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Jenner Pascua is a production officer for unicefusa.org.
It’s been almost two months since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Although it seems like there’s less urgency with the news coverage on the quake, there are long-term effects of the disaster. This past weekend, the New York Times took a lengthy look at how the earthquake left not only the city in ruins, but the education system as well.

In Haiti, the rainy season is setting in, making rivers in the rubble. Last week, flooding south of the capital killed dozens. With more than a million people homeless and exposed to the elements, the support of the international community is just as crucial today as it was on January 12th.

If you subscribe to our email updates you may already know that we started a photo petition for the children of Haiti.

This week's Monday photo comes from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
It's a photo from Al-Tanf refugee camp, which has closed - we hope - for good. Established in 2006, when hundreds of Palestinian refugees fleeing persecution in Iraq were prevented from crossing into Syria, the border camp was never meant to be a home. But that's what the strip of desert sandwiched between a busy highway and a wall became.

In a tent made with assorted sheets and other cloths, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, a young girl holds a baby in her lap. The tent is part of an improvised settlement, one of an estimated 300 in the city, for people displaced by the earthquake.

New year, new beginnings. Brand new babies, too -- all around the world.
Here is a Hteik Hteik Soe, holding her eight-day-old son in Taung Pet Village in the eastern Shan State of Myamar.

Last week we launched a campaign to raise $2 million by the end of the year to fight a "silent emergency" that's killing children: malnutrition.
This week's photo is from the village of Sullineabad, in India's Bihar State, where some 29 percent of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition.

On Friday, UNICEF released a Humanitarian Action Update for the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda), where some 500,000 children under the age of five are suffering from severe acute malnutrition due to ongoing drought, chronic food insecurity and conflict.
You can see the concern on this mother's face as she feeds her severely malnourished child therapeutic milk at a UNICEF-supported feeding unit in Ethiopia.

Our latest Annual Report (click here to download a PDF) just came out, so I thought I'd share this fantastic UNICEF photo that's featured on the cover: