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UNICEF Partnership

Dining for Women and UNICEF Join Forces for Good

Dining for Women has partnered with UNICEF USA to provide urgent support to some of the most vulnerable and forgotten groups in our world today: refugee women and girls in Jordan, South Sudan, and Bangladesh. The significant refugee populations in these countries makes this the humanitarian crisis of our time, and it is well-documented that women and girls suffer the most during any humanitarian crisis.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in 190 countries and territories to put children first. UNICEF has helped save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization, by providing health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief, and more.

 

WEBINAR RECORDING: Update on the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh on June 25, 2020

 

Speakers:

  • Alicia Godsberg, Manager, Resource Mobilization Services at U.S. Fund for UNICEF
  • Andres Kragelund, Assistant Director, Humanitarian Response and Global Programs at UNICEF USA
  • Mansi Mehta, Assistant Director, Global Cause Partnerships at UNICEF USA

 

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Rohingya Refugee Project

Since August 2017, following renewed violence in Myanmar, an estimated 693,000 Rohingya have crossed the border into the Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh.  The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority group who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. They are one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.

Dining for Women has pledged $100,000 to UNICEF USA to improve the maternal and newborn health of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. The project will help strengthen referral systems to improve access to health centers and district hospitals for pregnant Rohingya women and babies. It will also help improve the quality of newborn care and safe delivery practices, and help prevent potential disease outbreaks.

Our goal is to raise the $100,000 by the end of 2019. To donate to this project, please click on the button below.

SEE ROHINGYA PROJECT FACT SHEET

WATCH VIDEO ON ROHINGYA REFUGEE CRISIS

SEE INTERIM REPORT ON THIS PROJECT’S IMPACT

 

 



Dancers perform during an event organised at a child-friendly space run by UNICEF partner Woman Vision, in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site, Bentiu, South Sudan, Friday 28 April 2017. Child-friendly spaces such as this one allow children to play and develop, and is an important aspect of the psycho-social wellbeing for those displaced by conflict. Six years after independence, the hopes and dreams of this fledgling nation have been shattered by armed conflict. Two million people are displaced within South Sudan’s borders, and another two million have fled the country, inflicting unthinkable hardship and suffering. Established in December 2013, the Bentiu Protection of Civilians (PoC) site hosts, as of late June 2017, some 114,000 internally displaced persons. More than 70% of children in South Sudan are not receiving an education, the highest proportion of out of school children in the world. Within the PoC site, some 95% of children are enrolled at the UNICEF and partner supported primary schools. UNICEF also supports Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) where psychosocial counsellors provide help to children who have witnessed horrific violence and are suffering from trauma. By allowing children to play games and engage in a routine, children are offered a sense of normality which is lacking in their day-to-day lives.

South Sudan Refugees Project

More than two million people have been displaced by violence in South Sudan, 87 percent of whom are women and children. Gender-based violence (GBV) is an urgent issue, with high levels of sexual violence prevalent throughout the country.

In 2019, Dining for Women provided $100,000 for critical prevention and response services for women and children in South Sudan who are high risk of gender-based violence. This includes:

  • GBV mitigation — e.g. ensuring sufficient lighting and security patrols at displacement camps and protective patrols to help women who go outside the camps to search for firewood.
  • Psychosocial support — to help girls overcome difficult experiences such as rape, sexual abuse, and other forms of GBV.
  • Awareness campaigns — engaging communities in a process to explore, debate, and ultimately alter norms that influence behaviors, practices, and beliefs that contribute to GBV.
  • Capacity building — strengthening national capacity to deliver quality GBV prevention

SEE SUDAN PROJECT FACT SHEET

READ THE STORY OF ONE GIRL

SEE INTERIM REPORT ON THIS PROJECT’S IMPACT

FINAL PROJECT REPORT

Our $100,000 investment supports GBV prevention and response services for about 2,640 women and children in South Sudan.

South Sudan Refugee Project Videos:

 

On 13 February 2016 in Jordan, a refugee from the Syrian Arab Republic, Qamar, is 14 years old. Raneem, 1, sits on her mother’s lap. Qamar married 2 years ago in Ramtha, Jordan where she now lives, having fled Syria after the conflict began. “We’re lucky,” says Qamar, “Its safer here than in Syria but I feel trapped in this house as there’s not enough room for all of us.” Qamar feels a huge sense of responsibility being a mother. “I was a child when I married and now I’m a child, with a child,” she says. Qamar can’t read or write and has not attended school since her family fled their home country.Syrain Refugee Project

In 2018, Dining for Women provided $100,000 to UNICEF USA for the Syrian Refugee Project. This project provides safe and lawful employment for Syrian refugee women in Jordan who have fewer opportunities for gainful employment while living in refugee camps. Our project also addresses the urgent need for maternal and newborn health care services in Jordan settlement camps and other locations at the Jordan-Syrian border. Syrian refugees in Jordan are a younger demographic and, on average, 2,000 babies are born a month in these refugee camps.

SEE SYRIAN REFUGEE PROJECT FACT SHEET

With the Syrian Refugee Project, we had a unique cost sharing with UNICEF Next Generation, who also contributed $100,000. NextGen is a group of young leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators in their 20s and 30s who commit their resources, resolve, and enthusiasm toward supporting UNICEF’s lifesaving work. Without the seed funding provided by Dining for Women and NextGen, this project would not have happened.

SEE INTERIM REPORT ON THIS PROJECT’S IMPACT

Syrian Refugee Project Videos

 

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