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children’s right to childhood CHILDHOOD How UNICEF UK helped Your support helped UNICEF UK: reduce the number of abandoned newborn babies by more than 40 per cent in the last six years in Ukraine, by funding 16 Mother and Child Centres help 934 survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo improve foster care in Bulgaria, aiming to recruit foster parents for 3,000 children provide free basic education for more than 160,000 working children in Bangladesh help to protect 12,000 children every month at camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo and much more … IN FOCUS : CHILD LABOUR IN BANGLADESH “Sometimes I cut my hands and legs on broken glass or tins. I don’t want to do this work.” Aklima, age 13, rubbish dump worker There are nearly 8 million child workers in Bangladesh, many in dangerous work such as brick making or scavenging through rubbish. Low wages and high unemployment means that many families depend on their children’s earnings to survive. Most of these children have lost their childhood, trapped in low skilled, poorly paid jobs that reinforce the vicious cycle of poverty. To put it right, UNICEF has established schools in areas with large populations of working children. The school day is two-and-a-half hours, so that children can continue to support their families. With your support, in 2009 UNICEF UK helped provide free basic education for more than 160,000 working children in Bangladesh. All the children are now able to read and write. We also helped train teachers and provided education materials for over 6,500 centres. Aklima now goes to a UNICEF-supported school in the afternoon. “It’s good to go to school. We study. Everyone sits together. We draw pictures and write Bangla.” UNICEF UK ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 Please help more children be children, visit unicef.org.uk/achieve
Thanks to UNICEF UK supporters, Borka and his mum Natalia found support at a Mother and Child Centre in Kiev, Ukraine. Sohel, age 12, works every day at a bakery in Dhaka to support his family. He is not able to go to school. Lumo [name changed], age 14, is a former child solider. She was forced to carry weapons and stay awake for days at a time. She was raped by a soldier, eventually becoming his ‘wife’. Lumo is now receiving medical and psychological care at a UNICEF-supported centre. IN FOCUS : WAR AND RAPE IN THE CONGO Many thousands of women and child survivors of the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have fled their homes and become separated from their families. They are especially vulnerable to sexual violence and exploitation as well as abduction and recruitment into armed groups. Women and children subjected to rape and sexual violence are at high risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Children abducted by armed groups have not only witnessed violence, killings, torture and abuse; they have also had to participate in such acts against their will. This is a crime. “He took me by force and then escaped to the forest. I cried out in pain until the neighbours heard me and took me to the hospital. But that I don’t remember, I fainted.” Sifa [name changed], age 8, abducted and repeatedly raped by a soldier. Thanks to your support, Sifa has received medical care and counselling. She is traumatised and hurt, barely speaking to anyone. It may be years before she can live a normal life again, but the healing process has begun. “As soon as I feel better, I want to go back home and go to school. My parents cried so much after the attack. I want them to be happy and proud of me,” says Sifa. Please help more children be children, visit unicef.org.uk/achieve UNICEF UK ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 9
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