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Learn, Play, and Save the planet with LEGO.
In a bustling classroom in Cairo, 30 excited students gathered on a warm day to embark on a non-traditional learning journey. Their aim was to address climate change, a pressing issue that not only presents a global challenge but also disproportionately impacts children . Through UNICEF's "Learning through Play" ...
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THE BAXTER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION AND UNICEF PARTNER TO EXPAND ACCESS TO SAFE WATER AND SANITATION IN EGYPT
Program is designed to deliver prevention-focused, climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for families and children in Egypt Builds upon existing partnership that is improving water security in Colombia DEERFIELD, Ill. and NEW YORK, November 28, 2023 - The Baxter International Foundation, ...
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Nearly 300,000 children affected in Libya after Storm Daniel devastates entire communitie
NEW YORK/AMMAN/TRIPOLI, 14 September 2023 - Nearly 300,000 children are estimated to have been exposed to the powerful Storm Daniel across eastern Libya and a growing number of children and families are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, following significant damage to numerous homes, hospitals, schools...
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A friend of the trees from Alexandria
A few weeks before the start of the school year, Jihan took her son Mohammed, 11, to the Nasr Youth Center in Alexandria to attend a special event taking place in the city for the first time: a visit of the EGYouth4Climate Caravan. This was the caravan’s first stop at the north of the country few weeks after its v...
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Youth Voices from Delta on Climate Change
Starting its journey from the heart of Cairo, EGYouth4Climate Caravan has been roaming different governorates to raise awareness and give voice for youth on climate change. The caravan was launched on the 4 th of September by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Environment, and with the support of UNICEF...
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Water waste: between reality and fiction
With simple resources and great enthusiasm, schools’ theatres are the first place to explore children's talents. Many of us have childhood memories related to the first time we dared to confront the audience as young actors or singers. What if those memories were linked to information and a cause? The Azza Zeidan ...
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Children are at risk of climate change related hazards in the middle East and North Africa
AMMAN, 30 October 2022 – Today, UNICEF released the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region with a special focus on Egypt. The Index highlights the vulnerability of children living in many countries in the region to the impacts of climate change. Ahead of Egypt hostin...
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Children's Climate Risk Index: Egypt Report
The effects of climate change and environmental degradation are fast becoming more severe, and their consequences more visible around the world. The awareness of the urgency of a decisive response at all levels is also rising, making climate change and environmental degradation an increasingly prominent issue in p...
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“A Message from Egyptian Children to the World”
CAIRO, 16 October 2022- Today, the Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MoETE), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the ‘Climate Change Art Exhibition for School Students’. The exhibition displayed 200 climate change related art pieces drawn by students who participated in the ‘Natio...
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To address Climate change, behaviors need to be shifted
CAIRO, 29 September 2022 – Today, the J-PAL Middle East and North Africa Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Middle East and North Africa (J-PAL MENA) at The American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC) and UNICEF in Egypt, supported by Allianz Egypt Allianz Egypt , co-hosted a seminar ti...
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Summer Camps on Climate Change
Children in public schools are usually disconnected from school during the summer holidays. This year, though, children of Minya and Fayoum had a different experience that brought them back to school: summer camps on the environment and climate change. Through UNICEF's WASH program, these camps were implemented in...
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Fayoum Children and Climate Change
At Gamal Abd El-Nasser Primary School in Fayoum governorate in Upper Egypt, a couple of weeks before the end of 2022’s summer vacation, teachers and children organized an art exhibition as part of UNICEF-supported summer camps to raise awareness on climate change for the first time in the governorate. At the exhi...