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<H2> UNICHO's work </H2> |
<H2> Act Now </H2> |
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United Nations International Child Healthcare Organization (UNICHO) saves children’s lives,
defends their rights, and helps them fulfil their potential.
UNICHO was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles
that poverty, violence, disease and the discrimination place in a child’s path. We believe that we
can, together, advance the cause of humanity.
The objects of UNICHO is to provide financial or other assistance to children and their families
without discrimination of religion, cast, creed, color, sex or language. Our protection, shelter,
health and education has been crucial, healing broken pasts and building brighter futures.
We advocate for measures to give children the best start in life, because proper care at the
youngest age forms the strongest foundation for a person’s future.
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<H4> Emergency response has always been at the heart of UNICHO’s mission. </H4> |
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UNICHO works with partner NGOs in every sector around the globe to co-create innovative
solutions that accelerate progress for children and young people.
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There are children in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
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<H4> We campaign to transform the lives of seriously ill children </H4> |
<H4> By supporting our campaigns you can help us make sure that children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families have the best quality of life and quality of end of life care. Your support could help make a crucial difference in your local area and across the world. </H4> |
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UNICHO’s International Donors Panel (UIDP) is a board of our global members, lightening our
vision and responsibility that connects all our donors globally in the role of Shaping Children’s
Future Development, Implementation and Effectiveness without boundaries.
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United Nations International Child Healthcare Organization (UNICHO) uses the term ‘child
protection’ to refer to preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against
children – including commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labor and harmful
traditional practices, such as child marriage.
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UNICHO’s child protection programmes also target children who are uniquely vulnerable to
these abuses, such as when living without parental care, in conflict with the law and in armed
conflict. Violations of the child’s right to protection take place in every country and are massive,
under-recognized and under-reported barriers to child survival and development, in addition to
being human rights violations.
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Children subjected to violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect are at risk of death, poor physical
and mental health, HIV/AIDS infection, educational problems, displacement, homelessness,
vagrancy and poor parenting skills later in life.
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Child protection is an issue in every country and a high priority for UNICHO. Under the
Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international treaties, all children have the right
to be protected from harm.
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<H6> A Protective Environment for all Children </H6> |
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Preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse is essential to ensuring children’s
rights to survival, development and well-being. The vision and approach of UNICHO is to create a
protective environment, where girls and boys are free from violence, exploitation, and
unnecessary separation from family; and where laws, services, behaviors and practices minimize
children’s vulnerability, address known risk factors, and strengthen children’s own resilience.
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Around the world more than 10 million children under the age of five die every year and the
world's poorest countries continue to bear the burden of these deaths. Levels of under-5
mortality vary widely across countries – from 4 to over 280 deaths per 1000 live births. About 41
percent of under-5 deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and another 34 percent in South Asia.
Child health has been high on the international agenda for over two decades now.
Unfortunately, this goal was not met.
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In 2018, 6.2 million children and young adolescents died, mostly from preventable causes.
Children under the age of 5 accounted for 5.3 million of these deaths – nearly half of whom were
newborn babies. The main causes of deaths in low-income countries are diarrhoea, pneumonia,
measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and for deaths among the neonates asphyxia, pre-term delivery,
sepsis and tetanus. The major underlying cause of death is undernutrition, including
micronutrient deficiencies, among children younger than 5 years, which is a determinant in more
than 50% of deaths.
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UNICHO works to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths by scaling up essential
maternal and newborn care services, sustaining immunization programmes, and supporting
preventive, promotive and curative services for pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and other all
types of child health conditions.
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On any given school day, over 1 billion children around the world head to class. More children
and adolescents today are enrolled in pre-primary, primary and secondary education than ever
before. Yet, for many of them, schooling does not lead to learning. A lack of trained teachers,
inadequate learning materials, makeshift classes and poor sanitation facilities make learning
difficult for many children. Others come to school too hungry, sick or exhausted from work or
household tasks to benefit from their lessons. The consequences are grave: An estimated 617
million children and adolescents around the world are unable to reach minimum proficiency
levels in reading and mathematics – even though two thirds of them are in school. This learning
crisis is the greatest global challenge to preparing children and adolescents for life, work and
active citizenship.
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What’s more, roughly one in five school-aged children are not in school at all. Children and
adolescents are excluded from education for many reasons. Poverty remains one of the most
obstinate barriers, with children from the poorest households almost five times more likely to be
out of primary school than those from the richest. Children with disabilities and from ethnic
minorities are also more likely to be left behind.
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For girls in some parts of the world, education opportunities can be especially limited. Only 66
per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in primary education. Harmful gender norms
can have severe effects for boys, too. Location also keeps children from school. Children from
rural areas are more than twice as likely to be out of primary school than their urban peers. In
conflict zones, 27 million children are out of school. Without skills for lifelong learning, children
face greater barriers to earning potential and employment later in life. They are more likely to
suffer adverse health outcomes and less likely to participate in the decisions that affect them –
threatening their ability to build a better future for themselves and their communities.
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All children have the right to go to school and learn, regardless of who they are, where they live
or how much money their family has. Quality learning requires a safe, friendly environment,
qualified and motivated teachers, and instruction in languages students can understand. It also
requires that learning outcomes be monitored and feed back into instruction.
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UNICHO works to build a world in which every child learns. This includes making targeted efforts
for children who are excluded on the basis of gender, disability, poverty, ethnicity and language,
as well as those who are displaced or affected by emergencies.
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UNICHO is committed to reducing children’s vulnerability to emergencies, ensuring their right to
survival and development after an emergency and providing the support they and their families
need to quickly recover and re-establish their lives, dignity and livelihoods.
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Our goal is to mount emergency responses that are timely, at appropriate scale and scope,
providing high quality programming, efficiently, effectively, safely and securely for the most
vulnerable children and their families. Our aim is to increase preparedness of children and their
families for emergency situations in the aftermath of natural disasters through child-centred and
community-based approaches. We also aim to manage disasters better, minimize the impact of
natural disasters to communities in disaster prone areas and build child-centred resilient
communities.
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Every child deserves to reach her or his full potential, but gender inequalities in their lives and in
the lives of those who care for them hinder this reality. Girls and boys see gender inequality in
their homes and communities every day – in textbooks, in the media and among the men and
women who provide their care and support. Unequal responsibility for work in the home
socializes children into thinking that these duties are women’s only roles, thereby curtailing
generational change and narrowing girls’ ambitions.
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Boys and girls who witness gender-based violence in their homes are more likely to replicate
violent relationships as adults, either as perpetrator or victim. Outside the home, community
health workers – predominantly women – are often low-skilled and voluntary or underpaid, with
limited opportunity for professional growth to care for the vulnerable children and families they
serve. Yet, in early childhood gender disparities between girls and boys often start out relatively
small. Girls have higher survival rates at birth, are more likely to be developmentally on track,
and just as likely to participate in preschool.
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But, as girls and boys age, gender barriers expand. Chores, caring for siblings, and safety issues
keep girls out of school, while expectations of earning money force boys to dropout. By the time
children reach age 10, boys’ worlds often expand while girls’ worlds contract, resulting in
negative consequences that can last a lifetime. Menstruation remains taboo, and without
information, facilities and products to manage it, the health, welfare and educational prospects
for millions of adolescent girls around the world are hindered. Adolescent girls also have an
increased risk of gender-based violence – including sexual harassment – in times of both peace
and conflict.
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UNICHO works for quality maternal care, and the professionalization of the mostly female front-
line community health workers. We recognize and empower the role of women in the design
and delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene ecosystems.
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UNICHO has been grounded in innovation, disruption and “doing whatever it takes” for children
ever since UNICHO was founded that the world’s children actually have individual rights. This
vision, which was radical in its day and continues to propel us forward, served as an organization
for many of the present-day Sustainable Development Goals, and it has been the cornerstone of
our development approach ever since. Although we want to make tremendous progress globally,
millions of the most marginalized girls and boys are missing out on advances in health, education
and economic inclusion every day. Closing the gaps of inequality and disparity, starkly contrasted
with affluence and opportunity around the globe, are the major development challenges of the
next century. Our evolving world demands new solutions, and we want to doubling down and
investing in innovation. This is necessary to meet the true needs of the hardest-to-reach children
and communities. UNICHO tries its best to expert on children with a footprint in many countries
around the world, UNICHO has unparalleled strengths as an innovator. Our ability to not just
develop and test innovative solutions but also dramatically scale what works allows us to create
lasting, systemic change for children. We always wanted to ensure we are giving more children a
chance at survival, education and protection – so they have the future they deserve. It is only
through new innovations that we will truly be able to change the world for the most
marginalized children. We invite you to join us.
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Hunger is a problem that most often affects low-income families, because living in poverty
means that people are often going without basic needs such as food, clothing, and adequate
shelter.
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In order for a child to have a chance at a bright future, they need to eat healthy meals every day.
When they’re hungry, children are more likely to be hospitalized, and they face a higher risk of
health conditions because they have weakened immune systems. A brain starved of vital
nutrients is one that can’t concentrate, setting hungry kids up for failure in school.
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Even if they are consuming an adequate volume of food, children may not be receiving enough
of the vitamins and minerals they need to grow up healthy, and are therefore malnourished.
Without enough food or proper nutrition, kids face a variety of setbacks that can derail their
path out of poverty.
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Every year, 3.1 million children (8,500 children per day) die due to poor nutrition. Today, there
are 815 million people in the world who do not have enough to eat. Approximately 28% of all
children in developing countries are considered to be underweight, or have had their growth
stunted as a result of malnutrition. Worldwide, malnutrition contributes to almost half of the
deaths of kids under the age of 5, claiming the lives of over 3 million children per year.
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<H6> This is why UNICHO has come forward with Foodbank Project. </H6> |
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Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a
single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward
encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.
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UNICHO forms "The Homeless Home Project" to protect the children and their families from the
Insecurity of homelessness.
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Homelessness persists on a vast scale in both rich and poor countries because of economic and
political disregard for the human rights of the poor. A homeless person is the one who cannot
afford a housing or are unable to maintain a regular and safe shelter.
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According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP), more than 90
percent of homeless women and children are the victims of domestic violence which results in
their escaping from their homes
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<H6> This is why UNICHO has come forward with The Homeless Home Project. </H6> |
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