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Malawi
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(Left-right) Mary Kapalamula, 16, and her sister Sungeni, 11,
do their homework at their home in the Safalao market area
in Ndirande Township on the outskirts of the city of Blantyre.
Their father, brother and uncle were killed by AIDS, while their
mother died of an unknown illness in 1997. Mary, Sungeni and
their sister Mwaiwao, 13, who has a mental disability, were
looked after by their grandmother until her death in 2004.
Now, as the eldest, Mary heads the household, while
Mwaiwao lives with friends. They have been shunned by most
of the family, and live in a small house, where they sleep on
the floor. Mary fears for their safety, because boys have been
pounding on the door in the middle of the night, raising the
spectre of rape or murder. As their situation deteriorates,
they have begun begging for food. Despite their poverty,
both girls go to UNICEF-supported schools. Mary dreams
of becoming a doctor or a teacher.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2005-1385/Nesbitt
France
page 135
A child drawing in primary school classroom in La Varenne
Saint-Hilaire, France.
© UNESCO/Dominique Roger
Japan
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Yuuna Sasaki, 8, photographs Kobuchi Beach, in the city
of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Debris towers behind her.
Yunna is among 14 children participating in a UNICEF
photography workshop in the city. “I won’t be able to forget
the heap of rubble. I photographed it because every piece
holds people’s memories. I don’t want them to be forgotten,”
she said. Ishinomaki’s pre-quake population was 160,826,
but 3,144 of its people died in the tsunami, and 890 are still
missing. Coastal areas essential to the whaling trade and the
cultivation of oysters – sources of livelihood for many residents
– were also destroyed. Severe depopulation is another
challenge for the city.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2265/Pirozzi
New Zealand
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Staff and parents at a Whanau hui or family meeting of
Te Kotuku Kohanga Reo on the Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland,
New Zealand, 2010.
© UNESCO/J. Carlin
British Virgin Islands
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A regional workshop on Climate Change Education for Sustainable
Development in the Caribbean, organized by UNESCO in June,
2011, in the British Virgin Islands.
© UNESCO/Julia Heiss
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