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Category Archives: Emergencies
Water Crisis in Tuvalu
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 [...]
World Humanitarian Day 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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Struggling to survive – Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa
You have probably been grizzling a lot over the past year watching your grocery bill creeping up and up each week. With food prices noticeably increasing, we walk away from the supermarket with less and less each time. It sometimes feels like we don’t have a lot to come and go on, that is until [...]
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Kiwi UNICEF worker blogs from Pakistan: Blog #4
Tania McBride, is a New Zealander working for UNICEF as a Communications Specialist. She has recently been deployed to Pakistan, after severe floods have left 20 million people affected, including 8 million children. Here she blogs, for the fourth time, about her experiences in Pakistan, after witnessing the devastation left by the “flood of the [...]
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