As we walk through the maze of tents that make up the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bor, South Sudan, a group of children come bounding around the corner and come to a stop in front of us. Sarah, my guide in the camp, immediately shows the children one of the plastic signs she is carrying, illustrated with simple pictures of… Read more →←
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“My cats eyes were so wide, he was also very afraid,” Diana tells us matter of factly. The 10-year-old is explaining what happened during a recent day of intense shelling in Avdiivka, her hometown on the frontline of east Ukraine’s more than three-year-old conflict. This is where you hear first-hand the violence that continues… Read more →←
Tairbek Abdilashim uulu, 22, lives in a village in south Kyrgyzstan, a few hundred meters from the Tajikistan border. “It’s so close, but until a couple of years ago, we didn’t interact with our neighbors; we didn’t even say hello,” the 22-year-old recalls. Things have changed since then. Tairbek has built his own network of… Read more →←
“We expect more than words on paper and promises. We expect action.” These are the words 16-year-old Getrude Clements spoke as she took the stage and the United Nations General Assembly last year and called on world leaders to take urgent action on climate change. Exactly one year later, Getrude is joined by thousands of children… Read more →←
Since World Water Day, we have brought back the Bottle Flip Challenge! This time, the stakes are higher – we’re flipping to speak up about the millions of children at risk of a water crisis. Climate change is causing floods and droughts that are destroying, drying up and contaminating water sources. If the world does not act, the… Read more →←
Our small nonprofit, the Memory Project, has been organizing high school art students to create portraits for children in vulnerable situations for a dozen years. The Memory Project gathers photos of children and sends them to art students in US high schools who study the photos to create drawings and paintings which are then delivered,… Read more →←
Climate change is about much more than polar bears – it is about the lives of millions of children around the world who are at risk of climate-related disasters The meeting had begun badly. 8-year-old Aïta Abakar, smiling and looking a little intimidated, was seated beside us in the shade of a tree when she jumped abruptly at the… Read more →←
The life of Miquelina Anquebe, 56, has been anything but easy. Originally from Huambo, the second largest city in Angola, this mother of four found herself in a difficult economic situation following the early loss of her husband. “When this happened, I had to search for a job that would bring enough money home to support my four… Read more →←
Today is World Poetry Day – in the Field Office in Madhya Pradesh, India, our Chief in the office is Michael Juma. As well as working for UNICEF, he is also a poet and he wrote these lines for International #WomensDay Please read and join us in celebration of World Poetry Day. Great people of the world, Men and Women, time… Read more →←
Last week I was welcomed by Sidra’s family into their home in Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Her family fled the conflict in Syria in late 2013. Sidra lives with her parents, grandparents, two uncles and their families, one aunt, and six siblings. The three-room house is unfinished, with unpainted walls, no locks and only one… Read more →←
