Category Archives: Emergencies

Struggling to survive – Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 14, 2011
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

By UNICEF NZ, Published: September 13, 2010
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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Kiwi UNICEF Worker Blogs From Pakistan: Blog #3

By UNICEF NZ, Published: September 13, 2010
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 over 20.5 million people affected, hald of whom are children. Here she blogs, for the third time, about her experiences in Pakistan, after witnessing the devastation left by the “flood [...]
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The conclusion: HAIR-larious, DREAD-fully good, and definitely a CUT ABOVE the rest!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: September 13, 2010
Did you hear about how Ash, 14, wanted to do something a little different to raise money for children affected by the Pakistan Floods? Here’s his story. Well, Ash bravely went ahead with cutting off his dreadlocks! You can tell by the look on his face that he wasn’t too happy with losing the ‘beloved [...]
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Kiwi UNICEF Worker Blogs from Pakistan

By UNICEF NZ, Published: September 8, 2010
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 about her experiences in Pakistan, after witnessing the devastation left by the “flood of the century”. “I arrived last [...]
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