Fieldnotes: Blogging on UNICEF's child survival work in the field

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[TV] The iconic UNICEF truck

Did you catch it last night, the shot of the UNICEF truck stuck in the middle of a river that had been a highway? Here's what our colleague Kini texted about it:

"You'll see Dr. Gupta doing a stand up from the top of a drowning UNICEF vehicle. Know that I'm in the back seat of that vehicle, up to my neck in water..."

Delivering relief supplies is not easy, but UNICEF makes it happen. I'm hoping to see more of UNICEF in action tonight.

Anderson Cooper gave some harsh stats on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but there was one I didn't hear him say that stands out for me:

DRC stats
The DRC ranks 8 out of 194 countries and territories in under-5 mortality.

You can read about what UNICEF is doing to change that at unicefusa.org/drc.

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