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Health and Nutrition
UNICEF helps to improve healthcare services that can respond promptly to the needs of Venezuelan children and adolescents.
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Balanced and diverse diet to protect children from malnutrition
A fresh breeze blows through Don Pedro School, located in Terrazas de las Acacias, 20 minutes from downtown Caracas. Here, nearly 800 students find shelter under the constant shadow of the cabins of the cable car system that crosses the sky above this community. At the heart of the educational center is the Santa ...
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"We have managed to reduce the incidence of diseases that were previously fatal in children"
The Lower Delta area is part of the Antonio Díaz municipality, in the state of Delta Amacuro. It is one of the most remote and hard-to-reach locations in Venezuela and is also home to thousands of Warao indigenous people. "It is one of the municipalities most affected by all the nutritional conditions, as well as ...
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Anita overcame malnutrition with UNICEF's help and today continues to receive comprehensive support
Anita lives in the Etnia Guajira sector, a Wayuu settlement near the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela. She smiles, plays, and attends school regularly. But four years ago, her situation was very different: she was affected by acute malnutrition and her relatives feared she would not survive. The intervent...
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UNICEF implements nutrition and WASH plans focused on vulnerable families in Venezuela
At the foot of a mountain, surrounded by lush greenery and a cool climate, lives Mathías, a two-year-old boy. His family resides in Ruiz Pineda, a Caracas neighborhood where houses are clustered closely together. This proximity has fostered a strong sense of community. A drainage canal in front of their home prote...
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UNICEF Venezuela Annual Report 2022
The year 2022 was marked by a special date for UNICEF in Venezuela: the celebration of 55 years of presence in the country. There have been decades of effort to guarantee the strengthening of the rights of children and adolescents, hand in hand with government institutions, civil society, citizens and the children...
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UNICEF approves a new Cooperation Program with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) approved a new cooperation program with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the period 2023-2026, to advance the fulfillment of the rights of children and adolescents. The approval of the cooperation program was completed during the first ordinary ...
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55 years in Venezuela for the rights of children and adolescents
logtema del 55 aniversario de UNICEF en Venezuela, UNICEF, is the, United Nations Children's Fund, and works tirelessly in more than 191 countries for the rights of children, especially the most vulnerable. The origin of, UNICEF, dates back to the time after the Second World War, when millions of children suffered...
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“I like my peanut butter a lot, is delicious"
Javielis is Luciano's mother, he is 3 years old. They live in Coro, at Falcón state, in northwest Venezuela. Months ago, Javielis noticed changes in Luciano's appetite and behavior, she got worried and began to seek help. “As a mother, I worried at the moment I saw he was irregularly eating and was losing weight. ...
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Information of UNICEF Venezuela
UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund and works in more than 190 countries and territories to promote and protect the rights of all children and adolescents, as established in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Venezuela, as in the world, UNICEF works in a coordinated manner with national, state,...
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“Helping mothers keep their children alive”
Etnia Guajira is an indigenous community located on the outskirts of Maracaibo, Venezuela, almost nine hours from Caracas. For more than 25 years ethnic Wayuú families have lived in the community, getting closer to the city in order to improve their living conditions. They built their houses with what is availab...