CNN is reporting that a 7.0 earthquake has struck just off the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

Children are always the most vulnerable population in any natural disaster, and UNICEF is there for them.

We’ll keep you posted on disaster relief efforts here. In the meantime, if you would like to make a donation to support relief efforts for children in Haiti, you can do so online here.

New year, new beginnings. Brand new babies, too — all around the world.

Here is a Hteik Hteik Soe, holding her eight-day-old son in Taung Pet Village in the eastern Shan State of Myanmar.

If you are able to make a donation before midnight, December 31 your gift will be matched by an anonymous donor, doubling the impact of your support for UNICEF’s fight against the Silent Emergency of child malnutrition. Please spread the word among your friends and family!

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Last week we launched a campaign to raise $2 million by the end of the year to fight a “silent emergency” that’s killing children: malnutrition.

This week’s photo is from the village of Sullineabad, in India’s Bihar State, where some 29 percent of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition.

We’ve been reporting about the child malnutrition crisis quite a bit recently — in places as varied as Somalia, Yemen and the Philippines.

It’s a global crisis, but because it doesn’t get much coverage in mainstream media, it’s essentially a “silent emergency” for children.

On Friday, UNICEF released a Humanitarian Action Update for the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda), where some 500,000 children under the age of five are suffering from severe acute malnutrition due to ongoing drought, chronic food insecurity and conflict.

You can see the concern on this mother’s face as she feeds her severely malnourished child therapeutic milk at a UNICEF-supported feeding unit in Ethiopia.

Today is World AIDS Day.

UNICEF-supported programs provide care and education for millions of HIV-positive children, as well as those who are orphaned by the disease and those who are living with infected caregivers.

p>The importance of education and clean water are always on our minds around here, and this photo — of boys drinking safe water in a classroom in Rubingo School, a child-friendly school in a village in Rwanda’s Gasabo District — illustrates both.

Our latest Annual Report (click here to download a PDF) just came out, so I thought I’d share this fantastic UNICEF photo that’s featured on the cover: