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Healthy mothers, healthy children, making healthy communities in Ethiopia
Dugem, Tigray REGION, Ethiopia, 21 December 2017 – In the health post at Dugem village, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Berhan Zebraruk, 25, gently strokes her child’s cheek and then gives him a sweet...
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A child’s example demonstrates the need for integrating educational services...
By Amanda Westfall On 21 December 2017, eight-year-old Ethiopian Sefadin Yisak speaks about his friend on the hill, Adam, a nine-year-old, South Sudanese refugee boy. When boundaries, legal...
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What it takes to truly educate a girl in Ethiopia – An entire system...
By Amanda Westfall Filmawit Layn, a ten-year-old girl at Addishihu Primary School in the Emba Alaje Woreda (District), Tigray Region is the type of student and daughter most parents dream of – smart,...
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48,000 babies to be born on New Year’s Day in Eastern and Southern Africa
NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG/ADDIS ABABA, 1 January 2018: Approximately 48,000 babies will be born in the Eastern and Southern Africa region on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today, as the UN Children’s Fund...
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In Ethiopia, passionate teachers prepare children for school
By Kosumo Shiraishi BURKA RAMIS, OROMIA, 21 August 2017- In Burka Ramis, a remote rural village of West Hararge, Oromia region, Ethiopia, 50 young boys and girls sing cheerfully in their classroom. It...
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Italy and UNICEF sign the agreement for the second phase of the “vital events...
ADDIS ABABA, 6 December 2017: Italy and UNICEF signed today a financing agreement for the project “Strengthening the Civil Registration System for Children’s Right to Identity: Identification for...
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MIND THE GAP – BABYWASH Launched on World Toilet Day to Improve Integrated...
By Samuel Godfrey When you travel in a car through Addis Ababa, you will note that adult women and men vary greatly in height. There are tall people and short people. So which ones of these are...
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Children Takeover Minister Roles as Ethiopia celebrates World Children’s Day...
20 November 2017, United Nations Conference Centre, Addis Ababa: Today, Ethiopia joined the global World Children’s Day celebrations by giving children high profile roles to become champions of their...
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‘BABY WASH’ boosted at this year’s World Toilet Day in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, 15 November 2017 – Today, Ethiopia celebrated World Toilet Day by holding a half-day workshop with the theme “Safe Disposal of Child Faeces.” At the workshop, the national ‘Baby WASH’...
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The Government of Sweden grants US$ 2.5 million to UNICEF for emergency response
The Government of Sweden provides another US$2.5 million to UNICEF Ethiopia to support Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), health and nutrition programmes in the drought affected regions of Afar,...
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Girls’ Club Rescues Girls from Child Marriage in Rural Ethiopia
By Martha Tadesse ZIGEM WOREDA, AMHARA REGION, 06 OCTOBER 2017 – “I went to the police station when my parents told me that I am getting married,” says Mestawet Mekuria,14, a 7th grader in Ayti Primary...
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Researchers in Action for African children
Researchers from around the continent are gathered this week in Addis Ababa to Put Children First! In Africa, two billion babies will be born between today and 2050, translating into more than 60...
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WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International urge to sustain the polio-free status of...
24 October 2017, Addis Ababa: Today, as the world commemorates World Polio Day, we, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and Rotary International, reaffirm our commitment to building on the...
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Sweden Signs an Agreement with UNICEF to Build an Integrated Safety Net...
The Government avails US$ 9.2 million contribution to implement the programme in five years 12 October 2017, ADDIS ABABA – The Government of Sweden provided US$9.2 million to UNICEF Ethiopia to support...
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Japanese Support to make reliable water sources available in Gashamo
By Ayuko Matsuhashi Gashamo Woreda, Somali REGION, 6 September 2017 – What if you are told that the water you would have daily for drinking, cooking and bathing is rain-dependent and dries up into a...
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Ethiopia to Host the fourth Acting on the Call Conference of Ministers and...
Media Advisory What: The Ministry of Health will officially announce that Ethiopia will be hosting Acting on the Call conference of Ministers and high-level policy makers on maternal and child survival...
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Menstrual Hygiene in Ethiopia – the Importance of Including Boys in the...
By Jane Bevan and Kalkidan Gugsa ADDIS ABABA, 30 May 2017 – Daniel Worku, a 12-year-old from Sheno Primary School in Oromia region, admits he did not know much about menstruation and thought it only an...
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Promotion of Dietary Diversity for the Healthy Growth and Development of...
By Esete Yeshitla Sekota, AMHARA, 21 June 2017- Meet Netsanet, a strong and independent 25-year-old mother who is very self-assured; reminiscent of her name, which means ‘freedom’. When we visit...
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Child Birth Registration Sets Hope for Protecting Children’s Basic Rights
By Esete Yeshitla MECHA, AMHARA, 09 June 2017 – Mulugeta Yetayew and his wife Yezena Adane, both in their early 40s, warmly welcome us inside their rustic one-room cottage which serves as a bedroom and...
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Markets and Menstruation
Women sell local products in Wukro market, Tigray region. ©UNICEF/2016/Carazo By Blanca Carazo WUKRO, TIGRAY, 6 December 2016 – It was Monday morning when we came across the bustling market in Wukro....
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