UNICEF Venezuela

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UNICEF approves a new Cooperation Program with Venezuela

Actions for these four years will focus on five areas: health and nutrition, education, child and adolescent protection, social policies, and water, sanitation, and hygiene.

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Campaigns and Initiatives

Portada concurso de rap #HablemosDeFrente

Campaign

#HablemosDeFrente rap contest

The rap and freestyle contest #HablemosDeFrente sought to raise awareness about how harmful violence against girls, adolescents and women is.

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55 years in Venezuela for children and adolescents

The work of UNICEF in Venezuela and the rest of the world is based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Children sitting in a classroom wearing face masks.

Campaign

Back to School Campaign Juntos Regresemos A La Escuela

The joint effort of the educational community is essential for children and adolescents to return and stay in school.

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una niña y un niño acompañan al Representante de UNICEF y al Director de Fundamusical en el escenario del Centro de Acción Social por la Música en Caracas, en el marco del concierto de ratificación de El Sistema como Embajador de Buena Voluntad

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24 November 2022

UNICEF ratifies the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela as Goodwill Ambassador for children's rights

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News & Stories

Un niño de la escuela Misericordia F.C., patea un balón de fútbol hacia la portería durante su práctica en el campo de entrenamiento, en el barrio Canchunchú, Carúpano, estado Sucre, Venezuela, el viernes 3 de noviembre de 2023.

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The football academy that provides opportunities

Children and adolescents have found in Misericordia F.C. a place where they are guaranteed a safe space for their development, with psychosocial support.

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Yelitza Grimán, maestra de la escuela, carga a su sobrina durante una jornada integral apoyada por UNICEF en Las Tejerías en el estado Aragua.

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Emotional support provided by teachers is vital for children

Yelitza Griman was part of hundreds of teachers who received training from UNICEF and its partners to aid children and adolescents.

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María Torres, a consultant with the indigenous community of Warao, smiles for the camera on board a curiara (artisanal boat) in the Orinoco River in San Francisco de Guayo on the Delta Amacuro State on 21 March 2023.

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“Speaking in our own language, the community feels trust"

More than 40,000 inhabitants live in the entire lower Delta Amacuro. UNICEF provides protection, nutrition, health, water, hygiene, sanitation.

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A group of youth smiles for the camera during the presentation of the Ambassadors for Inclusion programme certificates, developed by UNICEF and implementing partner, the Foundation Vanessa Peretti (FUNVAPE), in Caracas, Venezuela, on 18 May 2023.

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“I am proud of being an inclusion ambassador"

Ambassadors for Inclusion is a programme developed to empower youth with disabilities to be multipliers of messages of protection.

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A girl and her mother during the practical activities of the Care for Child Development programme supported by UNICEF in the San Agustín community in Caracas, Venezuela, on 14 March 2023.

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“I feel a great connection with my daughter" Jhovanny

During the first years of life, the brain develops at an accelerated rate that will never be repeated.

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Luis González (15 years old) smiles for the camera standing at the door of his home in Las Tejerías, Aragua state, Venezuela, on 13 July 2023.

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“They told us about our rights, and we have learned"

After the emergency that occurred in Tejerías, UNICEF worked with the community, teachers and students to ensure the rapid return to school.

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