As a recently married woman, looking forward to starting a family, the topic of breastfeeding has become more and more prevalent in conversations with my husband and friends. When UNICEF approached me with the opportunity to collaborate on a breastfeeding campaign, it really highlighted the importance of breastfeeding and I was shocked… Read more →←
I was six years old when I walked into the maternity ward with my father. My little sister was about to be born and I remember feeling excited and curious, but also anxious. I remember the people in the ward tending to new or soon-to-be mothers. The woman tending to my mother seemed to be the most remarkable of all, because she was there… Read more →←
While working in UNICEF offices in Africa and the Middle East, I understood the importance of securing essential commodities to improve children’s well-being. During my deployment in Liberia during the Ebola public health emergency, I saw the impact of water and sanitation supplies such as hygiene kits and chlorine, as well as the… Read more →←
For 15 years Daeng Xayaseng has been travelling by motorbike and on foot through rugged, undulating countryside to deliver vaccines to children in some of the most remote villages in Laos. It’s hard work but she is determined to protect children. “We have a target of children to reach and we’ll achieve that no matter how long it… Read more →←
Dr. Rivah and her colleagues at Al-Quds Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) in West Mosul, Iraq have their hands full trying to keep two-year-old Mohammed still long enough to administer a polio vaccine. Eventually, they calm him enough to give him two vaccines in a row. By the time Mohammed realizes what has happened and the tears start… Read more →←
I felt a shiver run down my spine as I watched around 200 children lay down their weapons in a ceremony to mark their release from armed groups. The children, some as young as 10 years old, have been fighting with two different armed groups in South Sudan. Among those released were 112 boys and 95 girls. While they are no longer… Read more →←
UNICEF has commissioned 10 papers by leading researchers and practitioners to stimulate debate around educational challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa: a region where most children attend school, but many are not learning the basics. While the articles have academic roots, they are not research papers, nor do they represent… Read more →←
On 1 March 2018, I lost a dear friend and colleague, Dr. Onyedikachi Izuogu (Kachi), a doctor who was killed on duty with two other aid workers in a tragic incident in Rann, Borno State in north-east Nigeria. Dr. Kachi was a friend and a colleague whose values of dedication, service and sacrifice were shining lights in the dark alleys of… Read more →←
In the Bribri worldview of Costa Rica, when a young woman menstruates for the first time, she is considered ready to leave her home to start a new family and assume the role of motherhood. Although this indigenous cultural notion persists, it does not mean that all indigenous women follow this model. In fact, many women who can overcome… Read more →←
Sarah and Makene were wearing the same clothes. The same red gloves. The same little socks. They are bright, friendly seven-year old, girls. Makene is from Cote d’Ivoire and Sarah from Guinea. “We are new friends,” they said in unison. Yet what brought them together, here in the detention center of Tarik al-Matar in Tripoli, is a… Read more →←
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