For more than 70 years, the U.S. affiliate of UNICEF has supported the global work of that U.N. agency, most of it focused on aiding children in developing countries. Today, UNICEF USA announced its first major program supporting children in the U.S.
, and you say, ’Something’s wrong,’” he added. “The answer is probably best found at the municipal level rather than the federal level.”
In the United States, UNICEF supported children affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, helping reunite children with their families and providing school-in-a-box kits. More recently, UNICEF and UNICEF USA worked with U.S.-based non-governmental agencies to assist migrant children on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico.
Nyenhuis said the new initiative will be its first ongoing program aimed at supporting American children across the country, though there have been temporary operations in specific areas of the U.S.Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner last year became the first U.S. mayor to join other mayors from around the world to sign a UNICEF-backed manifesto pledging to make their cities more child-friendly.
“When it comes to establishing best practices and strategies to create safer, more inclusive cities for our children, this is an ideal network,” he said.“These communities of color were already on the margins, and the new shocks and stresses have pushed them even further,” he said. “Children are the ones having to bear the brunt of all this.”
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