Technology brings aid to school children in disaster areas
©UshahidiUshahidi maps up-to-date crisis information coming from Haiti via SMS, e-mail, radio, phone, social media and other sources. By Anna Azaryeva NEW YORK, USA, 11 March 2010 – The earthquake that...
View ArticleBuilding hope for adolescent girls in post-earthquake Haiti
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1206/Roger LeMoyneA girl smiles during class in a tent at Celie-Lilavois Primary School in Port-au-Princel. Some 4,700 schools were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake, affecting...
View ArticleChristine’s story: Escaping poverty through education in post-earthquake Haiti
October 2010 Since the beginning of the month children in Haiti have streamed back to school amidst challenges in securing proper learning spaces, materials and teachers. The Global education cluster,...
View ArticleOne year on: Rebuilding education in Haiti
©UNICEF/Haiti/2010/McBrideChristie Lafontant and her classmates back in school at Ecole Vision Nouvelle. 11 January 2011 – NEW YORK January 12 marks one year since the deadly earthquake that devastated...
View ArticleEducating against cholera in Haiti
© UNICEF/HTIA2010-00018/Marta RamonedaAlcema (red shirt) , 14, talks about the hygiene session that has taken place in the camp where he lives, in Port au Prince, Haiti. By Pi James NEW YORK, USA, 6...
View ArticleRebuilding Haiti’s education system one year after the earthquake
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0754/Roger LeMoyneChildren locate countries on an inflatable globe, during class in a tent set up on the grounds at an orphanage, in the city of Jacmel. By Pi James NEW YORK, USA, 6...
View ArticleUnique programme improves the quality of education in Haiti after the quake
© UNICEF Haiti/2010 Taleen Vartan NEW YORK, 28 July 2011 – Since 2007, the Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition (EEPCT) programme – a partnership among UNICEF, the Government of the...
View ArticleAn innovative program provides media training for youth in Haiti
© UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2121/DorminoChildren participate in the creation of a one-minute video in Kenscoff, a community near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. By Rudina Vojvoda NEW YORK, 30 January, 2012 – With 43 per...
View ArticleKuwait funds UNICEF to help victims of the Van earthquake in Turkey
Back on Track logo News note NEW YORK, 24 January 2012 – The State of Kuwait has contributed $250,000 to UNICEF in Turkey to support UNICEF’s humanitarian response to victims of the Van earthquake....
View ArticleNearly three years after Haiti earthquake, national survey shows progress for...
Press release PORT-AU-PRINCE, 10 January 2013 – Almost three years after Haiti’s earthquake, preliminary results of a new national household survey show substantial progress for children in the...
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