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10 Questions: Niloufar Pourzand

What IS YOUR NAME and your last assignment with UNICEF?
Niloufar Pourzand, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Uttar Pradesh, India

How old do you feel?
46 going on 66

Where do you live?
Toronto, Ontario, Canada displaced from Tehran, Iran

What book do you currently read?
Lyce Doucet's book about a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan

If you could travel without restrictions, where would you go?
Iran, Afghanistan

Your best experience with UNICEF?
Each of them in their own way

Your biggest challenge when working for UNICEF?
Difficult Representatives

What is your biggest fear, in relation to the future of children? What is your greatest hope, in relation to children?

Fear: Conflict, climate change, inequality, dictatorship
Hope: Social movements, revolutions, struggles for freedom

What is one piece of advice you would wish to give to the UNICEF Executive Director?
Please be courageous and principled when it comes to speaking truth to power.

Do you have any suggestions to improve XUNICEF - content, format, ideas, etc..?
Keep up the great work!

Niloufar can be contacted at: nilypourzand@gmail.com

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