Tsunami anniversary marks a year of emergencies for children      

[DEC. 15, 2005]  NEW YORK -- Issuing a one-year update on its recovery efforts in countries affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami, UNICEF says 2005 has been an unprecedented year of emergencies for children, with an extraordinary series of natural disasters, food crises and conflicts tearing at the fabric of life for tens of millions of people.

From the dozen countries struck by the tsunami to the conflict zone of Darfur, from nutrition emergencies in Niger and Malawi to crop failures in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and from the devastating Atlantic hurricane season to the epic Pakistan earthquake, UNICEF says it had not responded to such an array of humanitarian emergencies in a single year in recent memory.

In Building Back Better, a one-year update on its continuing effort to help rebuild children's lives in the tsunami zone, UNICEF says that while millions of people have been kept healthy and children are largely back in school, the real process of rebuilding is just beginning. A long road remains ahead for the victims of the tsunami.

The U.N. agency says it will continue its work in the tsunami zone and all the other humanitarian emergency locales as long as it has funding.

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