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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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Children of Syria: Storify in Lebanon

UNICEF News, Mon, May 13 2013 12:11 PM

UNICEF UK fundraisers Mike Flynn, Shelley Piggott and Catherine Cottrell have just got back from Beirut in Lebanon, where thousands of people have fled to escape the violence in Syria. They've been visiting UNICEF-supported emergency schools and children's spaces, seeing for themselves the desperate need, and the impact of your donations.

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Syria field diary: Amid conflict, women struggle to support and protect their children

UNICEF News, Thu, Mar 7 2013 2:21 PM

This week, Iman Morooka met mothers and children in Homs city affected by the conflict. She visited UNICEF-supported activities and talked with humanitarian workers on the ground. 

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Coping with tragedy: the legacy of war in Laos

Andy Brown, Fri, Nov 30 2012 4:50 AM

Peter Kim is a victim of the Vietnam War. But he’s not a Vietnamese or American veteran; he’s a 20-year-old Lao youth living in Vientiane. Four years ago he lost both his hands and eyesight to one of the millions of unexploded bombs that still litter the Laos countryside almost four decades after the war ended.

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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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Female circumcision in Mali: a new women-led prevention campaign

Gemma Parkin, Wed, Mar 7 2012 5:19 PM

A growing, UNICEF-supported campaign in Mali is helping to protect a new generation of young girls by raising awareness of the dangers of female genital mutilation.

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Human rights and faith roundtable at Lambeth Palace

Alison Marshall, Tue, Jan 17 2012 10:42 AM

Are followers of a faith and supporters of human rights in danger of forming opposing camps? This was a central question at a roundtable convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Human Rights, Human Dignity and Faith. Alison Marshall, UNICEF UK’s Public Affairs Director, was there to speak about UNICEF’s long and positive history of collaborating with faith communities around the world to help children.

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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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Child marriage: A cause and consequence of poverty

jesswright, Fri, Mar 18 2011 12:15 PM

Farzana, 17, holds a crying toddler on her lap outside a UNICEF-supported child-friendly space in Multan, Pakistan. Farzana was married at the age of 15 to a distant relative, curtailing her education and childhood. “It hurts me a lot,” she says. “I wanted to study and make a life for myself.”

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Laos: small steps forward

Sue MacGregor, Thu, Mar 17 2011 11:48 AM
A squeeze on resources and unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam war, but health and education achievements give reasons to be cheerful. As you climb into the hill country north of Luang Prabang the roads get dustier and bumpier, and the traffic...

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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