Azerbaijan UNICEF is using the power of football to communicate with boys and girls across Azerbaijan. Through innovative soccer programs in the country, we are raising awareness and promoting positive behaviour change – helping to ensure this generation of youth, and the next, have greater chances to change their lives and their communities. Pakistan UNICEF responds to nearly 300 emergencies each and every year where children are always the most vulnerable. We know that sport – soccer – can help children recover from trauma, and provide them with a sense of hope and normalcy. It creates a safe environment enabling children to express their feelings and build up self-confidence and trust. Over the past decade, UNICEF’s “Football for Life” program has provided access to sport, education and health care for more than 40,000 children in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods of the capital.

Brazil Sport has the power to heal – as proven by Bangladesh this UNICEF sports program in Brazil where UNICEF promotes gender equality through children are able to be children again. The the “Adolescents’ Journey” soccer program. program offers soccer and cultural activities The program reaches over 600,000 to former child labourers. Bangladeshi youths and is working to break down cultural barriers for girls. Kenya UNICEF tackles HIV by creating awareness about the risks of HIV and AIDS among young people by using soccer as a platform. The tournament, “Kick AIDS Out of Garissa”, engages girls from marginalized communities who are at high risk of contracting the virus.

Colombia UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover attends the opening ceremony for Namibia the inaugural ‘El Golombiao’ – The Game UNICEF’s Galz & Goals program of Peace Tournament for children affected reaches Namibian girls by using soccer by armed conflict. 60,000 youth across the to promote social responsibility. Most country are participating in the initiative, importantly, the program teaches them which uses soccer to counter violence, that no goal is too far out of their reach. build community and prevent children’s recruitment into armed groups.

GLOBAL REACH Latin America and the Honduras Eastern and Tanzania, Guinea Kuwait Azerbaijan East Asia and Papua New Guinea Caribbean Jamaica Southern Africa United Republic of Guinea-Bissau Lebanon Belarus the Pacific Philippines Soccer is the universal language of millions Mexico Angola Uganda Liberia Libya Bosnia and Herzegovina Cambodia Samoa Argentina Botswana Zambia Mali Morocco Bulgaria China Solomon Islands of children around the world. Children play in Barbados Burundi Zimbabwe Mauritania Occupied Palestinian Croatia Cook Islands Thailand narrow, urban alleyways. They play in refugee Belize Comoros Niger Territory Georgia Fiji Timor-Leste Bolivia Paraguay Eritrea West and Central Africa Nigeria Oman Kazakhstan Indonesia Tokelau camps. They play in war zones, on street corners Brazil Peru Ethiopia Benin Sâo Tomé and Principe Qatar Kosovo, Kiribati Tonga – and wherever they play, UNICEF is there. Kenya Burkina Faso Senegal Saudi Arabia Republic of Korea, Democratic Tuvalu Chile Saint Lucia Lesotho Cameroon Sierra Leone Sudan Kyrgyzstan People’s Republic of Vanuatu Every day, 11,000 UNICEF workers equip Colombia Saint Vincent and the Madagascar Cape Verde Togo Syrian Arab Republic Macedonia, the former Lao People’s Democratic Viet Nam themselves to go as far as necessary to save Grenadines Malawi Central African Republic Tunisia Yugoslav Republic of Republic Cuba Mozambique Chad Middle East and United Arab Emirates Moldova Malaysia South Asia children’s lives. Namibia Congo North Africa Yemen Montenegro Marshall Islands Afghanistan One of the most important ways we equip Dominican Republic Rwanda Congo, Democratic Algeria Romania Micronesia, Federated Bangladesh Ecuador Uruguay Seychelles Republic of the Bahrain Central and Eastern Serbia States of Bhutan ourselves is with what matters most to children El Salvador Venezuela, Bolivarian Somalia Côte d’Ivoire Djibouti Europe and the Tajikistan Mongolia India – the power of play, the power of sport. Republic of South Africa Equatorial Guinea Egypt Commonwealth Turkey Myanmar Maldives Here are just a few examples of the impact we South Sudan, Gabon Iran, Islamic Republic of of Independent States Turkmenistan Nauru Nepal Republic of Gambia Iraq Albania Ukraine Niue Pakistan have had around the world – through sport: Haiti Swaziland Ghana Jordan Armenia Uzbekistan Palau Sri Lanka

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