Children in Danger: the case for support

PR OTECTI N G CHILDRE N IN DANGE R H EL P U S DO WHATE VE R IT TAKES, UNTI L EVE RY CHIL D IS SAF E.

“ YO U H AV E T H E PO WER TO PR OTECT CH I L DR E N I N DA NG ER TO DAY.” While great progress has been made for children in many parts of the world, we can’t avoid the heartbreaking fact that millions of children live in fear of conflict, disaster, disease and violence. But it is not hopeless. Together we can help these children and young people to be safe.

I recently visited Bangladesh where I met children in immediate danger – young girls threatened with early marriage and the loss of their chance to get an education and fulfill their potential. I met others who had spent their short lives being exploited and abused.

But I also saw how Unicef was helping them to turn their lives around, and enabling these young people to prevent the same thing happening to others in their communities. The intervention of local child protection workers and community volunteers often came just in time – they were only there because of Unicef.

Unicef has achieved amazing things since we started our work more than 60 years ago. Since 1990, we have helped reduce the number of children who die before their fifth birthday by half.

And yet for too many children today, danger is their daily reality.

Our Children in Danger campaign focuses on the five big dangers: violence, disease, hunger, war and disaster. Through this five year campaign, we aim to raise hundreds of millions of pounds to keep more children safe. We will also send clear messages to our leaders to ensure they deliver on their responsibilities for children. But we can’t do any of this without your help.

We’re asking you to join us in our mission to be there for every child in danger. We need you to give your voice, your time and your money.

Together, we can work to put an end to violence against children and ensure every child can grow up free from fear. With your help, we can make even more progress in putting an end to preventable disease, and ensuring every child gets the nutrition they need to grow up healthy and strong. With your support, but only with your support, we can help children stay safe and secure when disaster and conflict strike, as we do in hundreds of emergencies every year.

Travelling around the world with Unicef, I have been reduced to tears by meeting children facing the worst and most life-threatening dangers. Yet I remain optimistic, because I have also seen, time and time again, the incredible difference we can and do make. I know that together, we can make it better. That’s what this campaign is about.

Working with Unicef, you have the power to protect children in danger today – and make a safer world for children tomorrow.

Please join us.

David Bull Executive Director, Unicef UK

Find out more about our Children in Danger campaign.

David shows photos to children at a Unicef-supported child development centre in Bangladesh.

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VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE

Across the world, children are facing an epidemic of violence: in war zones, on the streets of violent cities, but also, shockingly, in their own homes and schools. From babies to teenagers, they’re beaten, raped, even murdered.

Millions of children live in fear of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. The effects last a lifetime.

In all its forms, violence damages children’s physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing, undermines their future potential, and – in many cases – ends their lives.

The long-lasting impacts of violence are often passed on from generation to generation, as the victim becomes the perpetrator.

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Unicef works to protect the world’s most vulnerable children against violence, exploitation and abuse.

We do this in many different ways, such as setting up services to help children and their families, working with governments to make sure national child protection systems are effective, and working with communities to change attitudes towards violence so it’s considered unacceptable.

We need your help to keep children safe.

Our Children in Danger campaign will help us work towards our goal of putting an end to violence against children so every child can grow up in a world without fear.

CASE STUDY

VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE: EL SALVADOR

SA N SA LVA DOR

PREVENTING AND RESPONDING TO ARMED VIOLENCE Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most violent regions in the world.

Armed violence has a huge impact on children across the region, jeopardizing their security, their health and their opportunity to make friends and socialise.

Unicef is working to protect children from armed violence, as well as preventing them from being recruited into gangs and becoming involved in criminal activities themselves.

We need your help to continue this essential work in countries like El Salvador.

El Salvador has the highest homicide rates among children and adolescents in the world. It also has high rates of impunity, with only 3 per cent of child homicide cases going to court.

High levels of armed violence, increasing numbers of children being recruited into gangs and a lack of safe public spaces mean thousands of children in El Salvador are living in great danger, with very little support.

Almost 40 per cent of children live without one or both of their parents, and less than half of all children finish secondary school. Violence is a leading cause of children dropping out of school.

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We need your help to keep children in El Salvador safe, and enable them to grow up to reach their full potential, free from the fear of violence.

Unicef is working with some of the most dangerous municipalities in El Salvador to prevent and reduce the impact of armed violence on children. Our programmes include: Strengthening local systems already in place to protect children.

Building communities free of armed violence, with revitalized public spaces and non-violent dispute resolution strategies in communities and schools.

Supporting national authorities to develop systems for gathering and analysing data to help them address armed violence and its impact on children and adolescents.

With your support, we can reduce the number of child victims of armed violence in some of the worst affected areas of El Salvador, increase the number of out-of-school children returning to education, and prevent school dropouts caused by violence.

Together, we can keep more children safe.

Hear Bryan’s story

HOW WE CAN HELP

£200,000

would enable us to roll out armed violence prevention programs in two new municipalities (Caluco and Santo Tomás).

£97,000

could enable children to participate in activities that help prevent violence and the use of weapons in their families, schools and communities.

£40,000

could improve access to and awareness about services for victims of armed violence.

ALAN AND AARON’S STORY © UNICEF UK/14/Heger

Alan, left, and Aaron, right, with their cousin, Jose Mario, 8, centre.

Twin brothers Alan and Aaron, 11, live in San Marcos, El Salvador. Gang activity in the area means even a short walk to school can put children in danger of kidnapping, assault or getting caught in firearm crossfire.

Alan and Aaron used to stay indoors, as their parents were worried about gang violence on the street outside their home.

Now, they have a safe place to play. Unicef has worked with the municipality to set up a football pitch in the middle of the road where Alan and Aaron live, repaving the road and putting up street lights.

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The football pitch provides older children with something to do, so they are less likely to turn to gangs and criminal activity, as well as the opportunity to play with children from different parts of the community.

“We used to feel sad that we couldn’t play with our friends,” says Alan.

“We’d be alone in the house.

We feel safer now.”

CASE STUDY

VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE: NEPAL

KATH MA NDU

PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHILD LABOUR Millions of children around the world are trapped in child labour, depriving them of their childhood, their education, and their health.

Nepal is one of the top 10 countries for child labour and trafficking. Poverty puts pressure on parents to send their children to work, often unaware of the devastating impact of exploitation on a child’s development.

A massive 40 per cent of children aged five to 17 are working in Nepal – that’s more than 3 million children. More than 600,000 are engaged in hazardous work.

The extent of child trafficking in Nepal remains largely undocumented. There is an urgent need to gain a better understanding of this issue to guide the development of new strategies and approaches to tackle it.

Unicef is already working in eight municipalities to help strengthen child protection systems in Nepal. We want to double that number, providing services direct to children and their families, as well as engaging with local authorities, central government and the private sector.

We aim to decrease child labour by 20 per cent and trafficking by 10 per cent by 2017. As well as directly protecting and supporting 4,000 child victims of exploitation and trafficking, we want to increase government budget allocations to combat this issue through evidence-based campaigns.

Yet we can’t do any of this without your help.

We need to expand our programmes to help combat child labour and trafficking in Nepal, including: Conducting extensive research to understand the extent, root causes and determining factors of trafficking.

Providing families with information, and also economic alternatives.

Providing services to support victims of trafficking and child labour.

Developing profitable models of child labourfree production.

With your support, we can protect children in danger from the life-long effects of exploitation and sexual abuse.

Watch: A vaccine for violence

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HOW WE CAN HELP

£100,000 £75,000 £50,000

could provide one year of psychosocial counselling for 2,000 children affected by child trafficking or child labour.

£25,000

could help us publish our findings and use the evidence to increase public awareness of trafficking and campaign for more investment from the Nepalese Government to address this issue.

could help us reintegrate more than 400 children affected by trafficking with their families. could provide a research consultant, data collection and analysis to gather much-needed data on trafficking in Nepal. This data could help Unicef lobby the government and develop new strategies to tackle child trafficking.

SITA’S STORY © UNICEF/Narendra Shrestha

Sita, 11, lives with her parents in the Tarai lowlands in Nepal. Her family were originally from another area, but were forced to leave their community when their home was destroyed by a landslide.

They moved to a town hoping to find better opportunities when Sita was just six years old and started living on the streets. The family spent around one and a half years on the streets, making their living by picking and selling rags. Sita had to work too, meaning she was not able to go to school. The family weren’t sure when they would eat next, and had no safe place to call home.

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Unicef-supported social workers recognised the vulnerable situation of Sita and her family.

They regularly conduct identification visits in vulnerable areas of the city where child labourers are likely to be found, such as bus parks, construction sites and hotels.

As part of Unicef Nepal’s child labour programme, they were able to offer Sita’s family economic support, based on the condition that Sita went to school. In addition to the income-generating support, Sita’s parents were also provided with counselling, explaining the negative consequences for a child who is working and not receiving an education.

“I would much rather go to school and learn new things than spend my days doing hard and physical work on the streets,” says Sita.

“Having an education will provide me with many more opportunities in the future such as becoming a teacher or a doctor.”

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DISEASE

Too many children are in danger from deadly, yet preventable, diseases.

Measles, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis, diphtheria and whooping cough – the killer six – are all easily and cheaply preventable by immunisation.

Conflict, displacement and poverty keep some of the most vulnerable children from getting the vaccines they need and exacerbate the conditions under which diseases spread.

Unicef is the world’s largest buyer of vaccines, providing immunisation for more than one third of the world’s children.

Since 1980, we have helped quadruple immunisation rates for children worldwide, saving up to 3 million children’s lives a year.

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Our Children in Danger campaign will help us work towards our goal of putting an end to preventable disease and the tragic, unnecessary deaths it causes.

By donating to our Immunisation Fund, you can support Unicef’s life-saving programmes, providing vaccinations for millions of children, health workers to deliver and administer them, and a range of other initiatives to protect children from disease.

CASE STUDY

DISEASE: PAKISTAN

I SL A MA BA D

PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM POLIO Millions of children around the world are in danger of contracting polio – a crippling and deadly disease. While there is no cure for polio, there are safe and effective vaccines that give children a lifetime of immunity.

In Pakistan, we’re working with partner organisations, government and trained community mobilisers to identify high-risk neighbourhoods and penetrate pockets of resistance.

Since 2008, effective immunisation programmes, supported by Unicef and others, have brought the number of countries where polio is endemic down from 125 to just three: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.

This includes raising community and household awareness of polio, and procuring sufficient quantities of Oral Polio Vaccine to ensure adequate supplies for national campaigns.

For children in those countries, polio remains a very real danger. And, in recent months, isolated outbreaks have started to occur in other countries, including Central African Republic, Syria, Equatorial Guinea, Niger and Cameroon, often as a result of conflict.

It is essential that the remaining reservoirs of disease are eradicated, which can only be achieved with mass vaccination and monitoring programmes that tackle cases immediately.

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Unicef is working against the clock to stop the spread of this terrible disease and reach our goal of global eradication. We can’t continue this vital work without your help.

With a determined effort, we can make polio a thing of the past.

HOW WE CAN HELP

£115,000 £100,000 £12,000

could equip 1,000 health workers with bicycles and equipment to transport vaccines to the remotest areas. could help vaccinate 250,000 children against polio in some of the remotest parts of Pakistan. could provide health workers with 1,000 cold chain boxes essential for maintaining the temperature of vaccines as they are transported.

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Mai Sakeena has four sons and six grandchildren. She lives in the village of Sardar Shah in Jacobabad District, and has spent most of her life without access to basic resources essential for a healthy life.

Today, she has adapted the positive health behaviours, such as routine vaccinations, being encouraged by Unicef among marginalised communities in Pakistan, and is a role model for women of her community.

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“When I got married, we had no concept of prevention through immunization or even consulting the doctor for our illnesses,” says Mai Sakeena.

“For us, a dai (traditional birth attendant) was the doctor and our guide to all mother and child health related issues.

If a new-born died, we would accept it as fate, not knowing that we could have saved a life by taking a preventive action.

Now we know the importance of routine vaccinations, both for women and children.”

Too many children are in danger because they don’t have the food they need to live and grow. The first 1,000 days are the most critical in a child’s life. Without enough of the nutrients they need, their bodies and brains don’t develop the way they should.

Malnutrition kills a child every 10 seconds.

Even for the children that survive, there is a devastating legacy; irreversible damage to their physical and mental growth impacts on their educational achievement and long– term survival.

Childhood malnutrition leaves generations of children unable to reach their full potential. This is a major inhibitor to sustainable development for many poorer countries, trapping them in a vicious cycle of aid and poverty.

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Only a new and strategic approach to improving nutrition for the first 1,000 days can help break this cycle.

Unicef provides 80 per cent of the world’s life-saving emergency food. By treating malnutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, we have helped cut the number of children badly affected by stunting by nearly 100 million since 1990. But there is much more to do.

By supporting our Malnutrition Programme, you can help fund a range of essential programmes, from breastfeeding and supplementary feeding initiatives to provision of health staff.

Together with your support, our Children in Danger campaign will help us work towards our goal of putting an end to hunger so that every child gets the nutrition they need to grow up healthy and strong.

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MALNUTRITION

CASE STUDY

MALNUTRITION: LIBERIA

MONROVI A

THE FIGHT FOR LIFE-SAVING FOOD Liberia has one of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world.

Almost 10,000 children a year die as a result of malnutrition, while more than 40 per cent of children suffer from chronic malnutrition or stunting.

Stunting is what happens to a child’s brain and body when they don’t get the right nutrients in their first 1,000 days of life. A stunted child is often inches shorter than a child who’s had enough of the right kind of food. Their immune system is weaker, leaving them more vulnerable to disease. They are five times more likely to die from diarrhoea.

The underlying cause of malnutrition in children is not simply poverty, but crucially, a lack of awareness of good feeding practices, including low rates of exclusive breastfeeding. Many mothers are malnourished themselves, which increases the chances of their baby having a low birth weight. The lack of access to health facilities and health care advice, as well as frequent infections due to poor hygiene and sanitation, only aggravates the problem.

And now, the recent outbreak of ebola in Liberia has severely disrupted basic health care services, meaning even more children are not receiving the essential treatment they need.

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Unicef is working with the Liberian Government to eradicate malnutrition at three key stages of a child’s life: FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH, by strengthening antenatal care and promoting good nutrition during pregnancy.

FROM NEWBORN TO FIVE MONTHS, by training health workers and traditional midwives to support mothers with breastfeeding.

FROM SIX TO 24 MONTHS, by supporting early identification and treatment of acute malnutrition.

Right now, Unicef is helping to significantly reduce chronic malnutrition and stunting, particularly targeting children under two, and children in the most marginalised areas.

We want to reach every child under five, but we can’t do it alone. By helping us to provide the right nutrition and care during a child’s first 1,000 days, your support will help to avoid stunting and bring a lifetime of benefit to Liberian children, their families and their society.

HOW WE CAN HELP

£145,000 £41,600 £20,600

could help us reach 1,000 children under five with life-saving treatment for malnutrition. could help provide therapeutic milk needed to treat 10,000 severely acutely malnourished children for a week. could provide 1,000 weighing scales to help health workers monitor an infant’s growth through the first few critical years and identify early signs of undernourishment to stop long term damage.

FAVOUR’S STORY © UNICEF/UKLA2014-04963/Chandra

Junka, 19, has been visiting the hospital at Gbarpolu, Liberia, since her 15 month old baby Favour was just a few months old.

Favour was getting sick a lot and is now being treated for malnutrition at a clinic set up as part of the Unicef programme to combat malnutrition.

Junka walks for two hours to get to the clinic, where Favour is monitored regularly and she can pick up ready to use therapeutic food for her.

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“My baby used to look really sick and you could see all her bones, but she is much healthier now,” says Junka.

“Since receiving her treatment she is also much more active.

I hope that Favour grows up to be a good person, that she gets to go to school and maybe one day become a journalist.”

Right now, millions of children are in terrible danger from war and conflict.

They face losing their homes, their families, and even their lives.

Torn from everything they know, children caught up in fighting are left vulnerable to many other dangers, from disease and malnutrition, to violence and exploitation.

The international community today is faced with increasingly complex humanitarian crises that place children and their families in great danger. Over the coming years, the need for emergency assistance will continue to grow, posing an even greater challenge to our mission to protect children.

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From Syria and Iraq to South Sudan and Central African Republic, we need your help to provide life-saving food, clean water, medicines, education, protection and psychological support to children whose lives have been devastated by the effects of war and conflict.

Children shouldn’t be the victims of war.

Together we can keep them safe.

By supporting our Children in Danger campaign, you can help us make sure that children caught up in fighting get the help they need to stay safe and secure.

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WAR AND CONFLICT

CASE STUDY

WAR AND CONFLICT SYRIA DA MA SCUS

THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF WAR AND CONFLICT Violence and political instability are putting children in danger across the Middle East and Africa. As protracted conflicts in Syria, Iraq and South Sudan continue, surrounding countries struggle to cope with an outflow of refugees.

The escalating conflict in Syria has left 6.5 million children affected by the relentless violence, with more than 1.5 million Syrian children now living as refugees in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey.

There is a very real risk of a lost generation of Syrian children that will grow up knowing only displacement, fighting and violence.

Unrelenting violence, grave child rights violations, massive population displacement, and damage to infrastructure and essential services have left millions of children and their families in desperate need of humanitarian support. Access to power is limited, the quantity and quality of drinking water inadequate, and sanitation facilities poor.

Many children are unable to attend school, with one in five schools destroyed, damaged, or used for other purposes. Collapsing health care and water systems are exposing children to infectious diseases.

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Unicef in Syria is working hard to provide children with essential vaccinations and access to safe drinking water, as well as winter supplies such as warm children’s clothes. Our child protection programmes also provide children who have witnessed unspeakable violence with access to psychosocial support and child protection services.

In 2013, Unicef helped provide 10 million people with access to clean water, provided more than 1.5 million children with education supplies and vaccinated more than 2 million children under five against polio.

There is so much more to do, but we can’t continue this vital work without your help.

You can help us protect children from the terrible dangers of war and conflict.

HOW WE CAN HELP

£84,000 £50,000

could provide 3,200 winter clothing kits for Syrian children.

£50,000

could buy a winter hat for 10,000 Syrian children.

could pay for 200 Syrian refugee children in Iraq to participate in Child Friendly Spaces for a year. These special children’s spaces provide safe, protective environments for children to play and learn and have a sense of normality.

BASSAM’S STORY Bassam, far right, walks home from his art therapy class with friends.

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Bassam, 14, has lived in Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan for more than two years. He shares a caravan with his parents, and has eight brothers and sisters.

decorate his home with images of trees and flowers to look like a garden. When he is older he wants to be an artist or a sculptor.

His family fled from their home in Syria when the shelling became too intense. He was afraid when the family first arrived, because the camp was so big.

“We are always scared about Syria, especially when we hear it is being shelled,” says Bassam. “It is always on our mind. I would like to go back one day. Here it is better than Syria. We don’t hear the shelling, we don’t see the army coming. It’s much safer.”

Bassam loves to draw and attends art therapy classes at a Unicef-supported centre that provides psychological and social support for Syrian refugee children. He has helped to

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DISASTERS

When disaster strikes, children are hardest hit. Whether it’s a flood, an earthquake or a typhoon, so many lose everything – their homes, their families, even their lives.

In an emergency situation, Unicef is there to provide everything from clean water and sanitation to schooling, nutrition, vaccines and psychosocial support.

Our supply warehouses in Copenhagen, Shanghai, Panama and Dubai can send supplies anywhere in the world within 72 hours of an emergency. Our continuous presence in more than 190 countries means we are able to respond quickly, effectively and efficiently, to keep children safe.

As our climate changes, more severe and frequent natural disasters, food crises

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and changing rainfall patterns are putting children in increasing danger.

By supporting our Children’s Emergency Fund, you can help us respond to an emergency as soon as possible, whenever and wherever they happen.

We work proactively with governments and communities to build in systems, processes and infrastructure to minimise the impact of future humanitarian crises.

Our Children in Danger campaign will help us make sure children get the help they need to stay safe and strong when disaster strikes and give them what they need to rebuild their lives.

Working together, we won’t let children down.

CASE STUDY

DISASTERS PHILIPPINES

MA NI L A

KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE WHEN DISASTER STRIKES Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, struck the Philippines in November 2013. Fourteen million people were affected, including nearly 6 million children.

recover from disasters of this magnitude must continue far beyond the immediate response, and for far longer than we expect the disaster to feature in global headlines.

In 2014, we achieved the following:

Millions lost their homes and thousands were killed, injured or are missing. The typhoon cut off basic services, including food, drinking water, health care and schooling, placing children at risk of malnutrition and disease outbreaks.

The typhoon also impacted the ongoing response to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that had hit the country just one month before, causing power failures and diverting attention and support.

As soon as access was possible, Unicef was on the ground, working alongside government agencies and other partners to provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene supplies, medication, food, education materials and child protection support.

Now, we’re standing by the people of the Philippines to maintain the momentum needed to help children survive and grow, throughout the long journey back to normality. We know from experience that the support needed to

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Vaccinated 1.1 million children in the Philippines against measles.

Provided 17,000 children with access to child-friendly spaces.

Provided nearly 1 million people with access to clean water.

At any given time, between one quarter and one-third of all the countries that Unicef is working in are affected by emergencies; many are unheard of and will never make it into the news.

From floods in Bangladesh to drought in Kenya, we need your help to make sure we can respond to disasters through the Children’s Emergency Fund whenever and wherever they strike, to keep children safe.

HOW WE CAN HELP

£100,000 £50,000 £12,000

provided training kits to over 1,350 teachers in the Philippines. helped us construct more than 20 sanitation facilities. allowed us to organise meetings with governments, donors and partners to monitor and evaluate our programmes for one year.

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Michel Lerios, 13, lives with his family in a makeshift shelter in the town of Tanauan – one of the areas hardest hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Before the typhoon hit, 750 students (taught by 16 teachers) attended the local elementary school. Nine students were killed in the storm, and many others were displaced and are now sheltering in other areas.

Only one of the 17 classrooms survived the disaster. The school now consists of two tents and six makeshift classes provided by the Department of Education in the Philippines

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with support from Unicef. We are also providing educational supplies and supporting water and sanitation facilities at the school.

“Going to school is important because you make friends and it helps you to find a job,” Michel says.

“I wish for myself that I can finish my studies because my parents are doing all the hard work, and I want to repay them by getting good grades.”

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H E L P U S P R OTE C T C H I L D R E N IN DAN G E R TO DAY

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