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Reuniting children and parents in Uzbekistan

Laura Clark, Tue, Dec 18 2012 11:28 AM

In Uzbekistan, over 46,000 orphans and vulnerable children live in institutions rather than a family home. Most are children with disabilities. But, as Laura Clark explains, UNICEF's work is helping to reunite parents and children.

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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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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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East Africa Crisis: Hasno and Ahmed's story

Jessica Mony, Mon, Jul 18 2011 6:03 PM
When we meet Hasno Ali, she is sitting surrounded by other mothers and their toddlers sitting on buckets. She cradles her youngest son, Ahmed, who is seven months old. Sick with both measles and pneumonia, he has had to face many challenges to stay alive...

In the mood for love: Maggie Cheung helps children

Andy Brown, Fri, Jun 3 2011 3:42 AM

Wednesday 1 June was National Children’s Day in China, which made it the perfect time for me to visit Beijing. For the week leading up to Children’s Day, UNICEF China ran a campaign around the issue of child poverty in rural provinces. The face of the campaign was actress Maggie Cheung.

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Final Preparations for UNICEF's Jordan Trek

Alex Carley, Fri, Apr 15 2011 3:26 PM
© Across the Divide/2010 With only three weeks to go until we embark on UNICEF’s latest trekking challenge in Jordan, our 23 intrepid trekkers are busy making last minute preparations and collecting as many donations as they can before we set...

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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