United Nations Blog | Updates from the social media team

Here’s a selection of photos and videos you may have missed posted on UN social media accounts from around the UN system over the past few weeks and shared with our social media team. Thank you to all who contributed!

“Everyone has a part to play in fighting vaccine-preventable diseases,” said Clarissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization during a recent visit to Haiti during World Immunization Week. Thanks to @PAHO/WHO for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

UN peacekeepers painted children’s faces during a festival in Lebanon. Thanks to UN Peacekeeping for posting this picture on their Facebook page. You can read more about United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the spring celebrations on their website.

World Food Programme worked with mothers at a food distribution at a community hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic. Thanks to @WFP for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

Thanks to Hobert (@Hobert_), a former major in the Brazilian army, for sending us this photo taken during his service as a UN Peacekeeper in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

“Prevention is better than cure.” Thanks to Ugandan artists Bebe Cool and Juicy Mutyaba for partnering with @UNICEFUganda for raising awareness about the importance of vaccination in this music video.

What’s your priority? These Finnish soccer players are voting for sport! Thanks to UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account. You can vote, too! Take the MY World survey.

Celebrities are also getting into the act. Aamir Khan has also voted for the the changes he’d like to see. Thanks to @MYWorld2015 for posting this and more on their Twitter account.

Our UN Mine Action Service colleagues posted this photo on their Twitter account (@MineAction) of women attending the mine risk education session in Benghazi city. See more photos from Libya here.

Delivering food to families in Jonglei State, a remote part of South Sudan, means driving through this mess. Thanks to the World Food Programme for sharing this photo of their staff hard at work on their Twitter account (@WFP).

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The artwork of illustrator Sophie Blackall was shared this week on Facebook by UNCEF staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo in honour of the recent World Immunization Week.

Students from a UN Relief and Works Agency school in the West Bank recently received top prizes in an international robotics competition. Thanks to @UNRWA for sharing this and more on Twitter. Read more about their project online.

French actor Lambert Wilson traveled to Haiti with United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to find out about work being done there. Thanks to @MINUSTAHMedia for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account. If you can read French, you can read his blogs posts on Tumblr.

Aid workers and Syrian children at a refugee camp in southern Turkey try out some of the toys sent from children in Paris. Thanks to the UN Refugee Agency for posting this story and more on their website and sharing it on Twitter (@Refugees).

Thank you to the more than 10,000 people who raised over $72,000 to help girls in Asia go to school via a Groupon posting in support of World Food Programme school meal programme. Thank to @WFP for posting about this and more on their Twitter account.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator @ValerieAmos shared this photo of Twitter of her recent visit to Haiti to see how communities are making neighbourhoods and homes stronger and safer. Find out more in this story shared by our @UNDP colleagues.

Al Jazeera network presenter @FemiOke shared this photo from her time at the UN this week for the latest “Innovate Your Future” event. Find out more about the @UNECOSOC initiative here on Thunderclap.

Peacebuilding chief Judy Cheng-Hopkins (@ChengHopkins on Twitter) posted this photo from the meeting of the Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group in New York.

Our @MineAction colleagues shared this photo of a member of a demining team probes the soil for mines during a demonstration held by the UN Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Learn more about the work of UNMAS in DRC.

Meet a UN peacekeeper from the United States who has been working with orphans in Liberia. Thanks to @UNMILnews for sharing this photo and more on Twitter.

Many of you were posting about this “Likes don’t save lives” video shared by our @UNICEF colleagues. If you’d like to donate to support UNICEF’s work worldwide, you’ll find instructions on the UNICEF website.

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