Chloe Sydney is a Reports Officer in UNICEF South Sudan. She joined UNICEF one month ago, but has been working in South Sudan since February 2016. On 8 July 2016, fighting broke out in South Sudan’s capital, keeping the entire town in fear until a ceasefire was signed on Monday 11th. While hiding in her apartment, Chloe kept a diary… Read more →←
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“You have arms like Andy,” she says touching the hair on my forearms. A chill runs through me. I know who Andy is without knowing his name because he’s the only foreigner she has ever known. A ten-year-old shouldn’t know the things she does. Sweet, funny, kind and, like so many children her age, desperate for affection and praise… Read more →←
It would be false to say I didn’t always wish to join the UN system. Growing up in Siraha, in the southern plains of Nepal, I had always longed to travel through the rolling hills and mountains serving my country. The opportunity was presented just after I completed my bachelor’s degree. Following a series of written exams and… Read more →←
Every day, new stories surface about the Syrian Refugee crisis. Stories of how people, as normal as you and I, are robbed of their homes, their sense of identity, almost stripped of their humanity and forced to take perilous journeys across unforgiving terrain in search of new lives. The refugee crisis and the global response serve not… Read more →←
Most striking about Fati are her hand gestures. They cut through the air like blades, punctuating her sentences that come tumbling out in quick succession. She seems impatient and anxious to tell her story – a story that would be distressing for any adult, let alone a 15-year-old child. “One day, two men in the village followed… Read more →←
With negotiations under way for a future peace deal in Colombia, UNICEF has obtained a rare interview with a young woman just released from an armed group after spending 6 years in the jungle. In her words, this is her story. Things were bad at home, so bad that I lost the will to live. I thought if I joined an armed group, I would get… Read more →←
It’s Friday afternoon. After a long day of work I find myself walking in the streets of Paulista Avenue, eager to get back home. Paulista is the economic heart of São Paulo, Brazil. Here you can find all sorts of wealthy buildings, cars and people that you won’t find anywhere else in the city. It’s rush hour – the streets are… Read more →←
Editor’s note: UNICEF‘s Deputy Executive Director for Programmes, Ms. Geeta Rao Gupta, visited UNICEF-supported maternal and child health programmes in Ethiopia ahead of the Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa in Addis Ababa. At the conference, African leaders–including health and finance ministers –came together… Read more →←
I have a vivid memory of the first time I heard predictions of a “bumpy road” to zero Ebola cases. It was December 2014 and I was up-country in the town of Kenema (south-east Sierra Leone) close to the place where Ebola was first recorded in the country. We were listening to the radio in a dusty hotel courtyard as we prepared for a… Read more →←
In 2014, I contributed a blog post to Voices of Youth as part of my internship and in observance of the 2014 Girls Summit. This post will make various references to my initial entry, but it is not necessary to read one in order to understand the other. I am a 20 year old who has undergone FGM Type I/II. I currently live in Malaysia, a… Read more →←
