The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for extensive measures to protect schoolchildren against the cholera outbreak in the country. As of Sunday, 15 people had died and over 60 had been hospitalised in Lagos following reports of a severe outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by cholera. In a statement on Monday, Celine Lafoucriere, chief of the UNICEF Lagos field […]
More Than 330 Million Children In Extreme Poverty Globally- UNICEF
By Odunitan Omobomi The United Nations Children’s Fund has said 333 million children are still living in extreme poverty globally. The report from UNICEF and the World Bank indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic led to the abolition of extreme poverty for 30 million fewer children than was previously predicted. According to the statistics, around one in six children still live […]