We can maintain a peaceful society by helping people who are poor and hungry. Mutabazi, a 16-year-old student at Institute Filippo Smaldone, shares his ideas with the UNICEF team by using sign language. Like the other 168 students at his school, Mutabazi has a hearing disability. But that doesn’t stop him from dreaming big; after… Read more →←
Topic: Country stories
A community health volunteer diligently enters the details of every household into a mobile phone application. The most remote locations are reached on foot, so that every woman and child is counted and accounted for. These data provide actionable information about the resources needed to give children a fair start in life. Once… Read more →←
In our rapidly evolving world where technology is becoming a huge part of life, both at home and in the workplace, many schools have got a drive to modernise teaching and learning using new technology, which they believe has the ability to revolutionise the standard classroom. As an example, the introduction of iPads into schools has… Read more →←
“When I graduated from university, this laptop was my only possession,” Kamugisha said, displaying it proudly. Kamugisha Marius, a young Rwandan entrepreneur, received the laptop when he won the prestigious Infographics Competition. Held each year by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) and supported by UNICEF, the… Read more →←
JOSIAH’S STORY Josiah is 13 years old. He likes to study geography in school, and he recently participated in Reading Data with Children, a collaborative event between UNICEF and the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), organized as part of Africa Statistics Day. Nowadays, he is a strong advocate for children’s… Read more →←
Extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent in many regions of the world. From increasing precipitation and cyclones in high latitudes and tropical regions, to intensifying droughts in southern Africa, this trend is likely to continue throughout the 21st century. Weather shocks can have long-lasting effects on… Read more →←
In 1990, during my first visit to Lima, Peru, the streets were crammed with vendors, pedestrians, vehicles of every description and young men holding calculators. Alberto Fujimori, a college professor, had just been elected president, and was busy enacting wide-ranging neo-liberal reforms, called Fujishock. Overnight, the price of many… Read more →←
A couple of years ago the view of the perfectly terraced rice paddy fields of Viet Nam from my airplane window seemed both beautiful and unnerving. Like most Americans of my generation the violent conflict that engulfed this region in the 60s and 70s still evoked powerful feelings. I was on a UNICEF mission to Hanoi to help set up a… Read more →←
I have just returned from rural Tanzania, where I got to see one of the largest social protection programmes in Africa in action. The Productive Social Safety Net provides three types of support to poor and food insecure households: conditional cash transfers, ‘cash for work’ and livelihood enhancement. I traveled to the Mbarali… Read more →←
The importance of breastfeeding to child survival and development is unquestionable. Early and exclusive breastfeeding produces remarkable benefits: it supports healthy brain development and protects against life-threatening diseases such as acute respiratory infections and diarrhea. In the long-run, it leads to increased intelligence,… Read more →←
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