Humanitarian Action for Children 2011 - Unicef

TAJIKISTAN© UNICEF Tajikistan/2010/SodiqovA girl receives an oral polio vaccine during a countrywideimmunization campaign. The first known outbreakof polio in the country since 1997 struck 458people, nearly 90 per cent of them children underage 15.Page 31.EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA© UNICEF/NYHQ2007-0004/KamberChildren walk down a debris-strewn street inMogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Conflict and disasteremergencies continue to negatively affect millionsof people in Eastern and Southern Africa, exacerbatinghealth, nutrition and education shortfalls.Page 33.BURUNDI© UNICEF Burundi/2009/AmaniA child formerly associated with a rebel groupis reunited with his mother in Bujumbura RuralProvince. Increased political unrest is putting morechildren at risk of violence, including forced recruitmentinto armed groups.Page 36.ERITREA© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1641/PirozziA health worker measures a toddler’s mid-upperarm circumference to gauge his nutrition status.Pervasive child undernutrition is one result ofon going political instability, food insecurity andrecurrent natural disasters.Page 37.ETHIOPIA© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-2272/HoltAsiya Abdu, pregnant with her fifth child, standsin the home she shares with 20 family members,in Undada Village. Poverty, inadequate basic servicesand recurrent droughts and floods continue tothreaten the welfare of children and women.Page 38.KENYA© UNICEF/NYHQ2006-0163/KamberA Masai woman reads to her children in Kajiado Village,near Nairobi. Only four of the family’s 80 cowssurvived a recent drought. Today, more than 40,000Kenyan children suffer from severe acute malnutrition.Paga 39.MADAGASCAR© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-1246/PirozziChildren line up for lunch at a primary school inSoavinandriana District, Itasy Region. Recurrentnatural disasters, poverty and political upheaval arelikely to lead to a worsening of the nutritional statusof more than 100,000 children.Page 40.SOMALIA© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-0639/KamberA woman holds her son and peers through a thicketin a camp for people displaced by drought andconflict, near Dhusamareb. An estimated 2 millionpeople, or 27 per cent of all Somalis, require humanitarianassistance.Page 41.UGANDA© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1461/NooraniA family sits outside their home after a recent rainin Busoru III Village. Uganda is still recovering froma deep humanitarian crisis in the north. Lingeringproblems of displacement, undernutrition and inadequatesanitation continue to affect many people.Page 42.ZIMBABWE© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1488/NesbittA woman and girl wait to be treated for choleraat a village clinic in Mashonaland West Province.Children and women remain under threat frompolitical and economic crises, widespread poverty, alow level of social services, HIV and food insecurity.Page 43.MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA© UNICEF/NYHQ2007-0737/KamberDuring an electricity blackout, Amna, 7, lights candlesat her home in Damascus, Syria. She and herfamily are refugees from the conflict in Iraq. Manychildren and women in the region lack access toessential services and protection systems.Page 45.DJIBOUTI© UNICEF Djibouti/2004/PirozziA girl participates in a school event in Balbala, onthe outskirts of Djibouti’s capital city. Persis tentdrought, food insecurity and conflict in neighbouringcountries continue to threaten the welfare of thecountry’s children and women.Page 48.IRAQ© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0694/KamberA boy stands on a debris-choked street in the city ofNasariyah, in Dhi Qar Governorate. Since the warbegan in 2003, violence has displaced millions of Iraqis,decimated infrastructure and deepened poverty.Page 49.OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-0154/PirozziThe climate of violence and distress in the Occu piedPalestinian Territory emerges in a girl’s drawingcreated as part of a group activity at a school inQabatya in the West Bank. Many Palestinian childrenneed ongoing psychosocial support.Page 50.www.unicef.org/hac2011 | 2011 UNICEF Humanitarian Action FOR CHILDREN 71