Question

limitations of unicef (not challenges)​

Answer 1

Can you guess how many children are living in poverty today? The answer is 1 billion and according to UNICEF, 22,000 children die every day due to poverty. With its main focus being on defending the rights and needs of children from all over the world, UNICEF donates as much as 80 percent of its funds to programs that concern public health. Reason being is so that they can create hope and new possibilities for people who lack education, food, and shelter. The United Nations Children’s Fund works in 190 different territories and countries to better the lives of families and their children. UNICEF was originally made for a different purpose than what is has become to today. Of course, UNICEF may have a lot of strengths but does have some weaknesses.

Explanation:

For 70 years the United Nations Children’s Fund has always believed that all children have a right to fulfill their potential in order to benefit the world. On December 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly created the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund but only to serve as a temporary agency. It was initially created to provide emergency healthcare and food to children in countries that had been ruined by World War 2 in Asia and Europe. In order to help the children in need in developing countries, the General Assembly gave the fund a continuing mandate in 1953. Also, dropping the words “emergency” and “international” from its name but by then, the acronym “UNICEF” had been retained because of how well it was known. In the 1950’s, diseases like Ebola and or the Zika-Virus were spreading uncontrollably in a lot of parts in the world making UNICEF become involved in missions against the diseases that could be ready for treatment or prevented. Furthermore, in 1960, UNICEF began fighting child malnutrition by working alongside the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and many other governments. This era was important for UNICEF because they got into the idea of thinking of the child as a whole which became the base for UNICEF’s programs which opened the possibility to focus on education as a necessity of life for children.