UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

From across the region

Girl rolling dough

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The new normal, in the time of COVID-19

In this new lifestyle and rhythm, everyone is doing their best in trying to adjust.

Macedonia education

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Keeping education on track in North Macedonia

Rapidly expanded remote learning programmes give children a ‘learning lifeline’ and a sense of normalcy.

Children line up for fruit juice in the Reception and Identification Centre in Moria

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The UN launches humanitarian response plan

COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan

USA

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7 ways employers can support working parents during COVID-19

Children around the world need support from their parents right now. And parents need support from their employers.

A boy stands in the Reception and Identification Centre at Vathi, on the island of Samos, in Greece.

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Refugee and migrant communities brace for pandemic

UNICEF calls for immediate transfer of vulnerable children to the Greek mainland, in-line with most recent public health measures and guidelines 

Croatia equipment

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UNICEF delivered 4 tons of medical equipment to Croatia

Together against coronavirus

Our work

Omar (17), front, with his fellow housemates on the balcony at the reception centre where they stay in the small village of Naro, in Sicily, Italy

Protecting refugee and migrant children

Sonia, 14 remembers the teachers helping to her calm down.

Supporting children caught in conflict in Ukraine

A young child receives polio vaccine at the Kizil Oy Village Primary Health Clinic in Zomin district in Jizzakh region.

Ensuring all children receive life-saving vaccines

On 17 May 2018 in Belarus, three-year-old Agatha laughs with her mother, Ekaterina, at home in Minsk, the capital.

Ending institutionalization and keeping families together