Furthering inclusive early learning in Papua New Guinea “I was just roaming around the community all day, basically doing nothing,” Rueben (36) takes me on his journey to become a trained teacher in the Early Childhood Learning Center in Hobu, Papua New Guinea. When he was about 3 years old, polio left him partially paralysed. Over… Read more →←
Topic: Big picture
February 12 is International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers. UNICEF estimates that 19,000 children are used by armed forces and armed groups in South Sudan. “Being honest, I personally wasn’t aware of just how many children this issue affects,” says Josh McKenna. He is one of the eight artists making animated Instagram… Read more →←
When you look at my passport, it looks like I’m just another German, born in an ordinary German city without anything to make me special. While it’s so clear on my passport, it feels like I am starring as Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the theatre that is my life: “To be German or not to be German”. Too many times it’s the first… Read more →←
99.9 per cent We are almost there! We can see the finish line – the goal we have been pursuing for so long – a world without polio. Over the last three decades, there has been a 99.9% decrease in wild poliovirus cases across the globe. How? The world came together. From parents to governments, community leaders to the United… Read more →←
Worldwide, it is reported that one in every two students between 13-15 are victims of bullying. My school is no different. My school in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is located close to squatter homes which is known as a bad area. It had a reputation for gangsterism, bullying and vandalism. People used to look down on students from my school… Read more →←
Razanamalala Christellà, a 16-year-old Malagasy girl, was among the top three winners of the 2018 One Minutes Jr. Awards presented in Amsterdam in November. Christellà received a Tommy Award for her efforts to speak up about issues confronting young girls and women today, echoing a larger global movement. Her video Wonder Woman was… Read more →←
International Day of Persons with Disabilities is commemorated every year on 3 December 2018 Maya Angelou said, “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength”. Until we can truly embrace, celebrate and not just tolerate what makes us different, we will always be… Read more →←
In October, UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations launched the global School Superhero Comic Contest unmasking the ultimate super villain — The Silence, a dark force stopping billions from speaking up and taking action against violence in schools. We called on you to create superheroes to defeat The Silence and #ENDviolence in and around… Read more →←
November 20 is World Children’s Day – a day to take action for children! It’s the day when the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, was adopted. It’s a day to celebrate, but also recognize that children continue to have their rights denied every day. Despite… Read more →←
When you get that feeling … when you can’t hold it any longer and you just have to go … where do you do it? I grew up in Australia and remember spending summers in the outback. When nature called, I would have to use an outhouse — a long drop toilet in a tiny shed in the backyard. I would go as quickly as possible, terrified that… Read more →←