Press release
One month on, more than 850,000 children remain displaced by deadly earthquakes in southern Türkiye and Syria
ANKARA/DAMASCUS/AMMAN/GENEVA, 6 March 2023 – One month on from the two catastrophic earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and Syria, more than 850,000 children remain displaced after being forced from their damaged or destroyed homes. The number of children killed and injured during the quakes and their afterma...
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Programme Associate, (GS-6), Sofia, Bulgaria, # 551707 , Temporary appointment
APPLY NOW Job no: 551707 Contract type: Temporary Appointment, Fixed Term Appointment Duty Station: Sofia Level: G-6 Location: Bulgaria Categories: Emergency UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help...
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Pandemic, war and homeless children: how UNICEF helped children in the past year
Another wave of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the ensuing humanitarian crisis have left millions of children around the world homeless. The health, education and well-being of hundreds of thousands more children have been at risk. To fight child poverty, various campaigns of UNICEF Bulgaria and their benefa...
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The European Commission and UNICEF - supporting young children in Sliven district
The Home visiting services provided by the Center for Child and Maternal Health at the Medical Center "Dr. GV Mirkovich" in Sliven, targeted at families with children from 0 to 3 years, is one of the four model services supported by the European Commission under the Pilot project “Testing the Child Guarantee in th...
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Rowing in the same direction: a story of empathy and service from Bulgaria
How do you convince a community of people whose access to information is extremely limited, who live below the poverty line, and who often find it difficult to adhere to quarantine measures, to protect them from COVID-19? How do you persuade them to stay at home when their income mainly comes from gathering herbs ...
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A lesson in hope
Zahara, Jasmine, Sajad, Azis, Mustafa… The list of names of children who have found shelter in Bulgaria's refugee centres is long, and their stories are painfully alike. Stories of a missing family and home. These children survived, chased away by fear for their lives, looking for not only a safe place to live in,...