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A young boy sitting inside a circular playground swing

Gaza: Learning in the shadow of conflict

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“I feel good about finishing my exams, a feeling of success that a difficult time has passed,” Mohammad tells me in the schoolyard. The 18-year old from Gaza City just walked out of his final Tawjihi exam and with it, the end of his school years. Mohammad’s results will help determine his future but just reaching this point is a… Read more →←
Hand drawing image of the street view in a cityscape with damaged buildings and a minaret, with a hand-drawn message on the top right in Arabic that reads: "My country, be patient."

The Duma Drawings

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Bebo’s life was cut short by war, but her voice will continue to be heard In the dark month of January 2018, intensifying fighting in Syria reportedly killed 59 children. In early February, dozens of children have reportedly been killed and many more injured by extreme and intensifying violence in several parts of Syria – and the… Read more →←
A women and some children carry boxes as a UNICEF volunteer looks on.

A lifetime away from reality: Bittersweet Christmas

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The holiday season is a mixed bag of thoughts, emotions, and reflections especially when working abroad. 2017 has been a difficult year in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violent conflict defined much of the first half of the year. Political instability and fallout unbalanced the second half. As an international… Read more →←

Red Riding Hood helps protect children from explosive weapons in Ukraine

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  Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf and Grandma are on the school gymnasium stage. There are giggles, murmured whispers and wide-eyed expressions among the children – about 40 of them, aged 6 and 7. The audience seems entertained. Watching this, I remember my first years of school when the librarian would read me and my… Read more →←
Three people stand on a hill overlooking a refugee camp.

Covering the Rohingya crisis for UNICEF: Three views

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Half a million people. In one month. It’s the world’s fastest developing refugee emergency and children are at the heart of it – 60 per cent of the 519,000 Rohingya refugees now in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, are children. But beyond the astonishing numbers are heartbreaking individual children’s stories. Of loss, suffering,… Read more →←
A Rohingya woman sits on the ground in Bangladesh with her child in her arms

Racing to prevent cholera in Rohingya refugee camps

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What’s the situation? A humanitarian crisis of near biblical proportions. Since 25 August, 515,000 Rohingya have crossed from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. They tell stories of villages being burned, family members being executed, children killed, women raped. It’s truly a children’s emergency. A staggering 60% of new… Read more →←
Hurricane Maria: A young girl in short stands in front of her flooded home

“Mommy, don’t cry,” a 4-year-old girl surviving Hurricane Maria

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“Mommy, don’t cry,” says four-year-old Adriana Joseph, with tears welling in her eyes, as the overflowing river rushes dangerously under their feet and into their house. “The hurricane will calm down,” she adds trying to comfort her mum. But her mother, Abigail Walsh, broke down in tears. It was 8pm and Hurricane Maria had… Read more →←
A group of boys from Gambia sitting on a large rock by the sea in Sicily

My journey

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When I lost all my family at the age of 15 I decided to leave the Gambia. Since I didn’t have any money to buy a bus ticket I left by foot, walking for hours towards the border of Senegal. I had to cross five countries during my travels: Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Libya. The entire journey took me seven months. All in all,… Read more →←
A young refugee girl in a pink fur-lined jacket stands in front of a building.

Refugee children in crisis, are you aware of the challenges they face?

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My volunteer work over the past year has allowed me to work with refugee children from 21 countries worldwide as an academic and personal mentor at a shelter in London. Through this I have seen firsthand the challenges children and young people face when they are forced to flee their homes. 1. Mental Health: “I don’t feel so good.”… Read more →←
Five people gaze at a mudslide.

In Sierra Leone mudslides rip a community apart

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If Ebola was an emergency based around a tiny virus that often killed before it was discovered, the deep brown gash on a Freetown hillside is a sign of a disaster of a very different nature. Like Rio de Janiero on the other side of the Atlantic, Sierra Leone’s capital is built on spectacular coastal hills, and is overshadowed by a… Read more →←

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