Anar, like his friends, earns money washing
cars in Baku, Azerbaijan Read
story
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UNICEF/SWZK/00271/ Pirozzi
A child begging on the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, Georgia
Albania
UNICEF Albania/04-0416/G. Pirozzi
A Roma boy washes car windows in Tirana
UNICEF Albania/04-0044/G. Pirozzi
Iliaz attends a reintegration class for children at risk of trafficking in Tirana
UNICEF Albania/04-0234/G. Pirozzi
Edison, an orphan, helps his cousin read
UNICEF Albania/04-0540/G. Pirozzi
Children with disabilities. At Help the Life in Tirana
Armenia
UNICEF/SWZK00283/Krikorian
A worker at the school uses games to help a boy overcome the effects of violence. Read story
UNICEF/SWZK00446/Donata Lodi
The ruins of the 1988 earthquake still stand as the home for
displaced and poor families in an area that has the highest
poverty rates in Armenia, with 75% of the population living
below the poverty line.
UNICEF/SWZK00447/Donata Lodi
Sureu, aged 13, lives in the so-called container district in Gyumri,
capital of the Shirak district in north west Armenia.
UNICEF Armenia/O.Krikorian/2004
Armenia girl
UNICEF/SWZK00449/Donata Lodi
Anna, aged 8, with her mother in front of their house in the so-called
container district in Gyumri, capital of the Shirak district in
north west Armenia.
Azerbaijan
UNICEF/SWZK00053/ GIACOMO PIROZZI
10-year-old Ismail Agayev and his mother Gultekin, aged 32,
in their home at the Galagayin settlement for IDPs in Sabirabad.
UNICEF/SWZK00058/ GIACOMO
PIROZZI
Babek, aged 13, and Beyrek, aged 10, with their mother Tarlan
(38) at their temporary home in Galagayin settlement for IDPs
in Sabirabad.
UNICEF/SWZK00243/ GIACOMO PIROZZI
13-year old Zohra Mamedova, left, lives with about 150 other
children in a boarding school in Shek.
UNICEF/SWZK00244/ GIACOMO
PIROZZI
Children eat their lunch at the dormitory of the boarding school
for children without parental care in Sheki, 330 km north west
of the capital, Baku. About 150 children, some with disabilities,
live in this institution.
UNICEF/SWZK00269/
GIACOMO PIROZZI
Children at the boarding school for children without parental
care in Sheki.
UNICEF/SWZK00294/ GIACOMO
PIROZZI
Brothers five-year old Abid and nine-year old Sahil with a carer
at the Children Development Centre for Children with Disabilities
in Sumgayit.
Belarus
Croatia
UNICEF/SWZK00444/ JULIA NOVICHENOK
Belarus 2004: a boy plays with materials provided by UNICEF at a kindergarten
in the capital, Minsk.
Georgia
UNICEF/SWZK00464/ GIACOMO PIROZZIGeorgia 2004: a crafts
class at the UNICEF-supported shelter for street children in
the capital, Tblisi.
UNICEF/SWZK00512/ GIACOMO PIROZZI
Georgia 2004: A girl in
the capital, Tblisi.
Serbia and Montenegro
UNICEF/SWZK00254/ ZORAN JOVANOVIC
MACCAK
Serbia and Montenegro: A Roma boy
UNICEF/SWZK00255/ ZORAN JOVANOVIC MACCAK
Serbia and Montenegro: Two Roma girls.
UNICEF / SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO / Zoran Jovanovic
Maccak
"A child is poor if they don't have: parents, home, friends,
finished school, toys, television," children wrote.
UNICEF / SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO /
Zoran Jovanovic Maccak
There are many faces of poverty in Serbia
Moldova
Unicef Moldova/2001
Playing in a pool filled with balls gives disabled kids a unique massage. Read
story
UNICEF/Moldova/T.Nybo
An elderly grandmother in Chisinau, Moldova, looks after her grandchildren,
whose parents left the country and were never heard from again. She benefits
from UNICEF programmes, which help keep families together and children out
of institutions. Read
story
UNICEF/SWZK00560/ Pirozzi
Manager Nicolae Besliu joins a birthday party at the UNICEF-assisted Botanica
Centre for children with disabilities in Moldova. Read
story
Romania
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Foster care family in Romania
UNICEF/Romania009/Bivo
A child who lives and works on the streets (read
more)
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Siblings from a family at risk
UNICEF/Russian Federation
Boys who live in the streets of St.-Petersburg
UNICEF/Russian Federation
Volunteers from the "Street Children" NGO who participate in UNICEF Child Protection
programme.
Tajikistan
UNICEF/SWZK00260/ GIACOMO PIROZZITAJIKISTAN 2004:
82 year-old
Safarov Safar with his grand-daughter in Vose District, Khatlon
Province.
UNICEF/SWZK00289/ GIACOMO PIROZZITAJIKISTAN
2004:
A child at the Institution for Children with Mental
and Physcial Disabilities in the capital, Dushanbe.
Turkey
UNICEF/SWZK00201/ SEMA HOSTA
Turkey , August 2004: A group of children in Agri in the
east of the country.
UNICEF/SWZK00204/ SEMA HOSTA Turkey
, August 2004: A girl in Kars , in the east of the country.
Turkmenistan
Turkmen children from the Turkmenbashi City orphanage during
a three-day workshop on Child Rights, Protection and Participation,
organised by UNICEF in the western city of Turkmenbashi, June
21-23, 2005
Turkmen children from the Turkmenbashi
City orphanage and a UNICEF trainer during a three-day workshop
on Child Rights, Protection and Participation, organised by
UNICEF in the western city of Turkmenbashi, June 21-23, 2005.
Group discussion involving Turkmen children
from the Turkmenbashi City orphanage during the same three-day
workshop as above.
Turkmen children from the Turkmenbashi
City orphanage, their guardians and UNICEF trainers at the
end of a three-day workshop on Child Rights, Protection and
Participation, organised by UNICEF in the western city of Turkmenbashi,
June 21-23, 2005.
UNICEF Turkmenistan/2004/Pirozzi
Zarina, aged 8, is an avid reader, in her school for blind children in
Bukhara
UNICEF Turkmenistan/2004/Pirozzi
Dono, aged 10, in Bukhara
UNICEF Turkmenistan/2004/Pirozzi
Gulsara, aged 14, takes a moment off from playing football, during recreational
time at Khiva orphanage
UNICEF Turkmenistan/2004/Pirozzi
Sayyora, aged 10, enjoys playing at her Sunday school for disabled children
in Angren City
UNICEF Turkmenistan/2004/Pirozzi
Gulnara, 12 and Dilnara, 11 learn to sew at the Sunday school for disabled
children in Angren City
UNICEF Turkmenistan/2004/Pirozzi
Soniya, aged 6 plays in the streets of the Khiva's old city
Photo essay: All the Invisible
Children
All the Invisible Children - A film about the faceless, nameless childhood of
children from around the world. The list of directors of the movie includes
Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee and Katia Lund.
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