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Zambia to benefit from UNICEF initiative to empower adolescents with skills

Xinhua, April 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Zambia is among six countries that will benefit from a United Nations children's agency initiative aimed at empowering adolescents with knowledge and skills, a statement emailed to Xinhua on Wednesday said.

The United Nations Children International Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has partnered with a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation, ING, to reach 335,000 adolescents with knowledge and skills in six countries namely Indonesia, Kosovo, Montenegro, the Philippines and Zambia.

While acknowledging that the world has made remarkable progress to reach millions of children with various social services over the past decade, the UN agency said far too many of the 1.2 billion adolescents worldwide have been left behind.

"UNICEF is grateful to ING, especially to its employees and customers- for their commitment to improving children's lives and futures. We are excited that our renewed partnership with ING will focus on reaching adolescents and helping them develop the knowledge and skills they need to build brighter futures for themselves, their families, and the societies in which they live," Anthony Lake, UNICEF's executive director said in the statement.

The two parties will work together in the next three years to empower adolescents in the six countries with knowledge and skills.

During the decade-long partnership, the parties have provided access to better quality education for more than 1 million of the world's hardest-to-reach children through an initiative in which the Dutch firm's employees and customers raise funds for UNICEF, the statement added.

The partnership has trained 17,000 teachers and has been instrumental in the development of new ways to reach marginalized children. Endi