Uzbekistán

Historias reales

Uzbekistan: Health has rapidly deterioriated in a land where much has stayed the
Irgash and Bekzod look perfectly healthy as they play with a wheelbarrow in the garden of their home on Mahtumkuli farm. But the brothers both have goitre.

Drought plagues Uzbekistan as Aral Sea dries up
When Uzak was eleven, his father died of kidney cancer (a disease attributed to a prevalence of salt in the drinking water). Six years later, his brother's 31 year-old wife died in her sleep, and doctors refused to perform an autopsy "because it was a waste of time..."

Progress School offers ray of hope in parched Uzbekistan
Amidst the lethal salt and polluted eddies of the Aral Sea region, UNICEF helps to maintain an extraordinary school: It is a tale of Hope dancing in the face of Despair.