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Melissa Griffin

Unicef adolescents data: what is the state of the world for teenagers? - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...cef-world-children-adolescents

1. Poverty and Hunger 2. Primary Education 4. Reduce Child Mortality Adolescents MDG Data Guardian

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  • Melissa Griffin on 24 Nov 11
     
    The latest Unicef state of the world's children report is out, with a special focus on adolescents. So, how do the world's teenagers compare?* Get the data* Search the MDG data. Read more about the report Children are unambiguously the focus of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But what happens when they grow up?
Clint Hamada

Millennium Development Goal 4 - Reduce Child Mortality - YouTube - 2 views

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4. Reduce Child Mortality

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  • Clint Hamada on 02 Dec 11
     
    Currently, about 26,000 children under five die each day, mostly frompreventable causes.
Melissa Griffin

Food Force: The First Humanitarian Video Game | WFP | United Nations World Food Program... - 0 views

www.wfp.org/...food-force

1. Poverty and Hunger 8. Partnership for Development MDG UNIS game free

shared by Melissa Griffin on 10 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Melissa Griffin on 10 Jan 12
     
    Since its release in 2005, WFP's video game to teach children about the logistical challenges of delivering food aid in a major humanitarian crisis has been downloaded over 6 million times, and has an estimated network of 10 million players worldwide!
Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Education - Overview - 3 views

www.childinfo.org/education.html

3. Gender Equality 2. Primary Education statistics

shared by Clint Hamada on 14 Dec 11 - Cached
  • achieving two of them – universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) – is vital to meeting all the others.
  • getting girls into school and ensuring that they stay there has what UNICEF calls a "multiplier effect."
  • Educating a girl dramatically reduces the chance that her child will die before age five
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  • Of the 68 million out-of-school primary-school-age children, 53 per cent are girls (UNESCO Data Centre 2010).  Of the lower secondary out-of-school adolescents, 54 per cent are girls
  • Clint Hamada on 14 Dec 11
     
    universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) - is vital to meeting all the others.
John Haug

Female Education Reduces Infant and Childhood Deaths - 3 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

4. Reduce Child Mortality 3. Gender Equality

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  • John Haug on 06 Dec 11
     
    The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five is greater education for women. In all countries worldwide, whether females increase schooling from 10 years to 11, say, or two years to three, infant mortality declines, according to a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
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