UNICEF: NBA Star And Goodwill Ambassador Pau Gasol
NBA star and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Pau Gasol is here to highlight the country’s fight against HIV/AIDS.
READ MOREUNICEF: Helping Children Stay In School In The Occupied Palestinian Territory
The basic right of children to go to school is continually threatened in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Access to schools is regularly jeopardized by Israeli military operations and intra-Palestinian conflict.
READ MOREUNICEF: “Go to School” Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan
Progress has come quickly to Southern Sudan. Two years after a historic peace agreement ended Africa’s longest-running civil war, urban roads are congested with traffic and classrooms that once lacked students are now overflowing.
READ MOREUNICEF: Supporting Access To Early Education For Children In Rural Mongolia
By whatever transport available, parents bring their children to a lone Mongolian Ger on a vast dry plain. Inside, young boys and girls are learning a popular folk song.
READ MOREUNICEF: Nafa Centers Give Guinean Girls A Second Chance At Education
UNICEF works in a consulting capacity with the Ministry of Education, developing guidelines for Nafa centers so that they will continue to provide girls with the knowledge and skills to make the best of their lives.
READ MOREChildren Orphaned by AIDS in Zimbabwe Struggle to Survive
Once things were brighter here; there were job and fathers and mothers. Disease and death wrecked all that. Now, it is their frail and aging grandmother who is the centre of their lives.
READ MOREUNICEF: Guinea Townships Take Extra Steps To Make Sure Their Children Receive A Quality Education
In the past 5 years, the number of Guinean girls going to school has increased dramatically thanks to a combined effort by local and national governments and development partners.
READ MORELearning Centers Help Restore Hope for Palestinian Teens
The mission is to help children deal with feelings of hopelessness and provide a safe place for them to thrive.
READ MOREUNICEF: Mongolia Faces Challenges in Keeping Herder Children in School
On the steppes of western Mongolia, Bayarkhuu and his schoolmate Tsengel herd a tribe of goats in search of better grazing grounds.
READ MOREUNICEF: Trading Guns for Textbooks
As a child, Mayom Mabuoung was a soldier in Southern Sudan. Like many other children, Mayom’s transition to civilian life in southern Sudan was not easy.
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