The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) received a new round of humanitarian exemptions to UN sanctions that will allow the group to expand its work in North Korea, a letter posted to a UN Security Council (UNSC) website said last week.

According to the letter, the new sanctions exemptions will allow UNICEF to ship items into the country that are “essential” for its health, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs.

These programs include “the delivery of safe water supply to communities and children in schools, nurseries and kindergartens,” as well as “the