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If you want to save the world, be your own superhero!

If you want to save the world, be your own superhero!

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By Hind Ghorayeb

Story also available in: العربية
When I signed up to be part of UNICEF’s Emergency Response Team, I felt a wave of excitement and euphoria to dedicate myself to a mandate I genuinely believe in: supporting women and children in conflict areas and emergencies. Some of my close family and friends questioned such a career direction as it involved taking risks and putting… Read more →←
Women in traditional red attire and red face paint. One of them holds an infant girl also in face paint.
The Wayuú village that beat malnutrition

The Wayuú village that beat malnutrition

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By Alfonso Fernández Reca

Story also available in: Español
Sand, sun, wind … and plastic. Lots of plastic. The small peninsula of La Guajira looks more like a remote part of Sub-Saharan Africa than the Caribbean. This place, known as the indigenous capital of Colombia, is the land of the Wayuú. It is an inhospitable region where pastoralism and tradition mix with small-time retail and… Read more →←
A folded wheelchair sits against the doorway with a sign atop: Cluster Office' of a building with two windows and an elevated step on sand
Approach nicely: Culture and disability in rural Namibia

Approach nicely: Culture and disability in rural Namibia

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By Symen Brouwers, Aune Victor, Alvaro Fortin

Indiscernible from afar, the seemingly disconnected homesteads scattered across the vast open landscape of Northern Namibia belie an advanced intelligence network. In this hard landscape, people have taken on roles and responsibilities, centred on Indunas (village chiefs in the Zambezi Region), to help them cope. People share the news… Read more →←
Two ladies in blue flowing garb walk across desert sands.
Music against child marriage

Music against child marriage

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By Nicholas Ledner

Over the past ten years, two things have played a constant in my life— music, and the issue of child marriage. So, when I got the opportunity to help raise awareness about the practice in Niger it was a no brainer: I had to lend my support. Together with UNICEF Niger and Rooftop Productions, I wanted to create a music video that would… Read more →←
A group of school girls in uniform each holding up a blue bag featuring the UNICEF logo and branding.
South Sudan: Sanitary towels keep girls in school

South Sudan: Sanitary towels keep girls in school

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By Mercy Kolok

Story also available in: Français
Marshalina John, 13 I remember the night before I got my first period. I was sleeping next to my mother when I suddenly developed severe stomach pain. I didn’t know what it was. I thought I was sick. My mother put a cold cloth on my stomach to relieve the pain, but it was unbearable. I could hardly sleep. In the morning, I felt a… Read more →←
School children with school bags and carrying menstrual hygiene paraphernalia.
“I have started”: How periods change girls’ lives

“I have started”: How periods change girls’ lives

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By Mercy Kolok

The dreaded day had finally come. I woke up with an excruciating stomach pain and my back felt so hot that it could easily work as a stovetop. I wasn’t sure which was worse: the stomach pain or the back pain. I was not sure what the problem was until I got up from my bed. My next dilemma was how to tell my mother, as we had never… Read more →←
A boy walking among adults, while carries two large bags.
Stories from the border

Stories from the border

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By Marta Arias

Story also available in: Español
An anthill. That’s the closest image that comes to mind when you try to describe what happens on the Simón Bolívar bridge. The bridge separates (and unites) Venezuela and Colombia, in the Colombian province of Norte de Santander. An incessant flow of people walking — old and young, with empty hands or overloaded with… Read more →←
Children sitting atop white cardboxes boxes.
Field notes from Rukban

Field notes from Rukban

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By Fran Equiza

Story also available in: 中文 العربية
This past week, the UN in Syria mobilized one of its largest humanitarian aid convoys to bring much needed lifesaving supplies to 40,000 people stranded at Rukban camp, in the arid desert on the south-eastern border between Syria and Jordan. We went with 118 supply trucks and more than 300 humanitarian workers from UNICEF, the UN and the… Read more →←
A woman draped in a white shawl in a classroom with blue steel desks behind her.
What did your mother dream of as a girl?

What did your mother dream of as a girl?

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By Yera Kim

Story also available in: Español
When our team — UNICEF Chad’s Education colleagues, the Ministry of Education and partners — was leaving Sido Bemadji primary school in the Moyen Chari province, we learned that someone from the school’s Mothers Association had been waiting to talk to us. I hesitated for a second as we were already late. I looked at the person… Read more →←
A graphic illustration of a red faced figure on a fiery background with a finger in front of its mouth.
The search for a superhero to defeat violence in schools

The search for a superhero to defeat violence in schools

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By Alix Cabral

In October, UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations launched the first global School Superhero Comic Contest, calling on the world’s young people to design a superhero with powers to defeat the ultimate supervillain — The Silence. Newly unmasked and menacing, this supervillain uses its powers to prevent students from speaking out about… Read more →←
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