Tagged: covid-19

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Global education calls for effective leadership and coordination now more than ever

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There are at least five immediate and devastating consequences of COVID-19 on education that require collective action: Firstly, we have seen progress on out-of-school children reverse, while the pre-existing global learning crisis is at risk of becoming a catastrophe. Meanwhile, vulnerable children, especially girls are quickly losing… Read more →←
Children in a Buddhist school

Giving children a voice against violence – the role of faith actors

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When Deaconess Juliet Eneh spoke at the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities’ (JLI) recent series on child participation, her message was clear: when children have a voice, violence against children goes down.  It was this reasoning that led her to help establish Christ Care. This mentoring program educates… Read more →←
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Where are the girls and why it matters as schools reopen?

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“Where are the girls?” It’s a question that is asked too much when stepping into classrooms around the world. And the further up the school years we go, the more the question bounces around an echo chamber. Massive strides have been made in girls’ education. Between 1995 and 2018, 180 million more girls enrolled in primary and… Read more →←
On a street in Nigeria, two health workers provide an oral polio vaccine to a child.

Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

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We are living through an unprecedented moment in time. With COVID-19 vaccine procurement and delivery underway, we are in the midst of a global health effort unlike what many of us have seen. But in some ways, we have been here before – with polio. In the early part of the twentieth century, few diseases affected children and… Read more →←
A man in PPE stands among children in a slum in Mumbai India.

Together, we shall overcome

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Day after day our screens are filled with harrowing images of hospitals overrun, lines of people waiting desperately for a hospital bed or oxygen for a loved one. As the number of cases keeps climbing, the threat inches ever closer to home, family members, colleagues, friends, and neighbours. I feel so helpless right now. Helpless at my… Read more →←
A covid-19 patient hooked up to an oxygen tank

12 months on, the eerily familiar sounds of the pandemic

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March 2020. India had recently completed a massive vaccination campaign of more than 300 million children against measles and rubella – two potentially life-threatening diseases. I was posted to New York for a health communications assignment which involved sharing my experiences from the public health communication drive that had… Read more →←
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Reimagining education, together

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The pandemic has created the biggest upheaval across our societies in living memory. Millions of children and young people have had their education disrupted and if learning losses are not addressed now, it will limit the choice and opportunity for this generation of children and young people – the opportunity to learn, to pursue a… Read more →←
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The vaccine scramble that risks leaving everyone behind

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A Joint Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and ICC Secretary General John Denton. The first weeks of 2021 have resembled a split-screen moment for many of us: the roll out of proven vaccines sparking hope that the worst of the pandemic could soon be over, while fresh waves of infection and viral mutations raise… Read more →←
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Transporting 1 billion syringes to the world

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The word unprecedented will always be associated with 2020. For months on end, it was repeated on TV, in newspapers and by friends and family to describe the pandemic and its effects on people in every corner of the world. As the head of the Medical Devices Unit in UNICEF Supply Division, 2021 is shaping up to be another unprecedented… Read more →←
A group of young boys standing in a newly prepared football court

Despite the odds, green shoots of hope are growing in South Africa

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One year ago, when the scale of the challenges ahead of a pre-COVID-19 South Africa was not clear, a group of inspiring people came together in Salt River, Cape Town, to meet with the local community. The annual International Public Art Festival was coming up in February 2020, and NGO partners Progress and Bazart, as well as Tuba Films… Read more →←

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