The Issue

The Issue

EU supported projects

EU supported projects

UNICEF in Action

UNICEF in Action

Conflict affected areas

Conflict affected areas

 

Conflict affected areas

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UNICEF distributing emergency supplies to the displaced women and children from South Ossetia

UNICEF works in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to meet survival and developmental needs of children living in conflict-affected areas.

UNICEF, in conjunction with HALO Trust and Rainbow Rehabilitation Centre, organizes a summer camp in Sukhumi every year for children injured by landmines and their families. The aim of the project is to create a safe and encouraging environment for children and teenagers injured by mines. The programme provides assistance to affected children and their family members in order to facilitate their rehabilitation, social integration and ensure their adequate psycho-social development.

The programme supports the development of life skills in mine-affected children such as trust, communication, interpersonal relations, group formation, creative thinking, physical rehabilitation and psycho-social cooperation.

UNICEF has provided new vaccine refrigerators to needy hospitals and children’s polyclinics in Abkhazia. Hospital staff were briefed on the proper usage of vaccine refrigerators (which are powered by both electricity and gas) to prepare them for possible power outages; they were also trained on optimal practices for storing and monitoring vaccines.

The supply delivery was coordinated and supervised by UNICEF, together with the assistance of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). UNOMIG, UNICEFand UNHCR cooperate on another large distribution project in Abkhazia, this one providing school supplies and sports equipment to Abkhazian schools.