Actor Keeley Hawes visited Djibouti, East Africa earlier this year to see the work UNICEF is doing in the country. She recorded this diary during her trip.
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Maulid Warfa from UNICEF Somalia reflects on the huge amount achieved for the country's children since last July. But the battle is not over yet, he warns.
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It's Mother's Day this week. I know I'm biased but I think that my mum is the best. When I asked her to explain why she thought other mums (and their offspring) should support UNICEF, here's what what she wrote.
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In January 2012, Gemma Parkin from the UNICEF UK Media Team travelled with The Sun newspaper to East Africa to meet women and children in some of Djibouti's urban slums and refugee camps. What's the impact of the food crisis on their family lives, and how is UNICEF's work helping them?
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In January 2012, Gemma Parkin from the UNICEF UK Media Team visited Djibouti in east Africa with The Sun newspaper to see how the country's only children's hospital is coping with the ongoing malnutrition crisis.
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This month, a Save the Children and Oxfam report was published with a stark and timely message for us all about the need to act quickly when a humanitarian disaster looms. Highlighting the difficulties faced by humanitarian aid agencies like UNICEF when responding to the Horn of Africa food crisis, the report, A Dangerous Delay, stresses how important it is for governments and donors to respond swiftly when the early warning signs for emergencies appear.
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The dust has finally settled at UNICEF after the royal media frenzy . The day was a resounding success. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had said they wanted to put the world’s spotlight back on the East Africa Crisis, and their visit to UNICEF’s...
Last month, UNICEF UK held its annual reception at the Royal Society of Arts in Aldwych. The reception is a yearly meeting of our donors and fundraisers. The s peakers this year were UNICEF UK President Lord Ashdown and Dermot Carty, UNICEF's Head of...
It was only my third day as the UNICEF media intern and I had already secured a place on London Tonight. Or so I thought. My role was to hold the start line for the Bike 4 Somalia charity event which took place in Stepney Gardens last week. Unfortunately...
Last week over 100 young East Londoners from six schools united for a sponsored cycle ride to raise money for children suffering in the worsening famine in East Africa . Amidst much excitement and healthy competitive spirit, the youngsters successfully...
While in Dhoobley, Somalia last week, I visited a wet feeding centre run by the African Rescue Committee, an excellent Somali NGO that also works on the Kenya side of the border. The centre provides 3 meals a day of corn soya blend porridge for up to...
Last week, our Executive Director David Bull visited a number of refugee camps in Somalia and northern Kenya to see how UNICEF's work is making a difference. Yesterday, he fielded questions about the East Africa crisis and UNICEF's response via a live...
Eva Gilliam reports from Mogadishu, Somalia "He doesn’t sleep," says Furiyay, a mother whose young son sits lethargically on her lap. The boy is thin and his legs are covered with sores. "He vomits the whole night and has diarrhoea," his mother...
This article was written for UNICEF by our reporter Indrias Getachew. MOYALE DISTRICT, Ethiopia — Berida Jateni appears worried and gaunt and much older than her 40-years. Sitting next to her hut in drought-ravaged Borena near the Kenya border she...
Dear Supporter, I am writing to ask for your support in moving the news agenda on. The story about phone hacking does matter, but there’s another, far bigger and vital story that’s going under-reported. This morning, the United Nations will...