During the night of February 9, I was woken by the sound of a powerful downpour. Burundi was being hit by torrential rains. Little did I know at the time just what the consequences of this severe weather would be: a death toll of 77, a tragic 70% of which were children. More than 3,700 houses were destroyed that night, forcing hundreds… Read more →←
Topic: Impact
South Sudan, 2014: A boy in the Mingkaman camp for displaced people. Some 710,600 people – including an estimated 380,000 children – have been displaced internally since fighting broke out anew on 15 December 2013. UNICEF is reaching children with critical support in water, sanitation and hygiene, nutrition, health, education and… Read more →←
How did a community monitoring initiative, combined with the use of ICTs, lead to improved monitoring of the education sector in the Philippines? To what extent are children-led local councils holding municipal authorities accountable for allocations to priority social programs contributing to better outcomes for children in Brazil? Can… Read more →←
An innovative programme piloted in Tanzania’s Mbeya region uses mobile phone technology to make birth registration simple, affordable and widely accessible – an important step in getting every child off to the right start. MBEYA, United Republic of Tanzania, January 2014 – “It’s very simple, I’ll show you,” says Adela… Read more →←
Fifth-grade teacher Darius Naki Sogho has been a teacher for 24 years, and for most of those years, he taught with an iron fist—and a rattan rod. “I used to hit my students when I thought they were being bad, or when they weren’t paying attention,” he says. Over the last year, however, Mr. Naki Sogho has been learning to contain… Read more →←
BANGUI, January 2014: We could not see inside the locked school room at St Charles Luanga displacement site in Bangui. Mattresses, suitcases, cooking pots, and buckets were piled up against the windows. To peer inside, my colleague Bart stepped onto the corner of a colourful mat where a family had set up home in the sprawling camp.… Read more →←
It is heartbreaking to see the devastation wrought on the people of South Sudan since the sudden outbreak of fighting there two months ago. More than 850,000 South Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes; family members have been killed and injured, homes and livelihoods lost. More than 150,000 have left the country altogether.… Read more →←
February 3, 5.45am: Sunday morning at the UNICEF office in Central African Republic begins at 5.45am, when our team sees off three truckloads of supplies headed to Bouar in the north-west of the country. The UNICEF trucks joined a convoy of 67 lorries carrying humanitarian aid and other supplies, guarded by African Union forces. These… Read more →←