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 →←
Author: UNICEF EAPRO
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 →←
This article is part of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN Young people can drive our economies and societies to be more vibrant and productive. At the same time, their potential can only be realized if they benefit from quality education from early childhood to adolescence and beyond. Providing creative and effective learning… Read more →←
Participation is vital for students’ thriving at school. But in Timor-Leste, traditional teaching theories have seen rote learning, corporal punishment and lecturing the norm, leaving children disengaged and excluded. Learn more how UNICEF Timor-Leste is supporting teachers guide a new generation of leaders with positive, inclusive and… Read more →←
On 26 February, Papua New Guinea was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake – the first of several major quakes and more than 100 tremors to shake the country within weeks. The earthquakes caused devastating landslides and widespread destruction across the four provinces of Hela, Southern Highlands, Western Province and Enga. Families… Read more →←
In traditionally patriarchal Timor-Leste, raising children has long been the exclusive domain of women, limiting their ability to pursue education and work, and excluding fathers from child-rearing. But a new UNICEF-supported parenting education programme is the first of its kind to focus on the unique role fathers play in their… Read more →←
In remote Timor-Leste many schools remain unconnected to safe water sources. For some girls, this presents a problem: how do you manage your period hygienically without skipping class? Find out how UNICEF is supporting some of Timor-Leste’s most vulnerable girls with safe, secure facilities for managing menstrual hygiene now. … Read more →←
Since violence escalated across Myanmar’s northern townships of Rakhine State in August last year and access to health and nutrition services dropped drastically, community volunteers have become a critical safeguard against the risk of malnutrition among children. With years of experience working for international non-government… Read more →←
