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Although some schools reopening, insecurity remains an obstacle to education Violence and attacks against civilian populations in northeastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries have forced more than 1 million children out of school, UNICEF said today. The number of children missing out on their education due to the conflict adds to the estimated 11 million children of primary school ...
December, 2015
September, 2015
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4 September
UNICEF ED Anthony Lake List 4 Ways To Prevent Child Migrant & Refugee Crisis
“Heart-breaking images of children’s bodies washing up on the shores of Europe … lying suffocated in the backs of trucks crossing borders … being passed over barbed wire fences by desperate parents. “As the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe deepens, these will not be the last shocking images to ricochet around the world on social media, on our televisions ...
August, 2015
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17 August
Over A Million Children Reached With Life-Saving Malnutrition Treatment
The Government of Nigeria and UNICEF announced that they have reached more than a million Nigerian children with a highly successful and cost-effective treatment for acutely malnourished children, saving over 200,000 lives in the past six years. Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) was piloted in Gombe and Kebbi States in 2009 and has now been introduced in 11 northern ...
May, 2015
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27 May
Children bear the highest burden of violence in the northeast. They are victims not perpetrators of suicide bombings
As Nigeria commemorates this year’s Children’s Day, the choice of the theme of violence against children and the urgent need to stop it is apt and timely. It speaks eloquently to the current difficult circumstances facing children in Nigeria today especially in the Northeast. Children bear the biggest brunt of the insurgency. The conflict has severely constrained full scale provision ...
