Greta Thunberg launched a new campaign with UNICEF and Human Act Foundation to help some of the world's most vulnerable people
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UNICEF is working with different partners across the globe to offer educational resources, social protection and ongoing essential healthcare to the millions of children who are out of school because of the pandemic.The agency is working with kids in more than 190 countries, providing services such as water and sanitation supplies in Yemen and essential protective supplies and equipment in Ecuador.
Human Act said it chose Thunberg as this year’s recipient “for her fearless and determined efforts to mobilize millions of people around the world to fight climate change.” “I was feeling tired, had shivers, a sore throat and coughed,” she wrote on Instagram. “My dad experienced the same symptoms, but much more intense and with a fever.”
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