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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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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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Child-Friendly City plan in NZ

By UNICEF NZ, Published: May 25, 2011

In case you haven’t heard, Auckland is about to make some serious changes. The city council is in the process of producing a 30 year plan to shape the future of the city. Naturally for some, images of sci-fi infrastructure and ways of eradicating traffic congestion, possibly with flying cars, would be the first things [...]

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Cycling the Globe for UNICEF

By UNICEF NZ, Published: April 15, 2011

What do seven new tyres, one attempted bike-theft at knife-point and way too many punishing weeks in the OZ bush all add up to? A pretty massive adventure that’s what! Cyclist Sean Newall dropped into the UNICEF offices in Wellington to tell us all about his mad-cap globe-trotting adventures for UNICEF. Here’s his story so [...]

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Kiwi UNICEF Worker Blogs from Pakistan: Blog #2

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, for the second time, about her experiences in Pakistan, after witnessing the devastation left by the “flood of the [...]

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