Billede 1
Circa 1950 in the north-western town of Castoria, a boy holds a folded UNICEF-supplied blanket, clutching
the skirt of a woman who has one hand on his shoulder and the other holding the hand of another child,
with another blanket under her arm.
In the north-western town of Castoria in Greece, UNICEF supplies daily milk rations, cod-liver oil and other
foods for children and lactating mothers, as well as blankets and soap to families, including some 40
children, displaced by World War II from their mountain villages further to the north. A short time ago,
UNICEF assisted a population of 800 displaced in this town, and continues to aid them in their home
villages.
Billede 2
1960, Mexico: With other small children nearby, three-year-old Concepcion Uribe wears leg braces to
support her polio-weakened limbs, as she swings in a hammock outside a rural UNICEF-assisted health
centre where she goes regularly for treatment.
Billede 4
Girls sit up in bed in an orphanage in the north-western city of Zagreb in the Croatia region. Their
bedspreads have been donated to UNRRA by churches in the United States of America. Pictures and a sign
with the word 'Yugoslavia' are on the wall behind them.
Circa 1945 in Yugoslavia, UNRRA provided assistance for the country's 88,000 war orphans and for 485,000
children who lost a parent in the war. UNRRA, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
(UNRRA), was created in 1943 to assist with relief operations and global recovery from the devastation of
World War II. Focusing primarily on Europe and China, it finally closed in 1949 as its mandate was
subsumed in the long-term development work of other United Nations agencies. UNRRA's work for children
was taken over by UNICEF, created on 11 December 1946.
Fotocredit: UNICEF