cent of children are immunised.<br />
In 2011, <strong>UNICEF</strong> helped vaccinate 36 million children.<br />
Each year, immunisation saves the lives of around 2.5 million<br />
children under the age of five.<br />
Thirty-five years ago, fewer than half of all children in the<br />
developing world went to primary school. Now, 90 per cent<br />
benefit from primary education.<br />
Fifty-five years ago, only 10 per cent of the world’s people<br />
had access to safe drinking water. Now, 87 per cent of<br />
people can drink safe water.<br />
How <strong>UNICEF</strong> works <strong>for</strong> every child<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong>’s approach is to use low-cost, highly effective<br />
solutions to trans<strong>for</strong>m children’s lives. The most<br />
disadvantaged children are our priority.<br />
Nine out of 10 <strong>UNICEF</strong> staff members work in the field.<br />
As a leader <strong>for</strong> the world’s children, <strong>UNICEF</strong> has powerful<br />
partnerships with global organisations, governments and<br />
grassroots organisations.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong>’s programmes are long-term, sustainable, focused,<br />
and cost-effective.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> receives no funding from the United Nations budget;<br />
all financial support comes from voluntary contributions.<br />
Front cover:<br />
Jacqueline, 7, lives in a camp <strong>for</strong> earthquake<br />
victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.<br />
She works as a domestic servant, and<br />
does not go to school or own any toys.<br />
Since the earthquake in December 2010,<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> has helped to provide 1.7 million<br />
people with safe water and sanitation,<br />
immunise more than 1.9 million children,<br />
reunited over 1,200 children with their<br />
families, and enabled 720,000 children to<br />
return to school.<br />
We need support so we can help more<br />
children like Jacqueline to get the chance to<br />
go to school and escape a life of poverty.<br />
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<strong>Children</strong> in the poorest communities<br />
will be hit hardest by climate change.<br />
<strong>UNICEF</strong> <strong>UK</strong> is committed to minimising<br />
our environmental impact and reducing<br />
our carbon footprint by at least 5 per<br />
cent per year. Find out more at<br />
www.unicef.org.uk/climatechange<br />
We need you to help us reach every child.<br />
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