In Côte d’Ivoire, UNICEF supports children who continue to suffer the consequences of a civil conflict that broke out in 2002.
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| © UNICEF/HQ06-2763/Bruno Brioni Ilias, 2, a malnourished child, drinks a cup of fortified milk, while his smiling mother watches, in a health center the central city of Bouaké. UNICEF provides supplementary feeding and works with the World Food Program to provide monthly food rations, consisting of oil, soy and maize flour, rice, salt and beans, to area families. UNICEF also provides the center with voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and counselling, and essential medicines and supplies. |
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| © UNICEF/HQ06-2800/Bruno Brioni An infant is weighed at a hospital in Yopougon, a neighbourhood of Abidjan, the country’s commercial capital. UNICEF supports the hospital’s primary care and antenatal programs, including an initiative to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. |
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| © UNICEF/HQ06-2748/Bruno Brioni Maryam, 8 (left), and Aminata, 8 (right), stand outside their primary school in the north-eastern town of Bouna in the rebel-controlled zone. They are holding backpacks that bear the logos of UNICEF and the EU. Above their heads, the entrance to the school is decorated with the logos of the Ministry of Education, UNGEI, the EU and UNICEF, as well as with a campaign poster that shows a girl who wants to go to school. UNICEF helped rehabilitate the damaged school and now provides learning materials and teacher training. |
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| © UNICEF/HQ06-2758/Bruno Brioni Students poke their heads into their classroom, through the decorative holes of a concrete wall, at a UNICEF-assisted primary school in the village of Douakankro, near the central city of Bouaké in the rebel-controlled zone. |
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| © UNICEF/HQ06-2801/Bruno Brioni Boys watch their teacher write on the blackboard during a tutoring session at a primary school in the village of Béoué, near the western town of Man in the rebel-controlled zone. They are former child soldiers participating in a UNICEF-supported demobilization and reintegration program. The program, which has helped demobilize over 4,000 child soldiers, offers education, vocational training, psychosocial support and health care within an integrated community setting. One boy (foreground) wears a T-shirt showing a pink ‘X’ through the word ‘violence’ and bearing the program's slogan ‘Protect our Children’ (in French). |
Comments (1)
My name is Eva Charlene Te a United Nations Volunteer. I want to say thank you so much for drawing attention to the Ivory Coast's dire needs,especially its children.
Posted by Eva Charlene Te | August 9, 2007 1:24 PM
Posted on August 9, 2007 13:24