Question

The United Nations Organisation was established to be an effective peacekeeping international organisation. 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 United Nations Children’s Fund was started after the Second World War to deliver relief to children and mothers after World War II. Its functions are:
i. UNICEF works for the protection of children in matters of their survival, health and well being. This is done in cooperation with private individuals, civic groups, governments and the private sector.
ii. The UNICEF supplies technical assistance, equipment and other aids. It provides paper for children’s textbooks, medical equipment and medicines for health clinics, pipes and pumps for clean water supply in villages, etc.
iii. It provides help to children and mothers caught in emergency situations caused by natural calamities, civil strife, epidemic, etc.