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Children of Syria: Day 2 at Domiz camp in Iraq

Helen Pattinson, Wed, May 15 2013 4:22 PM

Today I have had one of my proudest days of working for UNICEF. 

It started this morning, as I watched 80 children playing games in a child-friendly space. UNICEF has provided the facilities for children to be able to relax and enjoy themselves, in a safe environment. There are over 1,000 children registered and 250 come here each day. It's much easier to make the transition to school if children come to a child-friendly space first.  It's a joyful place and the children are screaming with delight as we have a go in the game of skittles.

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Day of the Girl Child: child marriage must end

David Bull, Wed, Oct 10 2012 5:29 PM

Being forced into marriage as a child has an impact on every aspect of a girl's life, says David Bull, Executive Director of UNICEF UK.

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A Bangkok university rises to flood challenge

Andy Brown, Tue, Nov 8 2011 5:17 AM

Tired mother Gaew is one of the thousands of people made homeless by Thailand’s devastating floods. She waits with her chubby five-month-old baby, Peem, outside a makeshift health clinic at Bangkok’s Phranakhon Rajabhat Universit.

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Full house: former street children in Manila

Andy Brown, Tue, Oct 4 2011 10:38 AM

Last year I visited Manila, capital of the Philippines, with photographer Sharron Lovell to document a day in the life of three marginalised children. I was in Manila again recently and spent an afternoon with street educator Butch Nerja, revisiting the children.

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Educating Sally: a street child goes to school

Andy Brown, Tue, Sep 13 2011 6:12 AM


On the streets of Manila, homeless Sally is the first of her siblings to go to school. The Philippines will always have a special place in my heart. I lived and worked here for three months in 2009, following Typhoon Ketsana and the flooding of Manila.

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Recipe for success: Delhi children learn to cook

Andy Brown, Thu, Aug 11 2011 9:15 AM

In India, UNICEF works with local charity Butterflies to include sport and play in children’s development. Butterflies has a number of projects across the capital, Delhi, and they invited us visit two of these – a catering school for former street children and a night shelter and community bank near Old Delhi railway station.

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Down and out in Delhi: a home for street children

Andy Brown, Thu, Aug 11 2011 8:55 AM

After our morning at the culinary training centre, we went to Old Delhi to visit a night shelter for street children and a community bank. Old Delhi is a bit like the evil twin of New Delhi, where the UNICEF office is located. It's full of dilapidated buildings and narrow streets filled with a dense crowd of people and animals.

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Human traffick: a shelter for abused children

Andy Brown, Wed, Mar 9 2011 2:55 AM

How UNICEF is helping trafficked children get an education and reuniting them with their families. Poverty is relative. In the troubled border regions of Burma, there are people desperate enough to sell their own children into slavery...

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Friends in need: children living in Bangkok slums

Andy Brown, Wed, Feb 23 2011 4:54 AM

How UNICEF Thailand is helping children in the slums and streets of Bangkok get an education. Like any large city, Bangkok is multi-faceted and the view you get can be radically different depending on your perspective...

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Philippines blog: Nayon ng Kabataan

Tianna Rounds, Wed, Dec 29 2010 10:44 PM

Boyet has been at Nayon for eight years and there is little chance of reintegration with his extended family. For Boyet, football offers a future beyond the street. ”Through football Boyet was able to give himself a dream that one day he will become a college student, using football as a means for scholarship grants,“ his social worker explain.

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Philippines blog: Childhope street education

Tianna Rounds, Tue, Dec 7 2010 2:43 PM

My first impressions of Binondo, one of Manila’s slum areas and home to many children living on the streets, was quite daunting. We briefly visited the area to introduce ourselves to the street educators from Childhope and meet some of the children the organisation serves

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A Day in the Life: Mary's story

Andy Brown, Mon, Nov 15 2010 11:00 AM

Thirteen-year-old Mary lives and works with her family on the streets of Manila, capital of the Philippines. The family occupy a corner of the pavement outside Starbucks in Binondo Square, where they sell cigarettes and newspapers, cook and eat, and sleep outside at night.

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A Day in the Life: Crisanto's Story

Andy Brown, Mon, Nov 15 2010 10:00 AM

Fifteen-year-old Crisanto lives at Pangarap Shelter for Street Children in Manila, capital of the Philippines. He ran away from home when he was nine because his father was an alcoholic and would beat him when he got drunk. Crisanto lived on the streets for two years.

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A Day in the Life: Kristine's Story

Tianna Rounds, Mon, Nov 15 2010 9:00 AM

Fourteen-year-old Kristine lives at Nayon ng Kabataan, a shelter for vulnerable children in Manila, capital of the Philippines. When Kristine was five years old, she and her brothers were abandoned in a flat for over two weeks. They were referred by a friend and brought to the shelter.

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