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		<title>Selena Gomez goes behind the scenes at the UNICEF Emergency Response Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annette Apitz , UNICEFUSA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been working especially hard to raise awareness of the catastrophic crisis unfolding right now in the Sahel region in Africa. It’s hard to fathom, but a million children could die if they are not given the urgent help they need.  The response from our supporters has been terrific, and we’re especially fortunate to have UNICEF Ambassador Selena Gomez on our team. The talented  actress, recording artist and designer has once again lent her support to UNICEF and spread the word about this crisis.  Recently, Selena visited OPSCEN—UNICEF’s Office of Emergency Operations Center—in New York, where she toured UNICEF’s behind-the-scenes operations, and recorded a PSA, urging people to donate to UNICEF’s emergency relief efforts in the Sahel.
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		<title>Redefining hunger in the Sahel region of Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extreme hunger is a horrific feeling. Millions are facing this predicament due to the current food crisis and severe droughts in the Sahel. As a current member of the UNICEF Campus Initiative Alumni Association, I am excited to support UNICEF and the children of Sahel through the Live Below the Line campaign. I invite you to join me on this campaign to live on a $1.50/day for food from May 7-11 and raise funds for UNICEF’s lifesaving work in the Sahel.]]></description>
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		<title>Selena Gomez encourages youth to help children in Sahel food crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actress, recording artist, designer and UNICEF Ambassador Selena Gomez is lending her star power to avert the deaths of a million children from malnutrition in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa.  "The situation is urgent and these children need our immediate help. I want people to know that together with UNICEF, we have the ability to prevent their deaths," she said. Selena followed-up her online activism with a public service announcement to encourage young people to donate $10 via text to avoid catastrophe in the Sahel.]]></description>
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		<title>Children under siege: Sahel food crisis worsening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking through the door into the intensive care ward, I am struck by sensory overload – children’s cries come seemingly from every direction; medical staff buzzing around me, inserting a feeding tube here, testing for malaria there; and an oppressive 104 degree heat from which there is no escape. This is the Intensive Nutritional Rehabilitation Center (CRENI) in the village of Madarounfa, south-eastern Niger, a hospital where children under age 5 are treated for severe acute malnutrition with complicating medical conditions. I have been here before, but somehow it has been transformed. Apart from the building structure itself and the familiar faces of the doctors and nurses, it is a different place entirely, almost unrecognizable.  As I adjust to the scene around me, I realize what has changed. When I was here three months ago, there were only six children undergoing treatment for severe acute malnutrition. Today, all 28 hospital beds are occupied.

It is a microcosm of the worsening crisis across the Sahel region of Africa, where drought, poor harvests and rising food prices have left an estimated 1 million children at risk of death from malnutrition.
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		<title>The Sahel crisis by the numbers: An inside look</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijita Kumar, UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The children of the Sahel are closer than you think. We are not hundreds but thousands of miles away from the unraveling crisis threatening the survival of 1 million children in the Sahel!   I can feel the pain and the impossible choices that families thousands of miles away continue to face each passing day and the urgent assistance they need.  Colleagues and partners in each of the eight country offices in the region diligently collate and share updates of the situation on the ground. UNICEF offices across the world receive Situation Reports or as we say in internal speak SitReps describing in great detail the first-hand on-ground realities and needs. The situation reports are our information lifeline.

These internal reports continue to be delivered to our inboxes and continue to warn us of the worsening situation and the need for urgent immediate aid to save 1 million children. 

To really give you a sense of what’s happening on the ground I wanted to share a SitRep covering all the eight countries and the overall situation.


We thank you for helping us sound the alarm but our work is far from done.  We need your support to continue to raise awareness for the crisis and to help ensure the survival of the 1 million children standing on the brink of death and disease as a result of the food and nutrition crisis.

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		<title>Trip to Haiti: Hope and faith for the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Haiti with an amazing UNICEF team to see the effects of the earthquake and the UNICEF programs that are helping children and their communities with the long-term recovery efforts. The power of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti hit home as we arrived in Champs de Mars, the center of Port-au-Prince.  In the first days of my trip seeing the effects of the earthquake on the city and the people, it all seemed so overwhelming, an impossible situation. How could you help? Where would you even begin?  However, as the days go by, a little light starts to glimmer through. Bit by bit, UNICEF is making progress.]]></description>
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		<title>Sounding the Alarm for Sahel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryl M. Stern, UNICEF USA President and CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a million children can be saved from life-threatening malnutrition, I believe it’s our duty to alert the world and ask for help.  If we wait for the situation to deteriorate, we are allowing more children to slide further down the spectrum of malnutrition to life-threatening levels. UNICEF is focused on the smallest, the sickest and the most gravely ill - the ones who are so malnourished they are unable to eat regular food. We can’t afford to wait until the crisis reaches hideous levels – we can stop this from happening – we can stop children from suffering and dying if we can raise the funds needed to respond to the need.]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching the unreached: An up close view of the unfolding Sahel crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is much talk these days of reaching the unreached. But as I drive with UNICEF colleagues through the remote Hodh Gharbi scrubland in Mauritania, in north-west Africa’s Sahel region, there is little sign of any outside effort making its way here where the whimpers and restlessness – the signs of hunger – haunt the mothers in one scattered home after another. UNICEF estimates that across the eight countries of the Sahel, more than a million children are at risk of severe malnutrition, which can quickly lead to death if left untreated. The hope of the government here and humanitarian agencies is to respond now and thus avoid the horrific pictures of mass starvation, worsening poverty and social dislocation that could come if nothing is done.]]></description>
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		<title>The KONY 2012 debate: Help UNICEF stop child exploitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Szarkowski, UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve likely seen the video, or the flurry of activity on Twitter, or pundits debating on television. Here are three things we want you to know about children in conflict.

One: This is not just about one person or one place.

The abuse of boys and girls during armed conflict is a global problem. Today, an estimated 250,000 children are associated with armed forces and groups in at least 20 countries around the world.

These children are robbed of their rights and their childhood. They are recruited into government armed forces and rebel groups to serve as combatants, cooks, porters, messengers, or in other roles. Girls are also recruited for sexual purposes or forced marriage. Many have been recruited by force, though some may have joined as a result of economic, social or security pressures. Displacement and poverty make children even more vulnerable to recruitment. The physical and psychological impact on children and their communities is devastating.

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		<title>A UNICEF emergency simulation: an eye opening experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UNICEF USA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week marked my two-year anniversary at the U.S. Fund. It's been an incredible learning experience as I immerse myself daily in UNICEF's mission and work alongside incredibly passionate and intelligent people. After two years, I certainly have a deep understanding of  UNICEF's work but I can’t even begin to comprehend what my colleagues in the field experience as they work to help children who are at their most vulnerable—especially during a catastrophic emergency. 
I got a very small glimpse of the complexity of UNICEF's response to an emergency and the immense challenge of managing information in a crisis when I recently had the  opportunity to participate in an emergency simulation exercise at our offices here in New York. Developed in partnership with UNICEF's Technology for Development (T4D) team and Design for UNICEF at NYU, and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the activity was first conducted at  the 2011 U.S. Fund for UNICEF Annual Meeting last  May and then again at the Campus Summit in October.  Last week the U.S. Fund staff was invited to experience the simulation for themselves. Essentially the emergency simulation put us in the heart of an emergency scenario and, more specifically, into a key role within one of UNICEF's emergency cluster groups—Water and Sanitation (WASH), Nutrition, Education, Health &#038; Immunization, Child Protection, Supply Division and Communications.]]></description>
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