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World Education Games 2012

By Ella, Published: February 24, 2012

UNICEF and 3P Learning are teaming up for the World Education Games to inspire children to enjoy learning, and to provide education for those who have little or no opportunity to go to school. About the Games The World Education Games, hosted by 3P Learning, are about to kick off. Be part of the action [...]

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Shantha Bloemen reporting from Mauritania

By Ella, Published: February 22, 2012

Avoiding a children’s catastrophe There is much talk these days of reaching the unreached. But as I drive with UNICEF colleagues through the remote Hodh Gharbi scrubland in Mauritania, in north-west Africa’s Sahel region, there is little sign of any outside effort making its way here where the whimpers and restlessness – the signs of [...]

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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 [...]