"Treatment alone is not sufficient if people are to return to their homes, which are surrounded by unmanaged waste," said UNICEF Representative in Zimbabwe Roeland Monasch.
In addition to ten specific waste-site projects, UNICEF plays a major role in stimulating discussion and partnerships and in training government and NGO and other partners.
So now the message is, 'Do not waste time,'" says UNICEF Health Specialist Dr. Mireille Tribie.
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"There are so many young inventors all across the globe – even in the remotest corners – who are committed to changing the world for children," says Bisman Deu, a 16-year old from Chandigarh, India whose invention of a building material made from rice waste is featured in UNICEF's report.
From the work of the Belize office to incentivize community clean-ups through the Freshwater Cup football competition to the work of the South Africa office to empower school children to start initiatives at their school around waste, water or community gardens, UNICEF and the young people it works with have shown the power of young people to build the sustainable Future We Want.
"For a nation attempting to rebuild itself, to grow, to become more stable, and to restart the economy, every one of the 1 million girls represents a wasted potential for Afghanistan," said UNICEF Representative Bernt Aasen at the launch of the campaign.
UNICEF's work in waste disposal dates back to 1991 when an environmental education project was introduced in Rio Branco in the Amazon area of Brazil.
UNICEF and partners have wasted no time.
Or acute malnutrition (wasting) as measured by the WHO and Unicef?
UNICEF also helped to construct an emergency waste treatment facility in Tacloban and deployed a suction tanker truck to empty emergency latrines and mobile toilets.
