Unicef now playing a vital role in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a densely populated country where more than 50% people are poor and illiterate. Life is very difficult here in Bangladesh. As a result most of the children of Bangladesh do not get proper care by their parents or by the government . Unicef is now working with these deprived children for decades. By the help of Unicef, now Bangladesh has overcome some major problem which are found among the children of Bangladesh like diseases, education, proper hygiene, health care etc.

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UNICEF
&
IT’S IMPORTANCE
IN
BANGLADESH
Prepared by
Shakil ahmed
Bds-1
st
batch
Class roll-32
Sir salimullah medical college,dental unit
Mitford,Dhaka, Bangladesh

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INTRODUCTION TO UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a group that is committed to improving the
lives of children all around the world. UNICEF is a charity group that is a part of the United
Nations.
UNICEF is part of The United Nations, which works for world peace. The main purpose of
UNICEF is to make sure that children around the entire world get the care and education they
need to grow up to be happy and healthy adults. UNICEF believes that children require special
kinds of care and affection. If children don't receive good care, it can harm them forever.
The UNICEF emblem is similar to the United Nations' emblem. The UN emblem has a globe
surrounded by olive branches that stand for world peace. The UNICEF emblem uses the same
globe and olive branches, but there is a picture of a grown-up holding a baby inside the globe as
well.

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THE HISTORY OF UNICEF
When World War II ended, the United Nations was started to help promote world peace. Many
UN leaders from around the world were concerned about the children in Europe. In 1946, the
delegates to the UN set up a temporary fund called The United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund (UNICEF). It was established to help children of all nations, not just the
nations who won World War II.
At first, the leaders of UNICEF thought it was most important to improve children's health and
nutrition. UNICEF worked with leaders, farmers, and charity groups to help dairy farms produce
more milk in Europe because many farms were destroyed in the war. In 1950, UNICEF was
going to close down because the conditions in Europe were much better. . The group had already
been successful in helping children in Europe and Japan, and had begun to extend into Latin
America and Asia. However, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt, argued
that the group was only meant to be temporary, to sustain children wracked by war, and at this
point UNICEF's work could be taken over by other groups such as the World Health
Organization. Roosevelt was eloquently countered by Ahmed Shah Bokhari, the delegate from
Pakistan. Though Roosevelt was an esteemed figure and represented a powerful nation, Bokhari
disagreed with her absolutely, and pleaded that the work of UNICEF was only beginning.
Pictures of European child victims of war looked very like normal children in poor countries like
Pakistan, Bokhari stated. UNICEF should not fold but continue its work with the needy children
in the developing world. Roosevelt was reportedly shocked by Bokhari's presentation and felt
very badly for having opposed his viewpoint. In the end, the United Nations General Assembly
voted unanimously to extend UNICEF's charter for another three years. In 1953, when the issue
of UNICEF's charter came up again, Roosevelt argued vociferously that the group be made
permanent.
UNICEF derived its funding principally from U.N. member governments. It began fundraising
on its own in 1951, with the sale of greeting card. However, some UN leaders protested because
they felt the work of UNICEF was not done because many children around the world were
dying. In 1953, the UN decided to make UNICEF a permanent part of the United Nations. They
also officially changed the name to United Nations Children's Fund.

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HOW DOES UNICEF WORK?
UNICEF is a charity group that is a part of the United Nations. It
is the only UN agency that is completely devoted to children and
women. The person in charge of UNICEF is called the executive
director. The executive director is appointed by the General
Assembly of the UN. It is the job of the executive director to
inform the world leaders and other important people about the
work that UNICEF is doing and ask them to help. Anthony Lake
is the current executive director for UNICEF. He began his
position on April 30,2013.
The executive director works at the UNICEF headquarters in
New York City. There are eight regional offices around the
world as well as 125 country offices. Most of UNICEF's
employees work in the country offices. They talk to government
leaders and train local people to help children. UNICEF provides
the money, training, and technology for each of its projects and
then local people from the area are in charge of running the
project.
There are National Committees in 36 [industrialized] countries worldwide, each established as an
independent local non-governmental organization. The National Committees raise funds from
the private sector.UNICEF is not funded exclusively by voluntary contributions, and the National
Committee collectively raise around one-third of UNICEF's annual income. This comes through
contributions from corporations, civil society organizations and more than 6 million individual
donors worldwide. They also rally many different partners – including the media, national and
local government officials, NGOs, specialists such as doctors and lawyers, corporations, schools,
young people and the general public – on issues related to children’s rights.
On 7 September 2006, an agreement between UNICEF and the Spanish Catalan association
football club FC Barcelona was reached whereby the club would donate 1.5 million euros per
year to the organization for five years. As part of the agreement, FC Barcelona will wear the
UNICEF logo on the front of their shirts, which will be the first time a football club sponsored an
organization rather than the other way around. It is also the first time in FC Barcelona's history
that they have had another organization's name across the front of their shirts.

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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS PROVIDED BY
UNICEF
UNICEF treats all children equally. It doesn't matter what religion, nationality, race, or gender a
child is. UNICEF talks to different countries' government leaders and asks them to support the
children in their country and to value their rights. UNICEF believes that their must be hope for a
country's children in order for there to be hope for that country in the future. UNICEF helped
design a special treaty called the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This lists the basic
human rights of children. In 1989, it was formally accepted by the General Assembly of the UN.
The Convention includes children's rights to:
 Health care
 Education
 A fair standard of living
 Leisure and play
 Protection from being exploited and abuse
 Express their opinions

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WHAT DOES UNICEF DO?
UNICEF works on projects that help children in over 150 countries around the world. Most of
these projects help to keep children alive and healthy. One main goal of UNICEF is to continue
to help children in countries that have dealt with wars and natural disasters. However, today
UNICEF is dealing more with poverty and illnesses in the
poorest countries of the world. Hunger can be helped by
providing better foods and vitamins. Illnesses can be prevented
by giving vaccinations, and having good clean drinking water
and toilet facilities.
UNICEF studies which countries in the world have the most
children dying at young ages. These countries are the places that
are in urgent need of good health care for their children. UNICEF
programs help countries drill new wells for clean drinking water.
Some UNCIEF programs teach people about good hygiene and
how to take care of the water supply in their communities
UNICEF programs also teach mothers in poor countries to read,
so they can take care of their children's health care needs by
reading posters in health clinics, on medicine bottles and in
books. UNICEF programs also help mothers improve their
education so they can get a job to help their families.
UNICEF also has some programs to help give vitamins and vaccinations to children in poor
countries to help them stay healthy. UNICEF also helps to break the cycle of poverty by helping
to provide a good education. UNICEF talks to some nations' leaders to create laws that would
make it illegal to have children work.
UNICEF also has programs to help children who are homeless. They have reading classes, health
check-ups, and sport activities for kids who are homeless.
UNICEF works to make sure children get the love and support they need from their families,
schools, and neighborhoods.

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SUPPORT FOR UNICEF
Money to support UNICEF projects comes from many different sources. Many nations around
the world voluntarily give money to UNICEF. Private companies, charity groups, and ordinary
citizens donate money too. Some famous people are asked to be Goodwill Ambassadors or
Special Representatives for UNICEF. They help to raise money by visiting some of the poor
countries around the world, and they learn about UNICEF programs that are being offered.
UNICEF also sells greeting cards to help fund its programs. This tradition started in 1947 when a
Czech little girl named Jitka Samkova painted a picture to say 'Thank you' to UNICEF for
helping her village after World War II
UNICEF printed her picture on greeting cards to raise money. Today, many artists let UNICEF
use their pictures to illustrate these greeting cards. UNICEF helps children get the best care from
birth, because it can make a huge difference in their health and well-being.
Image: Greeting cards of UNICEF

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UNICEF IN BANGLADESH
1949 UNICEF establishes a field office in Bangkok with responsibilities over East Pakistan
(now Bangladesh).
1951 UNICEF opens its first office in Dacca (now Dhaka), East Pakistan, comprising two
professional staff and one driver.
Between 1950 and 1970, UNICEF works closely with the Secretariat of Health on tuberculosis
vaccination, smallpox eradication, malaria prevention, cholera control, the development of
maternal and child health services and the training of health care providers. Other programmes
cover the provision of latrines, improvements to water supply and support for various education,
training and livelihood development initiatives
1970 A cyclone of devastating power hits costal areas on 12 November, killing half a million
people. 4.5 million lose their land, homes, fishing boats or livestock. UNICEF repairs and
rebuilds more than 11,500 wells and releases 1,000 tons of rice and other relief supplies.
1971 Ten million people flee to India during the War of Liberation against Pakistan. UNICEF
works with other UN agencies in Calcutta to provide shelter, food, sanitation supplies, safe water
and cooking utensils to the refugees. UNICEF supports supplementary food distribution for
650,000 children in the refugee camps.
On 1 August, George Harrison’s concert for Bangladesh directs global attention at the unfolding
humanitarian crisis and raises funds for UNICEF’s work with the refugees. The concert was the
first of its kind and is recognized as the inspiration behind more recent humanitarian fundraising
events. Album and film sales continue to raise awareness and money for the George Harrison
Fund for UNICEF for Bangladesh. Bangladesh wins its independence on 16 December 1971.
1972-73 UNICEF contributes US$30.2 million to the UN’s recovery operations in

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Bangladesh. Efforts focus on the distribution of vitamin-enriched, high-protein food supplements
for children and the establishment of safe water sources.
1974 Bangladesh joins the United Nations on 17 September.
1977 UNICEF collaborates for the first time with the new Government of Bangladesh, under
the Joint Government/UNICEF Advisory Group (JGUAG). The group provides continued
assessment of the situation of women and children and suggests development programmes to
address their rights.
1978 Bangladesh achieves a rate of one hand-pump per 250 inhabitants, thanks in part to the
300,000 tube-wells already sunk by UNICEF.
1979 With support from UNICEF, the Government of Bangladesh launches a national oral
rehydration campaign.Developed in Bangladesh and initially used to treat refugee children
suffering from cholera, oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a mixture of water, salt and glucose in
the correct proportions to treat diarrhea.
Children study at an open air school in Khulna division in 1983.
1984 UNICEF supports Grameen Bank to develop the Sixteen Decisions, under which poor
women borrowing from the pioneering microfinance organization promise to educate and care
for themselves, their children and their community.
1985 UNICEF works with the Government and local and international partners to launch the
expanded programme on immunization. In five years, the number of fully immunized children
under the age of one will jump from 2 per cent to 62 per cent.

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn gives polio
vaccine to a child, held by celebrated Bangladeshi Actresses Babita
& Shabana on her visit to Bangladesh in 1989. © UNICEF
Bangladesh/1989/Pavel Rahman
1990 Bangladesh ratifies the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 26 January.
1992 Meena is born. Meena is a fictional nine-year-old girl who champions the rights of
children in books, films, posters and radio plays across Bangladesh, and later throughout South
Asia.
Image: Meena,the fictional character.
1993 Naturally-occurring arsenic is detected in the groundwater, drastically reducing the
number of people who have access to safe water. UNICEF works with the Government to begin
testing tube-wells for contamination and initiates a communication plan to mark all tested wells
with red or green paint.
1995 Garment manufacturers and exporters sign a memorandum of understanding with
UNICEF and the International Labour Organization agreeing to eliminate child labour in the
garment industry in Bangladesh.

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1996 UNICEF and the Government launch the IDEAL project: an education initiative aiming
to improve the quality of education in primary schools. The project targets over half of all
primary schools in Bangladesh.
2006 To help prevent the deaths of 20,000 Bangladeshi children each year, UNICEF supports
the world’s largest ever measles campaign. Reaching 33.5 million children, the vaccination
drive is also Bangladesh’s largest ever public health initiative.
2007 Severe flooding and Cyclone Sidr affect over 14 million people. By December,
UNICEF provides over 22 million USD in emergency supplies and relief assistance. Lessons
learnt from similar floods in 1988 and 2004, and a cyclone in 1991 help mitigate the disaster and
save thousands of lives.
2011 With a staff of more than 220 in Bangladesh, UNICEF contributes about US$40-50
million annually to Bangladesh’s development sector. UNICEF works in collaboration with the
Government of Bangladesh and other key partners
UNICEF field offices
UNICEF has nine field offices operating in all six divisions of Bangladesh. Over 29 field-staff
work with partners in local communities to ensure the proper implementation and monitoring of
UNICEF’s programmes.
The headquarters of UNICEF Bangladesh are located in Dhaka.
Image: Field office location of UNICEF