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New Delhi: Meta has pledged $15 million to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and neighbouring countries amid the Russian invasion. This includes $5 million in direct donations to United Nations agencies and more than a dozen nonprofits, including International Medical Corps that will be using these funds to deploy mobile medical units to Ukraine and […]
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Kabul: The Unicef has urged the US State Department to reconsider the latter’s decision to suspend the Fulbright program for Afghanistan, which provides talented Afghan youth opportunities to build their future. The Fulbright program was first launched in 1952 in Afghanistan. It was suspended in 1997 and then re-launched in 2003 after the US and […]
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Geneva: Closing of schools across the world should be the last resort in the fight against the fast-spreading Omicron Covid-19 variant, outgoing Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. “Nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever possible,” Xinhua news agency quoted Fore as saying in a statement on Friday. “When Covid-19 community transmission increases and stringent […]
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Hyderabad: The students of Oakridge International School, Bachupally, along with 60,000 other students from more than thirty countries across the Nord Anglia family, came together on “World Children’s Day” to spread awareness about children’s rights as part of UNICEF initiative. The community service team of the school launched a ‘Health Ambassadors Programme’, which used a […]
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Hyderabad: The historic Charminar and Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in Hyderabad and many other iconic monuments, structures and institutions across the world have gone blue since Friday evening, to commemorate the World Children’s Day (WCD) on Saturday. The World Children’s Day is celebrated globally and is considered as a day of action for […]
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Hyderabad: Youngistaan Foundation with the support of UNICEF distributed over 1,500 hand hygiene kits to nearly 60 garbage collectors in Hyderabad who are vulnerable to getting infected with Covid-19 while they visit house-to-house for garbage collection. Each hand hygiene kit that was distributed included two liquid hand wash bottles, one antiseptic liquid bottle, a pair […]
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Hyderabad: At a time when Caesarean section (C-section) childbirths are on the rise, the State government in partnership with Fernandez Foundation and UNICEF is propagating the idea of midwifery. Under an 18-month certificate training programme in midwifery, about 30 midwives were trained as part of the first cohort in 2017 and since then, two more […]
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Auditory and visual (in-print and online) asynchronous learning works best during crisis periods
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According to UNICEF, only one in four children in India has access to digital devices for online education
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A systematic response for ‘catching up’ is required once schools reopen
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The 'Young Warrior' movement was launched in May 2021, and achieved significant scale, with 6.6+ million actions taken, said organisers in a statement.
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The year-long initiative will include a nation-wide social media awareness campaign, and capacity building for 100,000 school children on online safety, digital literacy, and psychosocial support.
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According to the data published by UNICEF, rich nations have cornered the benefits under the WHO programme
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The well being guide has been launched by the actor in collaboration with several other social media handles, who are working towards a similar goal, to help reach out to a wide array of audience.
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Vaccines have helped generations of children grow up in good health, safe from infectious and dangerous diseases like polio and measles.
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For many families navigating the stress and challenges of home-schooling, pets have offered children crucial support.
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Collaborates with major players for transparency, tracking and tracing of Covid-19 vaccines for its integrated vaccine delivery platform.
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Proactive measures taken by State govt and the close association with agencies like IMD, TSDPS, UNICEF Hyderabad field office and other rganisations ensured a significant reduction in heat wave-related fatalities
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South Asia is home to the largest number of children -- more than 155 million -- living in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability.
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The West African nation of 30 million has recorded 81,245 cases and 584 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to figures from Ghana's Health Services on Tuesday.
