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Elaha in class

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Elaha - an inspiration to other girls

Determined and dedicated to learning and receiving an education

Three boys washing their hands

News note

15 October 2018

“Clean hands save lives”

A girl walking down the hill

Article

Shakila smiles again

Aiding a child from being plunged into the bitter world of child marriage

Basriya in the classroom

Article

One girl’s passion becomes means of empowerment for girls

Basirya helps teach out-of-school girls, at a UNICEF-supported accelerating learning centre (ALC) in Kandahar

UNICEF Executive Director

Press release

30 September 2018

UNICEF ED Henrietta Fore to visit India to discuss key issues related to children and young people

Khadija, 2 years old, being vaccinated in Herat, Afghanistan.

Article

Reaching the most at risk children

Japan supports vaccination of Afghan children

Our work in Afghanistan

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Child protection

Girls in a classroom at a UNICEF supported child friendly school in Kabul.

Education

A mother holds her two days old son’s hand after giving birth in the Herat Maternity Hospital in western Afghanistan.

Health

A baby eats Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food to complement the therapeutic milk she received as part of her treatment for severe acute malnutrition.

Nutrition

A young girl receives polio vaccine drops at the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Polio eradication

A boy drinks clean water from a hand pump at a school in Faizabad in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, Afghanistan.

WASH: Water, sanitation and hygiene