Across the world’s youngest country, high levels of insecurity and renewed clashes are forcing millions of people to leave their homes, and leaving children critically malnourished and at risk. The situation is rapidly deteriorating and exposing children and their families to violence and life-threatening hunger and diseases. In Bentiu, UNICEF Canada President and CEO David Morley made the following statement.
UNICEF Canada commends the Government of Canada’s commitment to tie increases in the Canadian Child Benefit (CCB) to the cost of living, announced in the fall economic update yesterday. With a forecast for a significant reduction in the budget deficit, the first priority was to reinvest in Canada’s children. “This is what putting our kids first looks like,” said David Morley, President and CEO of UNICEF Canada.
The projected expansion in Africa’s child population will necessitate an increase of more than 11 million skilled education and health personnel by 2030, if it is to keep pace with the continent’s unprecedented demographic transition, UNICEF said today.
The coming winter is the latest threat to children affected by crises in the Middle East. As UNICEF races to provide warm clothing, winter supplies and blankets before the cold sets in, the organisation is facing a $60 million gap that could leave up to 1.5 million children exposed to the cold.
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UNICEF Canada has responded to today’s announcement by Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau of a relief fund to help scale up the humanitarian response to the Rohingya crisis near the Myanmar and Bangladesh border. UNICEF Canada President and CEO David Morley provided the following response.
In the past 48 hours, we have received shocking reports and photos of more attacks on children and education facilities in the besieged area of Eastern Ghouta in Rural Damascus.
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