Children and water
Water is life. Yet 4,500 children die each day from waterborne illnesses. One in 6 people lacks access to safe water and fewer than half of all households have sanitation facilities.

"Go to School" in Southern Sudan: Suku's story
During Sudan's civil war, only one percent of girls completed primary school but girls like Suku are beginning to change that—she will graduate from secondary school next year.

Immunization in Namibia
Namibia completed the second round of a campaign to immunize all 1.8 million of its people in response to a polio outbreak that has killed 21 people to date.

Earthquake in Indonesia
More than 5,000 people are dead and at least 130,000 homeless — almost half of them children.

Drought in southern Somalia
Children in Somalia have already survived war, hunger, floods and forced dislocation.

Drought in northern Kenya
More than 8 million people face starvation and disease in drought-stricken East Africa and the Horn.

Unite for Children, United Against AIDS: Year Two
In 2007, 25 years into the epidemic, children are still largely missing from the global HIV/AIDS agenda and continue to suffer the discrimination, anguish and impoverishment linked to the disease.

HIV/AIDS in Malawi
One family's story in the Kuanda village, northern Malawi.

Tea Leoni in Viet Nam
October 2005
Téa visited Viet Nam in October 2005 to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly its impact on women and children.