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UNICEF (The United Nations' Children's Fund)
Pakistan Flood Disaster
Severe flooding has affected over 20 million people, including nearly 10 million children. Around 1.8 million homes have been seriously damaged or destroyed, leaving millions of people without shelter. This is a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented scale. All five provinces of the country have been affected. With floodwaters spreading and evacuations continuing, the potential for even greater tragedy grows by the minute. Stagnating water and high temperatures are creating perfect conditions for the spread of malaria, acute diarrhoea and cholera. We cannot allow those who were saved from drowning to die of these diseases. UNICEF's response
UNICEF is appealing for £162.5 million to help meet the immediate needs of the most severely affected women and children in Pakistan. Their needs are growing every day and much more funding will be required to support the long term relief effort. UNICEF says, “Our priority is keeping vulnerable children alive as the threat of disease increases. We must prevent the fatal, downward spiral from diarrhoea, to dehydration, to death. Together with partners, UNICEF is scaling up the distribution of clean water to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, and dysentery, which could otherwise kill children who are already weakened by recent events. UNICEF and our partners are reaching over 6 million people with a combination of safe water and water treatment, which includes providing enough clean water for over 2.5 million people every day. Millions more need the same. We are also carrying out polio and measles vaccinations and supplying oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea. We urgently need your support to help protect the rights of all children in Pakistan and to respond on the massive scale that is needed. A donation of £30 could provide vaccinations to protect more than 30 children against killer diseases. Please help UNICEF help children affected by the floods by donating to our emergency appeal now.” And come to our Concert for UNICEF on 30th October 2010.
A baby cries shortly after birth, at a hospital in Sukkur, a city in Sindh Province. The baby's mother lives in a nearby camp for people displaced by flooding. Because she is anaemic, her pregnancy was considered high-risk, and she was referred to the hospital through a UNICEF-supported programme. UNICEF in more detailUNICEF is the United Nations Childrens Fund. UNICEF works with families, communities and governments in more than 190 countries worldwide to protect and promote the rights of all children, working towards achieving the goals set out in the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of the Child. It receives no funding from the United Nations and raises all its funds through its own fund raising efforts. UNICEF is the world’s largest distributer of vaccines to the developing world, protecting millions of children against death from preventable diseases. UNICEF supports governments to build and equip health systems, train health workers and provide food and clean water, towards enabling every child to be healthy. UNICEF helps governments to build schools, train teachers and provide textbooks with the aim of enabling every child to get an education. UNICEF is one of the world’s leading agencies in responding to the world’s major disasters. Currently it is doing all in its power to assist the people of Pakistan in one of the world’s greatest human disasters. Pakistan Flood
Disaster Severe flooding has affected over 20 million people, including nearly 10 million children. Around 1.8 million homes have been seriously damaged or destroyed, leaving millions of people without shelter. This is a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented scale. All five provinces of the country have been affected. With floodwaters spreading and evacuations continuing, the potential for even greater tragedy grows by the minute. Stagnating water and high temperatures are creating perfect conditions for the spread of malaria, acute diarrhoea and cholera. We cannot allow those who were saved from drowning to die of these diseases. UNICEF's
response UNICEF is appealing for £162.5 million to help meet the immediate needs of the most severely affected women and children in Pakistan. Their needs are growing every day and much more funding will be required to support the long term relief effort. UNICEF says, “Our priority is keeping vulnerable children alive as the threat of disease increases. We must prevent the fatal, downward spiral from diarrhoea, to dehydration, to death. Together with partners, UNICEF is scaling up the distribution of clean water to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, and dysentery, which could otherwise kill children who are already weakened by recent events. UNICEF and our partners are reaching over 6 million people with a combination of safe water and water treatment, which includes providing enough clean water for over 2.5 million people every day. Millions more need the same. We are also carrying out polio and measles vaccinations and supplying oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea. We urgently need your support to help protect the rights of all children in Pakistan and to respond on the massive scale that is needed. A donation of £30 could provide vaccinations to protect more than 30 children against killer diseases. Please help UNICEF help children affected by the floods by donating to our emergency appeal now.” And come to our Concert for UNICEF on 30th October 2010. Work of UNICEF
UK Last year UNICEF UK committed £50 million to help children worldwide. For instance UNICEF provided nearly 34 million tetanus vaccines. To protect children from abuse and exploitation, UNICEF supported 12,000 children every month at camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To help children go to school, UNICEF provided basic education for more than 160,000 working children in Bangladesh. Since the launch of UNICEF’s Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign in 2005, the percentage of expectant mothers with HIV receiving treatment to help their babies be born free from the virus has increased from 10 per cent to 45 per cent in low- and middle-income countries. During 2009, UNICEF UK helped children caught in emergencies in 17 countries and regions. Whether it was conflict in Sri Lanka or Sudan, earthquakes and typhoons in Southeast Asia, or malnutrition in East Africa, our supporters enabled UNICEF to respond rapidly and effectively to protect children. The UNICEF Concert (30 October 2010) is presented by
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