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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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