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How UNICEF works to protect the rights of every child in Pacific.

Children on Tanna Island Vanuatu

UNICEF works with and for disadvantaged children and adolescents across the Pacific Islands. Our ambition is to get the entire country working together - as one - on behalf of its most vulnerable children. Explore the different areas of our work below.                  

Baby 1 day old boy, name Uaea.

Health and nutrition

 
2018's first baby - a girl named Vilisi Ciri Sovocala - was born at 1.44 am on New Year's Day in Suva, the island capital of Fiji.

Child protection

 
3-year-old Penina, a kindergarten Tialeniu School student, posing for a photograph during class, in Fakaofo Atoll, Tokelau.

Education

Ana, 11, bathing using tap water in Lawaki village, Tailevu Province.

Water, sanitation and hygiene

 
Mother holding her baby.

Early childhood development

 
Children playing in a trampoline at a school yard of Matavala School in Atafu Atoll, Tokelau.

Social inclusion

 
Jack Norris Kalmet Minister of Health Vanuatu with representatives of the drone contractors, nurses Dominc Bule and Roslinda Takrawan and children of SMART sistas at the launch of the Vanuatu Drone trails for Vaccine delivery, Efate Island, Vanuatu.

Innovation

 
Teniou, 9, sits on a mangrove in an area which usually floods at high tide in Tebunginako village, Abaiang Atoll, South Tarawa, Kiribati, Saturday 30 January 2016.

Disaster risk reduction and emergencies

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A child smiling in school.
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Joana and vilisi at the CMW Post Natal ward. baby Vilis was the first baby born in 2018.
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Far up a hillside in the distance General Nurse Dominic, from Melsisi Mini Hospital, trekking accross the mountainous Pentecost Island to deliver the vaccine order to the remote Tsingbwege Dispensary.
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Delivering WASH supplies to communities affected by Cyclone Winston on Koro Island
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