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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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Child nutrition in Sudan: UNICEF in action

UNICEF UK Fundraising Team, Mon, Apr 8 2013 11:51 AM

This week, we'll be following members of UNICEF Sudan around their nutrition programmes to highlight the importance of the Live Below the Line challenge. Read on to find out more from Susan Lillicrap, UNICEF Sudan's nutrition manager.

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What's life like for children in the slums of Jakarta?

Andy Brown, Fri, Feb 15 2013 6:14 AM

Neng is fourteen years old. She lives and works on Venus Alley, a lane in the notorious Jembatan Besi slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Unlike other children her age, she rarely gets to see the sun. The slum is one of the most densely populated in Indonesia, rising to four stories in places. As they ascend, the homes become increasingly makeshift, with walls and floors made from wood and scrap metal.

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A stitch in time: Burma's street children learn a trade

Andy Brown, Mon, Dec 17 2012 9:34 AM

Sixteen-year-old Thanda has spent much of her life living and working on the streets of Yangon, capital of Myanmar. She is a a Burmese of ethnic Indian descent: a small, serious teenager in a blue polo shirt and traditional longyi skirt.

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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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John's story: A chance at childhood

Joe English, Fri, Oct 19 2012 3:40 PM

 

I’ve now been interning with the UNICEF UK Media Team for just over a month, and have started to gain a real insight in to the work UNICEF does around the world. Much of my previous experience working in international development has been based around issues in conflict and post-conflict situations, and so UNICEF’s work with children affected by war was something I was looking forward to learning more about.

 

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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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Peer to peer: young people help children recover from disaster

Andy Brown, Tue, Feb 14 2012 5:30 AM

Seventeen year old Kim sits with a group of young children in a child-friendly space at an evacuation centre in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines, one of the towns worst hit by Tropical Storm Sendong last December. The centre is in a barangay (village) covered court. It’s crowded and humid, with the smell of sweat.

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Exile on main street: Chiang Mai street children

Andy Brown, Fri, Oct 21 2011 9:39 AM

Last week, we took a group of popular Thai bloggers to see projects for marginalised children in Thailand’s Chiang Mai district. After two days visiting orchard schools in Fang, we returned to Chiang Mai itself to visit a drop in centre for street children. The drop in centre was a small building in a side street, with an open-plan play area on the ground floor and an office upstairs.

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Fruits of labour: schools for migrant children

Andy Brown, Mon, Oct 17 2011 9:55 AM

I was in Thailand's Chiang Mai district last week, introducing a group of Thai bloggers to UNICEF-supported projects for marginalised children. After our visit to the orchard night school, we went to see a day school in the same area. We got up early and set off in our vans for an orange orchard outside Fang town.

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Evening class: visiting Thai orchard schools

Andy Brown, Wed, Oct 12 2011 10:04 AM

Thailand is rightly famous for the quality of its fruit, but this comes at a price. As we discovered during a trip to Chiang Mai province, many of Thailand’s fruit orchards are staffed by low-paid migrant workers, whose children rarely get to go to school. The trip was part of a project to reach a wider audience in Thailand by taking 12 well-known Thai bloggers to visit UNICEF-supported projects.

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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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