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We provide 80% of the world's life-saving food, making sure that children grow up healthy, happy and strong

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Keeping children safe

Unicef. A good education for every child. School children at Sengezane Primary school in Zimbabwe.

Education

The chance to learn can change a child's life
Children draw how the world would look if air pollution continues on one half and how the world would look without air pollution on the other half. We want every child in the UK to grow up breathing clean and healthy air to ensure they have the best opportunity to live a happy, healthy life. Photo: Unicef/2018/Dawe

Child rights

Every child has the right to breathe clean air

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Dr Rajia Sharhan, UNICEF nutritionist screens children for malnutrition in Madaya in the Syrian Arab Republic. Learn more about Unicef's response for children in emergencies.

Our emergency response for children

Our rapid response and long-term help
On 26 April 2016, Louai, 4, is vaccinated in Aleppo City as part of Syria's first ever nationwide routine immunization campaign since the start of the five year conflict. Until recently, the siblings lived in Al-Bab town in rural eastern Aleppo, one of the most dangerous areas to live due to the war. Their mother recently fled with her children to shelter with relatives in Aleppo city. Hearing about the campaign from neighbours, she took her four children to the nearest health centre, along with their cousin. The first full nationwide immunization campaign since the start of the five-year conflict in Syria, began on 24 April 2016, at the start of World Immunization Week. The campaign, supported by UNICEF and WHO, aims to reach all children under the age of five years old including those living under siege and in hard-to-reach areas, where routine vaccination is almost non-existent and many children have never received any vaccinations. Access to children in these areas is key to the success of the campaign. After five years of conflict, national immunization rates have dropped from 90 per cent to 57 per cent, putting the country's 2.8 million under-five-year-old at risk of life-threatening vaccine preventable diseases. In this campaign, children will be immunized against polio, measles, rubella, pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B. Access for health workers is critical to protect these children from deadly diseases. Vaccination is being provided through fixed health centres, outreach activities and mobile teams where required.

Keeping children safe with vaccines

The fight against deadly disease

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