UNICEF released Humanitarian Action for Children Report (HAC) 2011, requesting $1.4 billion in its annual appeal to donors to assist children and women caught in throes of crises, said UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Hilde Johnson.
The world witnessed overpowering humanitarian crises in 2010: flooding in Pakistan submerged one-fifthof the country; earthquake in Haiti claimed over 200,000 lives, displaced millions; parched earth and lack of food across the Sahel continues to threaten hundreds of thousands of children with severe acute malnutrition.
The unprecedented scale of disasters in Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 triggered an extraordinary global response from all humanitarian organizations and partners. Yet it also underscored need to strengthen preparedness and risk reduction in communities that are hit repeatedly by crisis. Granting vulnerable communities the skills to face and withstand risk is increasingly important component of humanitarian action, and an area to which UNICEF is deeply committed.
"After a year of devastating natural disaster and human tragedy, it has never been more timely to strengthen resilience of people and communities who are placed in harm's way again and again," said Johnson.
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The world witnessed overpowering humanitarian crises in 2010: flooding in Pakistan submerged one-fifthof the country; earthquake in Haiti claimed over 200,000 lives, displaced millions; parched earth and lack of food across the Sahel continues to threaten hundreds of thousands of children with severe acute malnutrition.
The unprecedented scale of disasters in Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 triggered an extraordinary global response from all humanitarian organizations and partners. Yet it also underscored need to strengthen preparedness and risk reduction in communities that are hit repeatedly by crisis. Granting vulnerable communities the skills to face and withstand risk is increasingly important component of humanitarian action, and an area to which UNICEF is deeply committed.
"After a year of devastating natural disaster and human tragedy, it has never been more timely to strengthen resilience of people and communities who are placed in harm's way again and again," said Johnson.
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