Question

The United Nations was established to be an effective peace keeping international organization. In this context explain the following :
Name the agency that the UN set up to deliver relief to children and mothers after World War II. State any three of its functions.

Answer 1

The UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) was established in 1946 (after the second world war) to deliver relief to war-torn children and their mother.
Its functions are as follows:

• To render assistance in providing protective food like milk, meat, fish and fats to the children.
• It also takes care of pregnant mothers.
• To provide funds for the training of health and sanitation workers, nutritionists and creche workers.
• Universal child immunization against preventable diseases by 1990 was one of the leading goals of UNICEF.
• To extend support to programs such as the suppression of traffic in women and children.