UNICEF Day 2022: Date, history, significance and all you need to know

The United Nations Children's Fund was established by the United Nations after World War- II with the aim to help those children whose lives were devastated after war. The official body provides humanitarian and relief aid to children globally. It came into being on this day, the 11th of December in 1946.

UNICEF is currently one of the biggest organisations in the world which works for children's welfare. It has presence in almost 192 countries and territories.

Currently UNICEF's work is not only limited to post war rehabilitation but they are operating in multiple fields like disease prevention and proper immunization, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV disease, enhancing childhood and giving maternal nutrition, improving sanitation and hygiene, promoting education.

UNICEF Day 2022: History and Significance

UNICEF is the successor of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, created on 11 December 1946, in New York, by the U.N. Relief Rehabilitation Administration to provide immediate relief to children and mothers affected by World War II.

UNICEF day aims to create awareness about children's rights, highlights their suffering though hunger or malnutrition, promote their education and work on various solutions to their problems. Various campaigns, sessions and donations drives are arranged on this day.

After the COVID-19 pandemic UNICEF turned their focus to work for the children's issues after the pandemic like health, mental health, children vaccination and children's education during lockdown.