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  • A educative campain lauched ly UNicef Belgium : Learn to survive

    UNICEF : Learning to survive

    Posted on the 18.10.2011 by Michel Brent

    On 5 October, Unicef Belgium has launched an important educational campain 'Apprendre pour Survivre' / 'Learn to Survive' in order to increase public and government awareness about the fact that very often after or even during a humanitarian crisis, a lot of children can not go to shool.

  • Somalia, 2011: An armed soldier monitors children and women in a food distribution queue, at a displacement camp in Mogadishu.

    It’s not a crisis it’s a drama !

    Posted on the 04.08.2011 by Alain Hubert

    It is not only as a UNICEF ambassador but also as a simple human being that I want to increase public awareness and in particular the one of each one of you of what it is happening nowadays in the Horn of Africa.

  • Kenya, 2011: Somali children and women refugees await food and other assistance at a camp near the town of Dadaab.

    Horn of Africa : situation set to get worse for millions of children

    Posted on the 19.07.2011 by Alain Hubert

    If no improvement in the overall food security conditions takes place before early 2012, the already severe nutrition situation will likely worsen further. UNICEF has called for an immediate expansion of assistance across the Horn of Africa where half a million are at imminent risk of dying.

  • Camp in Pakistan 2009

    Helping Pakistan: a Matter of Humanity

    Posted on the 02.09.2010 by Alain Hubert

    As you all know, the International Polar Foundation usually keeps to its mission. Yet, whether you feel concerned by the future of our Earth or not –and we all should– you cannot, as a human being, not be moved by the dramatic events that are currently striking Pakistan.

  • A major tragedy in Pakistan : more than 20 millon people in danger, half of them being children

    UNICEF’s life-saving operation in Pakistan in jeopardy due to funding shortfall

    Posted on the 19.08.2010 by Michel Brent

    ISLAMABAD/Brussels, 17 August 2010 - UNICEF warned today that serious funding shortfalls are jeopardising its humanitarian operation in Pakistan. UNICEF is extremely concerned at the lack of funds for its water and sanitation operation, with millions of children at risk from water-borne diseases.

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