Umara is assessed for malnutrition at Muna Garage camp for
internally displaced persons in north-east Nigeria.After
20 days of therapeutic feeding to treat severe acute malnutrition at a
UNICEF-supported clinic, Umara increased his weight from just 4.2kg to
5.1kg 
Nearly 50 million children at risk as conflict and disaster engulf 48 countries.
From
Syria to Yemen and Iraq, from South Sudan to Nigeria, children are
affected by relentless conflicts and displacement crises, as well as
devastation wrought by natural disasters. To reach those in greatest
need, US$3.3 billion is needed by UNICEF to assist 81 million people in
2017, including 48 million children in 48 countries across the globe.
Here are some of these children:
Drought
has left Alinafe’s fields barren and her youngest daughter Desire
suffering from severe acute malnutrition. (From left) Janet, 10, Kelvin,
8, their mother Alinafe, Desire, 2, and Innocent, 6, eat their daily
meal of dried peas at home in Balaka district, Malawi.
After
20 days of therapeutic feeding to treat severe acute malnutrition at a
UNICEF-supported clinic, Umara increased his weight from just 4.2kg to
5.1kg. Umara is assessed for malnutrition at Muna Garage camp for
internally displaced persons in north-east Nigeria.
Lying
on a bed in the Abs hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate,
five-year-old Mohanned is suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
Although Mohanned’s health has been deteriorating for the past two
years, his family were unable to afford the cost of bringing him for
treatment.
Despite
setbacks, more than 300,000 children in South Sudan were provided with
access to education in 2016. In the Protection of Civilians site in
Malakal, twelve-year-old Chubat (right) sits with her friend in the
burnt-out ruins of a UNICEF-supported primary school she attended.
“I
thought I was going to die. I thought my family would all die” said
Mylove Théogène (right), 8, after hurricane Matthew destroyed her home
in Jérémie, Haiti. More than 175,000 people were displaced by the
tropical storm and more than 800,000 require life-saving assistance.
[NAMES
CHANGED] In Cameroon’s Minawao refugee camp, Nigerian refugee Fati, 15,
was reunited with her mother (left) after being freed from Boko Haram
captivity and referred to a family reunification service. The conflict
has displaced 2.4 million people across the Lake Chad basin region.
Forced
to leave home with his family nearly two years ago when his dad was
killed by a sniper, eight-year-old Maxim attends a psychotherapeutic
centre in eastern Ukraine to help him with his trauma. More than 207,000
children and their caregivers received psychosocial support in 2016.
(Left)
Abdulghani, 9, and his brother Hassan, 6, wait to fill jerry cans at a
water well in eastern Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic. UNICEF and partners
trucked up to 1.5 billion litres of water and delivered more than 4
million litres of fuel to run the pumping stations in the city in 2016.
Rafi,
3, smiles as he sits on a box of winter clothing his family received
during a distribution at Kawergosk Syrian Refugee Camp in Erbil
Governorate, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In 2016, some 300,000
children across Iraq received warm winter clothing from UNICEF.
“All children should be with their parents,” said Nyaruot, 14, after receiving the news that she and her sisters Nyaliep, 3, (centre) and Nyachan, 11, (right) would be reunited with their mother after conflict forced them apart, in the Bor Protection of Civilians site, South Sudan.
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