UNICEF

• UNICEF is part of the United Nations

• Largest global organization working especially for children

• UNICEF stands for the United Nations Children's Fund. – (formerly United Nations International Children's

Emergency Fund)

http://www.unicef.org/why/index.html

Types of Disabilities

Examples:

• Motor Impairments: A disability affecting the ability to control muscle movement.

(cerebral palsy, arthritis, paralysis, limb loss)

• Visual Impairments: any kind of vision loss

• Hearing Impairments: full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds

• Speech Impairments: difficulties producing speech sounds or problems with voice quality

• Learning Disabilities: when there is a significant difference between one's ability and achievement

CAUSES OF DISABILITIES

• Poor nutrition• Lack of vaccines• Hazardous labor• Vitamin deficiencies (A)• Hazardous environment• Congenital

• Accidental

An excluded child is:

• A girl living alone in Cambodia with her brothers because her mother had to go elsewhere to find a job

• A boy in Jordan working to help his family and unable to play with his friends

• An orphan in Botswana who lost his mother to AIDS • A girl confined to a wheelchair and unable to attend school in

Uzbekistan • A young boy working as a domestic in Nepal • An orphan who lost her father to armed conflict in Sierra Leone • A girl living in poverty in the United Kingdom

What do they have in common?

HOW DOES UNICEF HELP?

Health and Nutrition

•Providing food and Vitamin A supplements

•Making sure children are vaccinated against killer diseases, such as measles

•Serving people with health kits

http://www.unicef.org.nz/school-room/refugees/what-does-unicef-do-to-help.html

• Providing mosquito nets to

prevent the spread of malaria

• Raising awareness of HIV/AIDS in refugee camps.

http://www.unicef.org.nz/school-room/refugees/what-does-unicef-do-to-help.html

Water and Environmental Sanitation

• Helping to make access to clean water Supplying anti-bacterial soap.

Education

• UNICEF sets up schools in camps to help children to fill their days and to

have a sense of normalcy. • Schools are set up within an environment called

a Child Friendly Space.

Protection

• Providing tents for shelter

• Registering separated children, tracing family and reuniting them

• Establishing children centers to provide support for children who have suffered trauma

• Training workers for children centers so they can offer the best support

• UNICEF works to prevent the trafficking of children, of which refugee children are very vulnerable.

NODIRA’S STORY

• Lives in Uzbekistan

• Nodira has a physical handicap

• Spina Bifida

• Confined to a wheel chair

www.unicef.org/sowc06/profiles/child7.php

Directions: Answer questions in a WORD document.

1. Where is Uzbekistan?2. How does Nodira’s surroundings affect her

everyday life?3. Does Nodira have any goals that are similar to your

own? What are they?4. What do you think Nadir's life would be like if she

lived in the United States?5. Do you think young people with disabilities in the

United States face challenges similar to those faced by Nodira?

6. What words of hope could you send a young girl like Nodira?

Name:

Date:

Period:

Document

Set-up

Photo Essay Excluded and Invisible

• http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/photo_essay/index.html

D.A.T.E.Disability Awareness

Through Education

Wednesday & MondaySeptember 26nd, & October 3rd