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Girls at a classroom in a settlement for returnees
Nooria Nurse Gardez Hospital
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Nurse Nooria

UNICEF and the World Bank collaborate to improve healthcare services in Afghanistan

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Group of women in Herat at Ansari Vocational Training center, Afghanistan
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Learning, earning, healing and giving back

How UNICEF-supported vocational training centers for women and girls are combatting mental health challenges and poverty in western Afghanistan

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Newly rehabilitated ablution blocks with hand-washing facilities for girls, boys and their teachers in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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How clean hands and healthy tummies lead to full attendance

Restoring the rights and dignity of students and teachers through new sanitation and water systems in Afghanistan

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Photo essay
Hamed’s journey: 11 days of uncertainty, fear and regret

One 15-year-old journey's to Iran and back, in search of a better life

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Sam and Parwana at Herat, Afghanistan
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Parwana, one year on

One year ago, she was so severely malnourished, I feared she wouldn’t make it. Today, Parwana skips, giggles and nags her mum to get her to school on time.

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On 20 September 2022, Children look happy and cool in Kaldar district, Mazar. They are in different grades of school. The health clinic in this district provides them with safe and healthy services, which are fully supported by UNICEF, and recently night shift maternity services are being started.
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This new 24-hour clinic is a prescription for good health

In a remote clinic in Afghanistan, nurses on the new night shift provide relief and reassurance for underserved mothers and infants

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An Afghan girl shows the purple ink mark on her finger, indicating she has been vaccinated against polio during an immunization campaign in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan.

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Ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths

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Protecting Afghanistan’s most vulnerable children

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