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“Gladys Ngwepekeum Nkeh is a UN Police officer from Cameroon. She was deployed in MINUSCA 8 months ago as a gender officer. On a daily basis, Gladys works in collocation with National police at the police station of Bangui 1st district.
After monitoring their work, ensuring that basic human rights are provided to arrested persons and that they respect international professional standard, she patrols with them.
But Gladys is also gathering information about the situation within the communities of central Bangui, talking to local leaders, traditional chiefs, etc, constantly promoting gender rights. This is when she learned about the situation of Ashley Bongo Passi. A 13 year old girl who became pregnant after she was raped. Gladys took care of her and is now providing sensitization classes on sexual education to prevent gender based violence at Ashley’s school, Ecole des 136 villas.
Ashley is now saved and ready to resume school – her baby was named Gladys, a tribute to the UN police officer who supported her.”
—UN Photo
“The World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF are intensifying their efforts to reverse the dire malnutrition situation in South Sudan, where a brutal conflict has displaced millions of people, destroyed basic services, increased disease, and exacerbated hunger. UNICEF and WFP launched an enhanced joint nutrition response plan, which saw both agencies and their partners assist over two million people – children, pregnant women, and new mothers – for the treatment and prevention of acute malnutrition in the country. The two agencies began the joint nutrition approach to expand their lifesaving work.
The delegation made a field visit to an Outpatient Therapeutic Programme and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme site in the nearby village of Maduany. With the support of UNICEF and WFP, as well as other donors and partners, testing and treatment is carried out by Concern and Health Pooled Fund. Here, children have their middle upper arm circumference (MUAC) and weight measured, to assess presence (if any) and severity of malnutrition.”
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“As the World Food Programme (WFP) drops food in BentiuÕs Unity State on October 21st 2015, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Peacekeepers from the Mongolian Battalion (MONBATT) provide security.”
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“The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, arrived on 27 October in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for a four-day mission, amid a continuing deterioration of the countrys humanitarian situation. Mr. Beasley assessed the impact of conflict on food and nutrition security, and the efforts of WFP and other agencies to tackle persistent and emerging hunger.
He met with conflict-displaced families in the south-central Greater Kasai region, where more than three million people one-quarter of the population are severely food insecure in the wake of the eruption of violence in mid-2016.
In North Kivu province, Beasley witnessed a food distribution for the long-term displaced and visited a center providing nutritional support to women and children.
In the Photo: the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley during a food distribution for the long-term displaced and visit a centre providing nutritional support to women and children.”
—UN Photo: WFP/Marco Frattini / Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nyanzale, North Kivu, 29 October 2017
“The Central African Republic has the second-to-lowest level of human development in the world. Rebel groups control parts of the country, which continues to experience sporadic surges of violence against the backdrop of a disintegrating state.
WFP distributes food to the internally displaced, host communities and affected local populations, as well as providing food in exchange for building or repairing community assets to strengthen longer-term recovery.
In Bambari, WFP expects to provide 153,659 Mt of food to 12.195 beneficiaries with the support of its partner in the region Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), an international NGO that has been working in the Central African Republic for more than 40 years.”
In the photo: Eugenie Kongbo, 17 years old, WFP beneficiary in Bambari, Central African Republic: “I come from the village of Ippy that I had to flee because of the war. While still pregnant, I traveled 70 km to reach Bambari. My boys, my husband and I survive thanks to the help of WFP, which supplies us with food.”
—UN Photo: WFP/Bruno Djoyo / Central African Republic, Bambari, 26 October 2017
“Armed conflict and bad road conditions have had a negative impact on efforts to ensure residents in the vast area of Mundri have access to good medical facilities.
Both residents and displaced suffer the lack of good primary health care, as their hospitals lie broken and deserted due to armed conflict.
A lucky few have access to medical services, which are located a long way away.”
—UN Photo: Isaac Billy
“1 February 2018. Monrovia: (Right) Inspector Second Class Zhang Ying, a female member of the Chinese Formed Police Unit (FPU) deployed at UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), gives some medicines to the local guard of the former UN base in Tubmanburg, Liberia, destination of a long range patrol. This is the last patrol operated by the Chinese contingent before withdrawing in few weeks.
The Chinese FPU has 140 police officers, including 4 women, and after five years of service, it is due to withdraw in the coming weeks as part of the UNMIL’s mandate termination, scheduled on March 30, 2018.”
—UN Photo: Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran – UNMIL
“Three-year-old Mustafa, cradled by his father, receives a dose of oral polio vaccine from UNICEF Health and Nutrition Facilitator Muhannad Hemesh, in the Karama makeshift camp for internally displaced children and their families, about 20 kilometres east of Raqqa City. Mustafa and his two brothers are among more than 355,000 children under age 5 in war-torn Deir Ez-Zor and Raqqa governorates who were vaccinated during the joint UNICEF/WHO polio immunization campaign. An estimated 200,000 people, nearly half of whom are children, have fled ongoing fighting in Raqqa Governorate since April 2017.
In mid-August 2017 in the Syrian Arab Republic, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners completed the first round of a vaccination campaign in response to a recent polio outbreak in the country – where continuing violence has devastated the health infrastructure and severely disrupted routine immunization services, particularly in Deir Ez-Zor and Raqqa governorates in the north-east. This is the second polio outbreak in the Syrian Arab Republic since the conflict began in 2011. Before the crisis, the country had been polio-free, with an immunization rate over 80 per cent. National vaccination coverage is now at just over 40 per cent. More than 355,000 children under the age of 5 in hard-to-access area were vaccinated against polio in the two conflict-affected governorates, where violence has made access especially difficult. Health workers also vaccinated children displaced by the fighting and sheltering in tented camps with their families. UNICEF provided the vaccines and essential cold-chain equipment and also ran a community outreach campaign – during which 200 health educators and community volunteers went from tent to tent in displacement camps to meet with families and provide them with information, answer their questions, and clear up misconceptions about the safety and importance of the vaccines.”
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