UNICEF A call for aid to help Somalia's undernourished children
Somalia is an intolerable place for its 4 million children. Without an effective central government since 1991, two generations have had their childhood shattered by war, famine and disease. Today intensified fighting, drought, and a nutritional crisis threaten to make 2008 one of the worst-ever years for Somalia's forgotten children. It is an appalling prospect.This week new figures from the United Nations Children's Fund show malnutrition on the rise. At a hospital in northern Somalia, Dr Hodan Ahmed is dealing with the human face behind the new numbers. Estimates put the number of those killed by fighting and famine at one million. The number of internally displaced, girls such as 13-year-old Khadi Abdire, has doubled in the last six months, leaving more and more children reliant on international support for survival.
Embed code for Blogs
Simply copy and paste the following HTML code below into your blog, website, or MySpace profile.
Copy to Clipboard
Share this video:
Simply click the button below and select your social bookmarking site.
Tag Cloud
Category: International & Intercultural
This is a sign of something romantic and nostalgico museum for the followers of the saga of the Star Wars creator George Lucas, where children can mix imagination with science, learning and develop this creative potential that every...
Tags:
museum, science, technology, human body, robots, imaginatio, children, Star Wars, George Lucas, followers
Views: 77246
Category: Human Services
Living life behind bars. Pascal is just one of 85 juvenile inmates doing time in Douala’s Newbell prison. Here they live
on top of each other. They sleep, eat and wash in an area meant for only 30 prisoners. An open sewer runs...
Views: 57249
Category: Human Services
Junior Goodwill Ambassador ‘Name Six’ visited child victims of the recent natural disaster, in ‘child friendly spaces’
set up by UNICEF in or next to camps for those displaced by the cyclones and related flooding.
Cyclone...
Tags:
child victims, natural disaster, sanitation and hygiene, working, Child friendly spaces, health, nutrition, education, protection, human rights, protecting
Views: 79643
Category: Animals & Species
Less than one day into Canada’s annual seal hunt, animal rights activists claim sealers are already breaking new laws implemented this year. As part of efforts to show the hunt is humane, the Canadian government instituted new...
Views: 41965
Category: Public Benefit
Young people from around the Caribbean have been invited to participate at the special session of the Caribbean
Community Council of Human and Social Development or COHSOD in Georgetown Guyana.
In an effort to support youth...
Views: 37645
Category: Animals & Species
Less than one day into Canada’s annual seal hunt, animal rights activists claim sealers are already breaking new laws implemented this year. As part of efforts to show the hunt is humane, the Canadian government instituted new...
Views: 20115
Category: Human Services
Two weeks after renewed fighting brought chaos and destruction to Jabalia, located on the
North end of Gaza, these damaged homes, schools and storefronts remain as powerful
reminders to children of the latest episode of violence...
Views: 29113
Category: Human Services
More than 2 and a half billion people live without safe toilets... that's 200 million tons of untreated human waste a year. Away into the water supply, or into direct contact with hands and feet. Bacterial infection from human waste...
Views: 22934
Category: Human Services
Somalia is an intolerable place for its 4 million children. Without an effective central government since 1991, two generations have had...
Views: 17167
Category: Human Services
UNICEF was to provide more than just humanitarian relief: in addition to nutrition and health, education and family issues became an additional focus. UNICEF's work was now to become a key to global development.Education, of...
Views: 23140
Category: Science & Technology
IBM's new "Blue Cloud" offering includes both hardware and software that will enable businesses,governments and researchers to do things with computing they never imagined possible. Cloud computing can run new web...
Views: 16135
Category: Environment & Global Warming
The 11th Hour examines the human relationship with earth from its earliest glimmers of innovation, to the challenges humanity faces in the present, to the possibilities of the future. The film posits that in many ways, humanity has...
Tags:
future generations, blue planet, ecology, nature, humanity, earth, leonardo dicaprio, tags: 11th hour
Views: 18514
Tips to prevent falls
AARP: High Tech Toy Shopping for Grandparents
UNICEF - burkinafasofawe
UNICEF: Two Year Update Overview
American Lung Association of California: Smoke Free Choice
Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit on the C40 Summit
George Clooney travels to Sudan and Chad
General Motors: Volt
UNICEF One Minute Juniors
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Choices - Kids (Spanish)
MADD: Whiskey (Spanish)
AARP: Long Term Medical Care
U.S. Department of State: Condeleeza Rice on Palestine
UNICEF: Providing vaccinations, safe water following the Balochistan flood
Whale tagging
Stroke Awareness - Bull's Eye
Hybridfest - The largest hybrid car show
Jason Bell, IFAW South Africa country director
UNICEF: Vlogit project uses new media to encourage HIV prevention and fight discrimination