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Topic: Children in emergencies

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Humanitarian action: Amplifying voices through digital platforms

Humanitarian action: Amplifying voices through digital platforms

Children in emergencies

By Fatou Wurie, Miriam Obibi

  It is August in Nigeria, the rainy season. The Borno camp has pools of water scattered around and children are kicking at the water. Their laughter ripples through the air. Community volunteers and mobilizers are seated under a tent next to the camp clinic. Their phones are out as they wait to voice their experiences using short… Read more →←
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Safa’s pink bed: one refugee girl’s journey to Canada

Safa’s pink bed: one refugee girl’s journey to Canada

Children in emergencies

By Abedelmajeed El-Noaimi

Story also available in: العربية
My story with Safa began in 2014 in Za’atari refugee camp. I had been working there since it opened in 2012. In those days, thousands of refugees arrived daily, often in desperate conditions as they fled on foot across the border. When I met Safa, she was six years old, learning in a UNICEF-supported school set up in a tent. She had… Read more →←
Two young girls in facemasks
Economic fallout from COVID-19 tightens its grip on children

Economic fallout from COVID-19 tightens its grip on children

Children in emergencies

By David Stewart, Sola Engilbertsdottir

“Poverty is when you don’t have any money. Because of a lack of money, children don’t have a chance to develop. They may not have a good profession or a good foundation for life.” This is how Marieta and Gor from Armenia recently described the impact of poverty. Whether it’s the instant loss of income that so many parents face… Read more →←
A group of people in yellow jackets spray down a container
Fighting COVID-19 deepens Iraq’s humanitarian crisis

Fighting COVID-19 deepens Iraq’s humanitarian crisis

Children in emergencies

By Laila Ali

The COVID-19 virus has challenged developed nations in ways that few could have predicted just a few weeks ago. In Iraq, my colleagues and I watch with trepidation as Europe and the US struggle to contain the virus. Hospitals are overwhelmed, there’s an acute shortage of testing and protective equipment, and the death toll continues to… Read more →←
A man hollds a small child in front of a UNICEF van
COVID-19 support for refugee and migrant children in Italy

COVID-19 support for refugee and migrant children in Italy

Children in emergencies

By Anna Riatti

I don’t think many of us living and working in Italy really understood what was happening when the Government declared a six-month state of emergency on 31 January. Coronavirus was still new. We started getting phone calls from friends and colleagues from all over the world to check on our health and families. As the number of affected… Read more →←
Two tiny figures of girls in school uniform walking along a damaged thoroughfare as seen from what appears to be the ruins of a building behind them
Responding to Iraq’s learning crisis

Responding to Iraq’s learning crisis

Children in emergencies

By Laila Ali

Three years after Mosul was retaken from the so-called Islamic State, parts of west Mosul still resemble a warzone with entire neighborhoods laid waste. Buildings remain collapsed into each other like a deck of cards. They create a dangerous mashup of bricks and steel that loom over children and families fighting to resume their lives as… Read more →←
A boy and a young man in front of a unicef tent
Rebuilding childhoods after trauma

Rebuilding childhoods after trauma

Children in emergencies

By Eliane Luthi

Story also available in: Français
Sekou becomes wistful when I ask him about his village. “Before, things were good. At night, we’d sit around the campfire and tell stories with our parents. And during the day, we’d dance and play the drums.” He comes from a tiny village in Mopti, the central region of Mali that has increasingly become the theater of violence and… Read more →←
A child sleeping alone in a tent
“We are barely breathing.”

“We are barely breathing.”

Children in emergencies

By Laila Ali

Story also available in: العربية Español Français
Over 7,000 new Syrian refugees – nearly half of them children – have fled the conflict in northeastern Syria and arrived into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many of them are women, children and the elderly. Almost all of them walked long distances through the night, hoping to reach safety. They arrive in physical and mental distress.… Read more →←
A young girl in a traditional head scarf stands amid tents.
Tragedy and hope across Mindanao

Tragedy and hope across Mindanao

Children in emergencies

By Toby Fricker

The drive alongside lake Lanao is idyllic. Surrounded on one side by the lush greenery of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and on the other by the vast ocean-like expanse that forms the largest lake on the island. But the horror of what took place alongside the lake’s northern shores hits you when you enter the devastated… Read more →←
An infant in the arms of her mother smiles as she gets her arm measured by a woman in a UNICEF t-shirt
Let’s make South Sudan nutrition centres redundant

Let’s make South Sudan nutrition centres redundant

Children in emergencies

By Jesca Wude Murye

Story also available in: العربية Français
If I know about a malnourished child, I will go to the family’s house every day to check on the child. If they don’t have food, I will buy it myself and give it to them. I just can’t look away. I’m South Sudanese and these are my people. Recently, I have been working in South Sudan documenting the treatment of three children… Read more →←
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