$1m for
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Unicef’S
$1m for Islands
New UNICEF assistance to prog rams and projects aimed at the welfare and development needs of children in the Pacific is planned for 1983-85. The execu tive board of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has approved a new commitment of SUS 1,162,000 from the organ isation’s general resources for support of programs in the Cook Islands, Federated States of Mic ronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Niue, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga,
Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Western Samoa during the period 1983- 1985.
Co-operation will focus on the areas of child health through primary health care, rural water supply and sanitation, health and nutrition education, and pre school education.
A regional home food produc tion project will commence late in 1983 for a period of about two years. The objective of the pro ject is to help improve the nutri tional status of Pacific Islanders by promoting the home garden ing of low cost, nutritious food.
UNICEF will co-operate with the Pacific Pre-School Council, based in Suva, to train pre-school teachers of the region through the use of correspondence courses and follow-up training attach ments. This UNICEF project is made possible through a special contribution of $A 100,000 from the Australian Development As sistance Bureau (ADAB).
UNICEF will continue to sup port Pacific immunisation ac tivities through the provision of vaccines, and by supporting the regional vaccine cold storage facility in Suva.
UNICEF assistance is being extended for the first time to the newly emerging countries of the U S Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI): Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.