Author Archives: UNICEF NZ

Water rationing continues in Tuvalu

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 20, 2011
When you live in a place that is facing severe water shortages and your family has only 40 litres of rationed water per day …when you live in a place where trees, crops and grass are all turning brown or withering away from the blistering heat… you have to ask the question – “What’s going [...]
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Tinned fish, noodles and turkey tails

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 16, 2011
By Tanya St George, Senior Advocacy Advisor, UNICEF New Zealand It’s World Food Day and while we in New Zealand continue to debate the price of milk, spare a thought for our neighbours in the Pacific, where spiraling food prices are forcing some families to make major changes to their diets, and climate change now [...]
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Water Crisis in Tuvalu

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 10, 2011
Vika Waradi, UNICEF Pacific, blogging from Tuvalu Greetings from Funafuti, Tuvalu. The weather here is as expected for this part of the Pacific – HOT like sizzling oven hot! It rained for about 5 minutes yesterday (Sunday)…just enough to cool things down a bit… but nowhere NEAR what is needed to fill up families’ water [...]
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World Humanitarian Day 2011

By UNICEF NZ, Published: August 19, 2011
This Friday 19 August is World Humanitarian Day, a celebration of people helping people. It commemorates the loss of 22 lives in a bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August 2003. But it is also about inspiring the spirit of aid work in everyone. ‘Humanitarians… draw the world closer together by reminding [...]
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Watching your child starve to death

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 21, 2011
It’s difficult for us to keep looking at the news reports of the famine that has just been declared. When water comes from the turn of a tap and food means a short trip to the supermarket, the African food crisis feels so far away. But for the mothers who have to look into their [...]
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