In this blog, Monica Bulger and Patrick Burton report on interviews carried out with marginalised teens in East Asia about what they perceive to be the benefits of social media. This is the first in a series of field dispatch reports conducted by Monica Bulger and Patrick Burton in East Asia for UNICEF’s East Asia and… Read more →←
Author: UNICEF EAPRO
UN Volunteer Yuqing Xiong from China’s Wuhan, Hubei Province, recounts her firsthand experience during the outbreak of COVID-19. She initially put her thoughts together to share with her fellow citizens from Wuhan, and now she is sharing her experience with the world. I am glad that at this critical period, I am in Wuhan, together with… Read more →←
Parents globally are concerned about teens staying up late and playing games with people around the world. But what do teens think? This blog reports on focus group interviews with teens in East Asia, who share why they enjoy gaming, attitudes toward ‘strangers,’ and privacy strategies. This is the second in a series of field… Read more →←
Fifty-nine per cent of children in Indonesia are not growing up well, they are either stunted (too short for their age), wasted (too thin for their height) or overweight (too heavy for their height). Among women, 44 per cent of women of reproductive age are overweight. Improving the quality and quantity of the foods mothers and young… Read more →←
Through life skills education, Cambodian adolescents are building confidence. Life skills are the skills needed to deal with the challenges of everyday life, whether at school, at work or in our personal lives. They include self-reflection, critical thinking, problem solving and interpersonal skills. Such skills help students develop… Read more →←
It is an ordinary day at the UNICEF office in Phnom Penh and Sorita is waiting for 11 trainees to arrive. Sorita is 21 years old and currently working as a blogging trainer for the Voices of Youth programme of UNICEF Cambodia. She is providing ongoing training to 11 young Cambodians on blogging, writing and research, among other skills.… Read more →←
Before World AIDS Day and right after the launch of China’s first ever National HIV Testing Month, youth leaders from across China are pouring their time and creative efforts to mobilizing their peers to learn facts, share their ideas and encourage each other to seek counseling and testing services. Here we have a few young leaders… Read more →←
I was still trying to recognize Ibu Teresia when, from across the street, a stocky woman with her hair neatly tied waved her hands toward me. We went to her house which was barely five minutes away from the corners of Jalan Alak in Kupang District. She asked me to keep my shoes on, as she was worried my socks would pick up the dust from… Read more →←
“Why I left finance and moved to tech” Having spent almost a decade at a global bank, working my way up the ladder to become Head of Economics for Emerging Asia, my family and friends had always assumed I would stay in finance forever. So when they found I was leaving the familiar realm of corporate finance to jump into the unknown… Read more →←
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia, – “Last year when we were senior students, we decided to use the money for our tuition fees to start our company”, says Dulguunbayar M, aka Dulgoon, aged 21. He and his close friend Munkhtulga, aka Tulgaa, another 21-year-old student from the state university, founded a design and software agency before… Read more →←
