UNICEF

[yoo-nuh-sef]

noun

1. United Nations Children's Fund: an agency, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, concerned with improving the health and nutrition of children and mothers throughout the world; Nobel Peace Prize 1965.

UNICEF

/ ˈjuːnɪˌsɛf /

acronym

1. United Nations Children's Fund (formerly, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund): an agency of the United Nations that administers programmes to aid education and child and maternal health in developing countries

Word History and Origins

Origin of UNICEF¹

U(nited) N(ations) I(nternational) C(hildren's) E(mergency) F(und) (an earlier official name)

Example Sentences

More than 4.5 million children in the country of 40 million have been denied schooling, according to UNICEF.

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With Gaza's education system shattered by two years of gruelling war, UNICEF's regional director says he fears for a "lost generation" of children wandering ruined streets with nothing to do.

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Israel has destroyed around two-thirds of Gaza's water systems, according to UNICEF, forcing children to drink unsafe water and increasing their exposure to sewage and waterborne diseases.

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“People are educated — they know their children can get sick very easily,” said Jonathan Crick, a Jerusalem-based spokesman for UNICEF, the world body’s agency for children.

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"Since these vaccines were supplied through UNICEF/WHO, I would expect they are standard, highly effective vaccines that have been used to eradicate polio around much of the world, particularly in low-resource populations," Sommer said.

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