UNICEF has complained about lack of funding for humanitarian programs that save lives around the world.
UNICEF said it won’t be able to limit the danger of landmines posed to almost 50.000 children if it didn’t receive urgent funding worth 540.000 dollars.
Millions of vulnerable children around the world are suffering the grievous consequences of increasingly complex humanitarian crises,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
She added that without additional resources, these children will not go to school, be vaccinated, receive adequate nutrition, or be protected from violence and abuse.
“While we continue to appeal for an end to conflicts and better readiness to emergencies, we need additional donor support to help us meet children’s most basic needs.” She further added.
Emergencies in Pakistan, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Venezuela currently have the largest funding gaps, but the agency’s ability to respond in Syria and neighbouring countries – as well as in Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Bangladesh – also remains significantly underfunded.
With 2019 almost over, UNICEF reported that it has still only received just over half of the $4 billion it needs this year, to provide life-saving health, education, nutrition and protection programmes for 41 million children in nearly 60 countries worldwide.
