Tag: United Nations Children’s Fund

Thunberg donates $100,000 to support children during pandemic

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday. “Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis,” Thunberg, 17, was quoted as saying in the UNICEF statement. “It will affect all children, now and in the long term, but vulnerable […]

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Japan gives $800,000 to help residents affected by Marawi conflict

(Eagle News) – The Japanese government has donated $800,000 to help the people affected by the armed conflict in Marawi City. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said the $800,000 from Japan will help improve sanitation in the war-torn city and in Lanao del Sur. “Reports of increased incidences of diarrhea including acute watery diarrhea draw attention to scaling up sanitation responses, access to clean water, and reinforce immunization and nutrition services in areas with […]

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