2012UNICEF’s response

PHILIPPINES, 2012People affected by Typhoon Bopha receive family hygiene kits and jerrycans at an aid distribution site in the flood-ravaged town of New Bataan, in Compostela Valley Province in Davao Region in south-eastern Mindanao.

UNICEF’s response in 2012 included the followingresults:

NUTRITION2 million children were treated for severe and moderate malnutrition

HEALTH38.3 million children wereimmunised

WATER, SANITATION& HYGIENE12.4 million people wereprovided access to safe water for drinking, cooking and bathing

CHILD PROTECTION2.4 million children wereprovided with child protection services

EDUCATION3 million children were provided with access to improved education, including throughtemporary spaces

HIV and AIDS1 million were provided with access to testing, counselling and referral for treatment

In villages and towns in Compostela Valley, fami-lies are trying to recover after Typhoon Bopha. The storm impacted 960,000 people with more than 1,000 lives lost.

One-year-old Warren (above), sleeps on a piece of cardboard in a make-shift evacuation centre in new Batann, in south-eastern Mindanao.

UNICEF’s reponse to the typhoon has involved providing clean water and sanitation, education, nu-trition and psycho-social services.

IN THE FIELD:Typhoon Bopha hits the Philippines

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NIGER, 2012A girl leads donkeys that are being used to pull water from a well, in the village of Moule Sofoua. Niger is one of eight countries in the Sahel region – also including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and the northern parts of Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal – which faced a nutrition crisis that at its height affected over 10 million people. UNICEF worked to establish nutrition cetnres and reach over 850,000 children with life-saving treatment for malnutrition.

BURKINA FASO, 2012Ramatou Tankouanou holds her malnourisheddaughter, 7-month-old Saamatou Bangou, during agrowth-monitoring session at the health centre inSector 1, a division of Fada N’gourma, capital of EstRegion.

PAKISTAN, 2012A woman carries her baby and a container of water through flood water, in Ranjhapur Village in Sindh Province. She collected the water from a nearby handpump. By mid-October 2012, monsoon rains and torrential flooding that began in early September had affected more than 5 million people. Over 459,000 homes as well as roads and schools were damaged or destroyed

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC, 2012A girl, carrying jerrycans of water, walks past a pile of debris, on a street in Aleppo, Syria. The city, which has been a site of prolonged fighting duringthe conflict, is experiencing frequent interruptions in its water supply.

2013Challenges ahead

SYRIA, DECEMBER 2012.Children walk on a dirt path, passing tent shelters in Za’atari, a camp for Syrian refugees on the outskirts of Mafraq. As at January 2013, Za’atari is hosting more than 66,000 people.

UNICEF and partners will work toward the following results in 2013:

NUTRITION1.9 million children to betreated for severe acutemalnutrition

HEALTH

WATER, SANITATION& HYGIENE

CHILD PROTECTION

EDUCATION

HIV and AIDS

39 million children immunised against measles, pneumonia, polio, meningitis, rubella, acute respiratory infections and/or tetanus

12.3 million people to have access to safe water for drinking, cooking and bathing

3.5 million children (and women) to have access to child protection services.

6 million children to have access to improved education, including through temporary spaces

292,752 people to have access to testing, counselling and referral for treatment

When an emergency strikes, whether a natural disaster or an armed conflict, children require special protection to ensure their safety and well-being.

In an emergency, UNICEF’s child protetion work can include any or all of the following:

foster care for separated children

demobilised from armed groups

gender-based violence

and life skills programes

IN THE FIELD:What are child protection services?

MALI, 2012A girl stands near drying animal skins in Bamako, Mali. Thousands of people in Mali have fled conflict as military operations continue. UNICEF has called on commanders of all armed forces, groups and militias in Mali to take every possible measure to protect children from the impact of hostilities.

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LEBANON, 2013Nour (left), 10, sits next to her siblings in her family’s tent shelter in a make-shift encampment for Syrian refugees. When violence forced the family to flee their homes, they made the three-day journey to Lebanon.

“[Syria] was more beautiful and nicer,” Nour said, “but then there was war, and the situation was not good. We ran out of everything, and the cold weather arrived...”

She misses her friends in Syria who have also fled the country. Now in the encampment, she sometimes plays with new friends, who pretend to fight using human figurines they make from clay.

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