Field Coverage

UNICEF at Work in Asia

1 January 1950

In India and Pakistan, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund carries on important campaigns for health and child feeding. This picture shows Miss E.L. Pepper, a public health nurse with UNICEF/WHO malaria control team at Haldwani, in the Terai county of northern India, being helped to mount an elephant. This most ancient means of conveyance and the most modern (a jeep) make possible visits to an area of about 1500 square miles with population of 130,000 living in hundreds of villages. [No exact date]

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