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Khadija’s family

Safe Drinking Water – a source of health and happiness

With funds from Japan, UNICEF provides safe and sufficient water to communities hosting registered Afghan refugees in KP

Nadia Maitlo at the UNICEF-supported Non-Formal Education Centre

Transforming Girls Education in a Reluctant Community

A young teacher’s resolve to educate out of school adolescent girls

Farzana

Learning Continues for Children Affected by Floods

UNICEF provides High Performance Tents to ensure safe learning environment for children of flood-affected communities in South Punjab

Mehreen

Water: essential for all, available to a few

Hope reignites among flood-affected families after months without safe drinking water

Children at the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistan run past parked trucks, smuggling goods to sell back home.

Short but perilous: Children’s smuggling journey

Hiding under moving trucks, children risk their lives smuggling goods – and themselves – across the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistan

a girl drinking water

More than 10 million people, including children, living in Pakistan’s flood-affected areas still lack access to safe drinking water - UNICEF

Noorullah

Displaced by the river

Children and families uprooted by the floods struggle to survive Pakistan’s harsh winters

Children sit beside a pond of contaminated flood water near Zangi Brohi Village, Dadu District, Sindh.

17 January 2023

UNICEF: Pakistan’s rains may have stopped, but children are still dying

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

children stand in front of a pool of stagnant flood water

09 January 2023

Historic flooding in Pakistan is a reminder that governments and partners must put children at the centre of efforts to build resiliency

Statement by Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan

Humaira 8 years old, who have taken refuge with her family on higher roadside in Mirpur Khas District, Sindh Province, Pakistan.

09 January 2023

Up to 4 million children in Pakistan still living next to stagnant and contaminated floodwater

Child survival crisis remains acute in flood-affected areas as rates of respiratory infections and severe acute malnutrition soar