Category Archives: Gaza

UNICEF photo exhibition ‘A Far Cry’ launches September 6

By Lawrence - UNICEF Communications Manger, Published: September 2, 2010
Girls as young as eight have been attacked, raped or killed walking this route.
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Children helping children in tsunami clean-up

By David Youngmeyer - Communications Manager, UNICEF NZ, Published: October 15, 2009
I spent yesterday on Manono Island, a small island wedged between Samoa’s main two islands and home to some 1,400 people. I was part of a UNICEF team looking particularly at education and health impacts of the tsunami, and accompanied by a volunteer interpreter from Red Cross. The tsunami that struck Samoa on 29 September hit [...]
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Kiwi saves lives in Gaza and West Bank!

By David Youngmeyer - Communications Manager, UNICEF NZ, Published: August 20, 2009
Kiwi Douglas Higgins, who is UNICEF’s Deputy Special Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, dropped into the Wellington office today. He gave staff a firsthand account of current issues in the field, briefed the UNICEF board and talked to a Dominion Post reporter. Douglas is based in Jerusalem, where he oversees UNICEF’s aid and development work [...]
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