August 14, 2010
Unique education programs for Afghanistan's young women
The city of Herat is the setting for ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ – Khaled Hosseini’s powerful, best-selling novel about the harsh conditions of women in Afghanistan. While life for many women in the country remains difficult, today Herat’s Gowarshad High School – named for the powerful Timurid queen who founded the city – is full of confident young girls who are well aware of their rights.
August 13, 2010
UNICEF emergency aid arrives in Pakistan
As the worst natural disaster in living memory continues to unfold in Pakistan, a chartered airliner carrying 100 metric tons of UNICEF emergency relief has arrived in the southern port city of Karachi. The shipment includes health kits, nutrition supplies, midwifery kits and tarpaulins for families affected by weeks of monsoon rains and flooding around the country.
August 12, 2010
In Southern Sudan, schools offer fresh hope
In Southern Sudan, UNICEF and partners are helping young people who have missed out on significant amounts of their education due to the war. Students here take lessons in Arabic and English, in classes that unite girls and boys of different ethnic and tribal backgrounds. For many, it is the first time they are associating so closely after years of inter-ethnic and inter-tribal conflict.
August 11, 2010
Life and learning at child-friendly schools in rural Nicaragua
UNICEF is providing education opportunities to children in Nicaragua through establishing child-friendly schools. The schools provide a safe, healthy and protective education environment that includes incorporating suitable physical, emotional and social conditions for learning. The schools are a critical component in providing children in Nicaragua a better start in life and opportunities that were unavailable to the generations before.
August 11, 2010
Floods spread across Pakistan displacing more children and families
The floods that have inundated north-western Pakistan are now affecting the south, indundating the Sindh Province as torrential monsoon rains continue across wide areas of the country. A total of 14 million people— including 6 million children—have been affected by the flood crisis. Children are particulary vulnerable to waterborne diseases and urgently need shelter, food, water and health care.
