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Jalalabad, Feb 25 (EFE/EPA).- Dozens of Afghan children attend outdoor classes in Sarhood district, Nangarhar province with the support of UNICEF.The United Nations agency estimates that 3.7 million minors do not attend school in Afghanistan, 60 per cent of them girls.(Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI)SHOT LIST: OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN. SOUND BITES: SAHIDULLAH, TEACHER OF MUSLIM ABAD VILLAGE SECONDARY SCHOOL.TRANSLATIONS:"My Name is Sahidullah and I am a teacher for Muslim Abad Village Secondary School. This school is was created by UNICIF six years ago and we have class 1 up till 6. The school has 1800 students of which 1030 of them are female and the rest are male students."
Kabul (Afganistan), 19 Jan (EFE), (Camera: Hedayatulla Hamid).- Over 18 million Afghans, including 9.7 million children, are in desperate need of life-saving support, a global humanitarian agency said on Tuesday and called for $3 billion in aid to battle the challenge of saving almost half the population of the war-ravaged country from the brink of starvation.FOOTAGE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN KABUL
Quito, May 21 (EFE).- The UNICEF Representative in Ecuador, Joaquin Gonzalez-Aleman, warned on Thursday that food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic is turning into a "time bomb" as the virus is pushing 350,000 people in the country into poverty."It is a time bomb because food security is the most basic thing," said Gonzalez-Aleman in an interview with Efe in which he warned that Ecuadorian families are experiencing prices rise due to an increase in inflation. (Camera: JUAN FRANCISCO CHAVEZ).SHOT LIST: KIDS ON THE STREETS OF QUITO, ECUADOR.
"The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," Catherine Russell Executive director of UNICEF tell UN Security Council. "Based on these figures, children account for forty percent of the deaths in Gaza. This is unprecedented," she adds. SOUNDBITE
Girls are seen entering a school in the Afghan capital Wednesday. This comes after Taliban authorities announced the reopening of secondary schools, more than seven months after seizing power and imposing harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated. IMAGES