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Live Below the Line recipe of the day: Homemade pizza

Live Below the Line challenges you to live below the poverty line for one week, and  buy all the food and drink you need to survive for five days with just £5 (£1 per day). Sign up today. Today's recipe is 33p homemade pizza. Everyone loves pizza and this is a nice evening meal for your Live Below the Line challenge. If you can afford to buy some extra vegetables to go on the top then it tastes even nicer.

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Live Below the Line recipe of the day: Onion tart

 

Living Below the Line isn’t easy. My name is Clare Nester and I'm the Community Fundraising Manager at UNICEF UK. I'll be Living Below the Line next week with many of you. Whilst I’m scratching my head trying to come up with ideas of getting through the week on just £5 for our food and drink, those in extreme poverty are making even more difficult decisions. They have to choose between medical care and food, education or clean water for their children. So rather than worrying about what to cook, I’m going to feel proud that my donations will help the 1 billion children whose reality it is to survive on less than a £1 day.

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Climate change: a very real thing affecting our children, now.

Actor and UNICEF UK High Profile Supporter, Michael Sheen,  writes about climate change and its implication for the world's children.  

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Sudan: nutrition challenges in Red Sea State

This week we’re following members of our team in UNICEF Sudan to highlight the work they do to ensure children have the food they need to grow up healthy. We’re also encouraging people to sign up for Live Below the Line, a challenge designed to draw attention to global hunger. Yesterday we met El Sadiq, who explained a little about the situation for children in the country and the role of UNICEF. Read on to experience a day in the life of Salma Awad as she travels to the Red Sea State.

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Child nutrition in Sudan: UNICEF in action

This week, we'll be following members of UNICEF Sudan around their nutrition programmes to highlight the importance of the Live Below the Line challenge. Read on to find out more from Susan Lillicrap, UNICEF Sudan's nutrition manager.

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Living Below the Line at University of Nottingham

Find out what our guest blogger, Katie Cox from Nottingham, has to say about challenging herself to Live Below the Line.

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Why IF? Malnutrition in Madagascar

This year UNICEF UK is joining forces with over 100 organisations to put child hunger and malnutrition at the top of the global agenda. But whilst we’re all familiar with the images of starving children, there is another, hidden, side to malnutrition.

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What's life like for children in the slums of Jakarta?

Neng is fourteen years old. She lives and works on Venus Alley, a lane in the notorious Jembatan Besi slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Unlike other children her age, she rarely gets to see the sun. The slum is one of the most densely populated in Indonesia, rising to four stories in places. As they ascend, the homes become increasingly makeshift, with walls and floors made from wood and scrap metal.

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Tom Hiddleston's Guinea field diary: Back in London

So that’s it. 

I’m back in London. I am back in my home. Back amid the hustle and the bustle. Back amid the humdrum and the mayhem and the madness. Back to running water and the warmth of central heating. Back to a bed without a mosquito net. Back to food in the fridge and food in the cupboard and food around the corner in the supermarket.

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A stitch in time: Burma's street children learn a trade

Sixteen-year-old Thanda has spent much of her life living and working on the streets of Yangon, capital of Myanmar. She is a a Burmese of ethnic Indian descent: a small, serious teenager in a blue polo shirt and traditional longyi skirt.

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Coping with tragedy: the legacy of war in Laos

Peter Kim is a victim of the Vietnam War. But he’s not a Vietnamese or American veteran; he’s a 20-year-old Lao youth living in Vientiane. Four years ago he lost both his hands and eyesight to one of the millions of unexploded bombs that still litter the Laos countryside almost four decades after the war ended.

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Special delivery: Timorese women give birth safely

Isabelle de Santos, 29, lives in Suku (village) Hatólia in Ermera district, Timor-Leste. Her husband is a coffee farmer. She already has four children aged six to 12-years old, and is four months pregnant with her fifth. “I’m hoping it will be a boy so he can help his father in the fields,” she says, laughing.

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Water of life: villages in Timor-Leste get sanitation

Francisca Martinez lives in Suku (village) Estado, high in the mountains of Ermera district in Timor-Leste. She doesn’t know her age exactly but guesses around 30. She has two teenage children of her own and helps look after her sister’s young children. “All the families round here are coffee farmers,” she says. “We earn up to $500 a year selling sacks of beans to an American company. We also keep pigs and chickens and grow corn to eat.”

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Field diary: Kangaroo care in Malawi

Gillian Morgan reports from Malawi on an initiative that's helping the tiniest babies survive and grow.

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Day of the Girl Child: child marriage must end

Being forced into marriage as a child has an impact on every aspect of a girl's life, says David Bull, Executive Director of UNICEF UK.

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