In India, Empowering young girls through adolescent clubs to avoid early marriage


Rumi(13years old) from adolescent girls club

DIBRUGARH, India, 13 April 2011- After attending adolescent girls’ club in their local village, Rumi Hemrom (aged 13) and her friend- Seema (aged 14) has developed a good friendship which helped alter the Seema’s life. Seema’s parents were planning an early arranged marriage for her and hearing this, Rumi and other members of the club members of the club meet her parents constantly in the effort to stop the early marriage. Finally, they persuaded Seema’s parents to marry her until she is ready both physically and emotionally for marriage. Rumi said “Now it’s not our time to get married. We’ll not get to play. We’ll not get to go to school.”


UNICEF’s primarily concentrates on the growth and rights of many billion children around the globe aged 10 to 19. UNICEF’s is trying to bring out the adolescents’ fight against poverty, inequality and gender discrimination.

Water resources is being wasted in Iraq


According to UNICEF statement on the eve of World Water Day(March 21,2011-Baghdad),many people are unable to access safe drinking water but 50% of water resources are misused in Iraq. The statement goes like this…"Iraq faces difficulties in meeting the target of 91 percent of households using a safe drinking water supply by 2015. Iraq's average water production level per person, at 327 litres (86 gallons)/capita/day, is considered high by international standards but around 50 percent of the water produced is lost to seepage, leakage and wastage due to system inefficiencies," Adding to this UNICEF child fund said that "One in five or around six million Iraqis do not have access to safe water, of which the vast majority are in rural areas,".

Many Iraqi children get their water from nearby river or creek, huge amount of sewage waste is thrust into Tigris River which threatens the supply of clean water.
UNICEF said that it has helped many projects for the supply of good drinking water and also conducted training and awareness campaign in order to avoid water borne diseases.