UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

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Ibrahim Kondeh, a 20-year-old from Sierra Leone, stands outside the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome

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Ibrahim Kondeh, advocate for migrant youth in Italy

From Sierra Leone to Italy: a personal diary shows what it means to be a young migrant

family eating at home in a low-income neighbourhood_Alimzhan Jorobayev

Press release

22 October 2019

Addressing double burden of malnutrition must be prioritized in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – UNICEF

Children eating

Press release

08 October 2019

Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide, warns UNICEF

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Rita Ora: “I feel inspired working with UNICEF"

UNICEF UK Ambassador

A woman holds a child

Press release

14 October 2019

Nearly 70,000 children displaced as violence escalates in northeast Syria

Boy holding fruit

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In Kazakhstan, eating well can be a daily struggle

A boy and his mother explain why sticking to a healthy diet is hard when temptation is around every corner.

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Omar (17), front, with his fellow housemates on the balcony at the reception centre where they stay in the small village of Naro, in Sicily, Italy

Protecting refugee and migrant children

Sonia, 14 remembers the teachers helping to her calm down.

Supporting children caught in conflict in Ukraine

A young child receives polio vaccine at the Kizil Oy Village Primary Health Clinic in Zomin district in Jizzakh region.

Ensuring all children receive life-saving vaccines

On 17 May 2018 in Belarus, three-year-old Agatha laughs with her mother, Ekaterina, at home in Minsk, the capital.

Ending institutionalization and keeping families together