PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 12 February 2010 – A month after the 12 January earthquake that levelled densely populated areas of Haiti, UNICEF Director of Emergency Operations Louis-George Arsenault travels by helicopter over the cities of Port -Au-Prince and Leogane, and on to the southern port of Jacmel.
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Each year UNICEF partners with governments, communities and the private sector to respond to over 200 emergencies worldwide.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 10 February 2010 – Under normal circumstances, February is Carnival time here in the Haitian capital, including its centrally located park, Champs de Mars.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 2 February 2010 – A cacophony of songs and voices drifts from the tented camp as thousands of handheld radios transmit entertainment and, more important, information.
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NEW YORK, USA, 2 February 2010 – Best-selling author and one-time child soldier Ishmael Beah is the latest UNICEF supporter to add his voice to the worldwide appeal for donations to help children in Haiti, in the wake of the 12 January earthquake there.
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan, 2 February 2010 – Farida Dastgeer, 65, is learning how to read. She is one of 20 women and girls who gather six times a week for two hours, in the living room of one of the students, to improve their literacy.
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The 12 January earthquake killed an estimated 112,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless, many of them children.
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Thirty Bangladeshi adolescents in rural communities joined a Government- and UNICEF-supported photography workshop.
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26 December 2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people.
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Zambia’s programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV are steadily expanding.
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