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On 2 July, Gulnara Kozybaeva sits with her daughter Akmaral, 4, and son Nurbek, 2, outside their burnt-out home in Furkat District, in the southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Their house was destroyed during riots in the recent conflict. UNICEF is identifying locations for centres to help children regain stability and normalcy.

By Galina Solodunova

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 13 July 2010 – After weeks of violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, Osh is beginning to witness tiny signs of a return to normal life: The streets are filling up with people and cars. Some rush to the market to buy food, others go to visit their relatives and share their blankets and clothes with those who lost everything.

Six years after its brutal civil war drew to a close, Liberia is struggling to pick up the pieces.

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Girls from Marie Auxiliatrice Primary School smile and raise their hands to answer a question in a tent classroom set up on the grounds at another school, in the city of Jacmel, Haiti.

By Pi James

NEW YORK, USA, 12 July 2010 – Today marks the six-month anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, killing more than 220,000, displacing many more and severely affecting

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A Zambian football fan blows the vuvuzela in Mongu Town, Zambia. The UNICEF-supported 'World Cup in My Village' education project has given villagers a chance to see their sports heroes play.

NEW YORK, 9 July 2010 – The World Cup in My Village initiative brings large open-air screens and projectors to show the matches in Mongu, Zambia and the Rubavu district of Rwanda.

More than 3,000 young people and their families in rural Rwanda watched the opening game of the World Cup. Since then, an average of 2,000 people have returned every night to watch the matches.

UNICEF spoke with two Rwandan school children, Ronald, 10, and Sandra, 12, who took part in this initiative, about what education and the World Cup means to them.

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(Second from right) His Royal Highness Prince Harry of the United Kingdom meets with UNICEF OPSCEN staff and guests, in OPSCEN at UNICEF House. Beside him are (left-right) UNICEF Emergency Programmes Director Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Hilde Frafjord Johnson, and Chief Executive Nigel Woof from NGO partner Map Action.

NEW YORK, 26 June 2010 – During a visit to New York this week, Prince Harry visited UNICEF Emergency Operations Centre in New York today. The visit enabled the Prince to gain a better understanding of how geospatial mapping is used to coordinate relief and rescue after a disaster and gain a deeper understanding of the effect of emergencies on children globally.

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Haitian girls listen as a youth facilitator explains how their voices will be incorporated in the post-earthquake reconstruction process.

By Jill Van den Brule

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 21 June 2010 – Over the buzz of children chatting excitedly in Creole, nine-year-old Marie-Ange hunches over her poster paper, meticulously tracing the outline of a school. “This is the school of my dreams,” she says.