Press release
Inter Miami CF Foundation and UNICEF partner to support children’s education across Latin America and the Caribbean
MIAMI/NEW YORK, 21 February 2025 - , The Inter Miami CF Foundation and UNICEF announced a new global partnership today that will support access to quality education programmes for children in five countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. As part of a three-year partnership, funds raised will support chil...
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Learning Passport Honduras
The Educatrachos-Learning Passport Honduras is a learning platform that provides educational content spanning from early childhood to secondary education. It includes content of the formal curricula, alongside skills development opportunities for adolescents. In Honduras, this platform has proven instrumental in a...
Statement
Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Garry Conille on the tragic and violent event at a women's prison in Honduras
Panama City, Panama, 21 June 2023, - “I’m saddened to hear that dozens of women died due to the violent incident at the Penitenciaria Nacional Femenina de Adaptación Social in Honduras. UNICEF regrets all these deaths, and we express our solidarity with their families. “Some of the women were living with their children in detention. These children are now left behind and highly…
Photo essay
Families and childhood on the move, Guatemala-Honduras border
The heat is humid and intense, misty. The noise is deafening: dozens of trucks and trailers keep their engines running. Some drivers desperately go for the klaxons because they have been trying to pass immigration control at the El Cinchado border pass between Guatemala and Honduras for hours, but transit is slow,...
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Ensuring all children in Honduras can learn
Honduras in Numbers, Honduras in Numbers We are committed to ensuring that the most excluded children and adolescents have access to quality and inclusive education at the preschool, primary and secondary education levels, are able to learn, remain in school and complete all learning cycles. We work together with ...
Statement
UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta Fore's Remarks at Virtual Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
NEW YORK, 20 April 2021-, "Excellencies. Thank you for focusing on this important issue — one that affects hundreds of thousands of people on the move across the northern triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, as well as Mexico. "Two years ago, a young woman in San Pedro Sula told me: 'We are not migrating to have nicer lives — we are migrating to…, #####
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Honduras receives first doses of COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX mechanism
TEGUCIGALPA, M.D.C., Honduras, 13 March 2021, - The first COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived today in Honduras through the COVAX mechanism, a global effort between the Coalition for Promotion of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the World Health Organiz...
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EU humanitarian aid contributes EUR945,000 to support UNICEF’s humanitarian response for children and families affected by Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala
PANAMA, 08 February 2021, - The devastating impacts of hurricanes Eta and Iota in Central America, on 4 and 17 November 2020 respectively, have left nearly 9.3 million people affected, including an estimated 3.5 million children. At the onset of the emergency thousands of families were displaced into shelters with...
News note
Japan contributes US$2.2 million to UNICEF’s emergency response for hurricane-affected children in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala
PANAMA CITY, 28 January 2021, - The Government of Japan has contributed $2.2 million to UNICEF’s emergency response for the most vulnerable families affected by Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. The contribution will ensure that over more than 35,000 children and parents can benefit f...
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Back-to-back hurricanes in Central America left at least 1.5 million children at risk of severe diseases due to water contamination
PANAMA CITY, 22 January 2021 –, More than two months after the onset of powerful hurricanes Eta and Iota, over 1.5 million children are still exposed to life-threatening diseases in Central America as many water systems including wells and latrines have been contaminated, said today UNICEF Regional Director for La...
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UNICEF appeals for US$42.6 million to deliver humanitarian assistance in hurricane-struck Central America
PANAMA CITY, 19 November 2020, – With powerful hurricanes battering Central America twice in less than two weeks, UNICEF is urgently appealing for US$42.6 million to meet the most critical humanitarian needs of over 646,000 people hit repeatedly by deadly floods and landslides in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and...
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Urgent appeal for children and families affected by Hurricanes Eta and Iota
Hurricane Eta made landfall on 3 November on the northern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, with 240 km/h winds. The storm continued moving slowly inland and left a trail of destruction across Central American countries. Heavy rainfalls led to catastrophic, lifethreatening flash flooding and river flooding, along with...