Campaign
Staying and delivering for children
Children are caught up in crises not of their own making. Displaced from their homes at record levels. Cut off from care as global health threats re-emerge. Deprived of schooling and made vulnerable to organized violence. They cannot be left to endure on their own. With partners big and small, UNICEF operates in m...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
NEW YORK, 5 March 2025, – “Announced and anticipated funding cuts will limit UNICEF’s ability to reach millions of children in dire need. “These cuts by numerous donor countries follow two years of aid reductions at a time of unprecedented need. Millions of children are affected by conflict, need to be vaccinated...
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 after...
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UNICEF for the Children of Ukraine
The situation in Ukraine The war in Ukraine threatens the lives and futures of 7.5 million children - terrified, in shock and in desperate need of safety. Millions of people have been forced to emigrate, 90% of them women and children. Many families are being separated from their loved ones. In eastern Ukraine, wh...
Press release
Six months of war in Ukraine: Nearly 1,000 children killed or injured
Sofia, 24, August 2022, – The children and families of Ukraine have been living for six months amidst devastation or have been forced to flee their homes. At least 972 children in Ukraine have been killed or injured by violence since the start of the war in February, UN data show. This means that an average of ove...
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The story of Anastasia from Ukraine
“It is very important that all children who come to Bulgaria and other countries do not feel alone. They need to find their place, where they can put their energy into creativity.” – Anastasia, a refugee from Ukraine, who works at the newly-opened UNICEF Blue Dot Refugee Children and Family Support Centre in Varna...
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The story of Natalia and her family from Ukraine
“My son, the oldest of my two children, can’t wait to start school. We submitted the applications and now we are waiting to find out which kindergarten and school the children are going to attend” – Natalia, mother of two children aged 5 and 10. The family left Ukraine, came under fire, but managed to escape. We m...
News note
UNICEF and Partners launch "Welcome to School" Campaign
Sofia, August 17, 2022., Less than a month until the start of the new school year in Bulgaria. Following more than two years of pandemic and more than half a year of war in Ukraine return to school is seen as a chance for an entire generation to recover from the crisis of disrupted learning and to access additiona...
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Family trying to rebuild after tragedy in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine
Nataliya’s family was one of the many caught up in the tragedy at Kramatorsk railway station in April, when a missile hit and injured hundreds who were fleeing fighting at home. 11-year-old Yaroslav was the only one to escape serious injury. Nataliya, who had taken her 11-year-old daughter Yana to the platform to ...
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UNHCR and UNICEF Bulgaria open a support centre for refugees from Ukraine ‘Blue Dot‘ in Varna
Varna,, 13, July 2022, – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bulgaria, in partnership with the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC), the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) and representatives of the refugee community, today inaugurated a Blue Dot Safe S...
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The UNICEF Representative in Bulgaria met the President of the Republic of Bulgaria
Bulgaria will provide support to children and families seeking protection from the military conflict in Ukraine. This stated President Rumen Radev during a meeting of Dondukov 2 with the UNICEF Representative in Bulgaria, Christina de Bruin. Both noted the long-standing fruitful partnership and the good results a...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on reported attack against maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine
NEW YORK, 9 March 2022, – “I am horrified by the reported attack today on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine – an attack which reportedly left young children and women in labor buried beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings. We do not yet know the number of casualties but fear the worst. “This attack, if...