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A group of people pose for a photo in an airport

Safa’s pink bed: one refugee girl’s journey to Canada

A group of people pose for a photo in an airport
Children in emergencies

By Abedelmajeed El-Noaimi

Story also available in: العربية

Safa’s pink bed: one refugee girl’s journey to Canada

My story with Safa began in 2014 in Za’atari refugee camp. I had been working there since it opened in 2012. In those days, thousands of refugees arrived daily, often in desperate conditions as they fled on foot across the border. When I met Safa, she was six years old, learning in a UNICEF-supported school set up in a tent. She had… Read more →←
A man stands in front of a green wall

How a child refugee from Yarmouk plays a vital role during COVID-19

A man stands in front of a green wall
Big picture

By Kotada Yonus

How a child refugee from Yarmouk plays a vital role during COVID-19

How do you go from being a child refugee to the founder and CEO of one of Sweden’s biggest news agencies by the age of 29? It might sound surreal until you meet Kotada Yonus. This is his story about the power of will and entrepreneurship.   Kotada Yonus runs Aktarr, a news and media agency in Malmö, Sweden. Aktarr focuses on… Read more →←
A man hollds a small child in front of a UNICEF van

COVID-19 support for refugee and migrant children in Italy

A man hollds a small child in front of a UNICEF van
Children in emergencies

By Anna Riatti

COVID-19 support for refugee and migrant children in Italy

I don’t think many of us living and working in Italy really understood what was happening when the Government declared a six-month state of emergency on 31 January. Coronavirus was still new. We started getting phone calls from friends and colleagues from all over the world to check on our health and families. As the number of affected… Read more →←
A boy walking among adults, while carries two large bags.

Stories from the border

A boy walking among adults, while carries two large bags.
Insider

By Marta Arias

Story also available in: Español

Stories from the border

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 →←
A man in foreground sits with a pencil and notebook on his lap and talks to a bare chested man in the background also sitting on a stoop, with a small boy beside him looking on.

Rohingya refugee crisis — how effective is UNICEF’s response?

A man in foreground sits with a pencil and notebook on his lap and talks to a bare chested man in the background also sitting on a stoop, with a small boy beside him looking on.
Impact

By Uyen Kim Huynh, Sanchi Ravishanker

Story also available in: Español

Rohingya refugee crisis — how effective is UNICEF’s response?

Beginning in August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya men, women and children fleeing violence, the destruction of their homes and persecution in Myanmar, arrived on the beaches and paddy fields of Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh. The scale and speed of the refugee influx was overwhelming and the magnitude reminiscent of the… Read more →←
Children sitting atop white cardboxes boxes.

Field notes from Rukban

Children sitting atop white cardboxes boxes.
Insider

By Fran Equiza

Story also available in: 中文 العربية

Field notes from Rukban

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 →←
Two girls in an empty classroom, one of them sitting behind a desk while the other stands beside against the wall.

From conflict to the classroom — a refugee’s story

Two girls in an empty classroom, one of them sitting behind a desk while the other stands beside against the wall.
Children in emergencies

By Benoite Gyubahiro

From conflict to the classroom — a refugee’s story

I came to Ethiopia in 2013, and lived in the Sherkole refugee camp, where I spent four years. Before Sherkole I was studying in a government school in Uganda. Now I am in Bambasi Camp (Ethiopia) where I have been for the last two years. When I left my home country DRC, I was 12 years old and studying in Grade 2. We lived in a rural area… Read more →←
Lady with a laptop and a man in UNICEF apparel look on as a UNICEF truck moves onto a barge, guided by some people on it.

Returnees from Angola: A new spark in the Kasai?

Lady with a laptop and a man in UNICEF apparel look on as a UNICEF truck moves onto a barge, guided by some people on it.
Children in emergencies

By Alphonse Tshikala

Returnees from Angola: A new spark in the Kasai?

Until a few years ago, no one had heard of the Kasai, then one of the most peaceful provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since August 2016 however, this safe haven has become synonymous with atrocities and unspeakable violence. Hundreds of thousands of people had to flee to save their lives; their children were used… 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?

A woman draped in a white shawl in a classroom with blue steel desks behind her.
Insider

By Yera Kim

Story also available in: Español

What did your mother dream of as a girl?

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 group of women together in a colorful room.

Women’s network gives uprooted women and girls a space for strength

A group of women together in a colorful room.
Children in emergencies

By Kimberly Chriscaden

Women’s network gives uprooted women and girls a space for strength

Three years ago, as many European borders closed to people fleeing violence in the Middle East, a community centre in the heart of Athens opened its doors, welcoming stranded refugees and migrants. Run by women who came to Greece as migrants themselves, the Melissa Network is a community centre empowering uprooted women and girls to… Read more →←
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