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Major Agencies of United Nations

UNICEF works to protect children's survival, health, and well-being by providing funds for personnel training and technical supplies to make efforts preventing diseases and providing help to children and mothers in emergencies. It also helps governments plan and develop maternal and child health, nutrition, clean water, and sanitation services. WHO helps countries improve their health systems through infrastructure and institutions while giving important drugs for medical care and immunization. It promotes disease research, safe drinking water and waste disposal, and fights diseases like malaria through conferences, journals, and defining medicine standards. UNESCO promotes education, scientific research, and cultural preservation through removing illiteracy, exchanges, and improving communication. It provides funds and advice

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Major Agencies of United Nations
UNICEF- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. HQ: New York Functions: 1. Protection of children’s survival, heath and well being. 2. Provides funds for training personnel, including health and sanitation workers, teachers and nutritionists. 3. To make efforts to prevent diseases likes TB, Malaria, Eye/Skin diseases etc. 4. Provide help to children and mothers in emergencies like calamity, strikes and epidemics. 5. Provide technical supplies, aids equipments, medicines, pipes and pumps. 6. To help governments to plan, develop and give best services in fields like maternal and child health, nutrition, clean water and sanitation.
WHO- World Health Organisation HQ: Geneva, Switzerland. 7 APRIL 1948 Functions: 1. It helps countries to improve their health system by building infrastructure, manpower, institutions. 2. WHO gives important DRUGS needed for medical care. Immunization on major diseases like Measles, Tetanus, TP, Polio etc. 3. Promotes RESEARCH to cure and prevent diseases. Example: Cancer, heart diseases. 4. SAFE DRINKING WATER and WASTE DISPOSAL. 5. Organizes conferences, seminars and training for health care personnel from different countries. 6. Publish health Journals like Bulletin of the WHO. 7. Fighting and preventing diseases. E.g. Malaria 8. To prevent DIARRHOEAL Diseases- killers of infants and young children 9. Define standards for strength & purity of medicines.
UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation HQ: Paris. 4 November 1946 Functions: Education:  Removal of illiteracy,  Education of women & girls,  Financial help to disabled children  Promotion of education,  Organizing book fairs and exhibitions Scientific Activities:  Organizes scientific seminars, conferences of scientists in various countries.  Publish journals like: COURIER  Promotes research in filed of mathematics, physics, geology etc.  Study of social sciences and combating discrimination, improving status of women, helping youth to solve their problems  Improve quality of Videos, Press.  Also helps to improve communication in developing countries.
Functions: Preservation of Cultural Heritage:  Provides funds, equipments, advice to preserve monuments and other art work.  Protects world inheritance of books, art and rare manuscripts.  Encourages artistic creations in literature and fine arts.  Promotes Cultural missions (exchange programmes)  Through the medium of FILMS works on cultural development UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation HQ: Paris. 4 November 1946