After the heavy rains the night before, she stood carrying a baby wrapped in a pink shawl in her arms. She stood silently, surrounded by the bustle of her neighbours cleaning up. Camera in hand, I waded over to her, a trudging walk in thigh-high sludgy water. “I’ve been standing holding my baby all night”, she told me, I had… Read more →←
Author: Christine Nesbitt
A girl stands on a chair to look out a window at the Imeldahof Home, an orphanage in the town of Noord in this photograph taken by Roger LeMoyne in 2011 in Aruba (Kingdom of the Netherlands). The Home was created by Dutch nuns and provides a safe haven for child victims of sexual abuse or domestic violence. New arrivals live in one… Read more →←
More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is concentrated. However, overall support for FGM/C is declining. In most of the practising countries, including Burkina Faso, the majority of girls and women think it should… Read more →←
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow greets internally displaced mothers and their children at the St. Michel displacement site near the southern town of Boda in the Central African Republic in this photograph by Tanya Bindra taken in 2014. This is Ms. Farrow’s fourth visit to the country to focus attention on the continuing… Read more →←
Displaced newborn twins and their older brother are seen sleeping in this photograph taken by Marta Ramoneda in Mardan Medical Complex, North West Frontier Province in Pakistan in 2009. The world has made noticeable progress in reducing under-5 child deaths; but progress for newborns has lagged behind. Most newborn deaths are from… Read more →←
As the crisis continues, the friendship between these two young boys is easily readable in this week’s photograph taken by Karin Schermbrucker in the Domiz refugee camp, in the northern Dohuk Governorate in Iraq in 2014. This photograph reminds audiences in other parts of the world that the children affected by this crisis are just… Read more →←
Every year, the Day of the African Child is celebrated annually on 16 June and commemorates the thousands of courageous children in Soweto, South Africa who marched in 1976 to protest apartheid and to demand equal education. The children’s legacy – hundreds of whom were wounded or killed – continues to build a better future for… Read more →←
In this photograph taken by Pawel Krzysiek in Burundi in 2012 at a UNICEF-supported project at a site outside Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, sport is used to educate vulnerable displaced children. Sport is a powerful tool to help improve the lives of children, families and communities. Sport creates safe environments where children… Read more →←
This week’s Photo of the Week taken by Josh Estey documents UNICEF Ambassador Selena Gomez visiting an early childhood education classroom at Satbariya Rapti Secondary School in Satbariya Village in Nepal in May 2014. The UNICEF-supported child-friendly school provides a safe, interactive, creative and fun learning environment for… Read more →←
A woman is seen cradling her infant in this photograph taken in 2014 by photographer Kate Holt at the Mwembeladu Maternity Home in Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania. She is using ‘kangaroo care’, where mothers with no access to incubators hold their preterm babies constantly against their skin to keep them warm. Millions of… Read more →←
