Child Survival

Kidnapped by an armed group when he was a young teenager in South Sudan, Christian (name changed) is now free and receiving extensive psychosocial services through a UNICEF-supported rehabilitation program.
Helping Traumatized Children Learn to Forget in South Sudan
A caring social worker helps children released by armed groups begin the long road back to happiness.
A boy photographed at a refugee camp in eastern Sudan is one of over 25,000 children who have fled Ethiopia's Tigray region to escape violence since early November.
Crisis in Ethiopia: UNICEF Pushes to Get Aid to Children in Tigray
UNICEF has been able to get some emergency supplies through, but it's nowhere near the scale of what's urgently needed.
Children and families affected by Tropical Cyclone Eloise queue for food at an aid distribution point outside Beira, Mozambique.
In Mozambique, 90,000 Kids Need Help in Wake of Cyclone Eloise
UNICEF rushes aid to the hardest hit areas of Sofala province, where over 170,000 people have been severely affected by the superstorm.
On January 19, 2021, a child peers out of a tent in Kafr Losin Camp in northwestern Syrian Arab Republic
In Syria, A Harsh Winter for Children Displaced by Conflict
A decade of conflict has taken an awful toll on children in Syria. Now severe winter weather is making a bad situation worse.
Thousands of people migrating from Honduras formed a caravan heading north in mid-January 2021.
Help Migrant Children Fleeing Violence and Poverty
A child is a child. UNICEF works with partners to protect and empower migrant and refugee children every step of the way.
Five-year-old Queen Philip collects water at a UNICEF-supported water point in Yambio, South Sudan.
4 Ways UNICEF Is Helping Children in South Sudan
UNICEF is looking out for children's needs in the world's youngest nation, where overlapping humanitarian crises threaten their survival.
Two boys in Bilwi, Nicaragua, search for scraps of wood to help their parents rebuild their house after it was destroyed by the strong winds and rains brought by Hurricane Iota.
Long Road Ahead for Hurricane Recovery in Central America
UNICEF issues urgent appeal for support to assist families who lost everything to Eta and Iota.
Thirteen-year-old Hernan and Dafne, 7, stand with their mother, Sonia, amid the wreckage of their home in Guatemala, destroyed by Hurricanes Eta and Iota.
Migrant Flight: The Climate Change Factor
Extreme weather events across Latin America and the Caribbean have left already vulnerable children and families increasingly desperate.
Tropical Cyclone Yasa made landfall in Bua, Vanua Levu, Fiji at 6 PM local time on December 17, 2020.
Tropical Cyclone Yasa Hits Fiji
UNICEF will work with the Government of Fiji to help those caught in the path of the 2nd major cyclone to hit the region this year.
A young girl caught in the crossfire during fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region recovers from her injuries at her home in Humera.
UNICEF Rushes Aid to Ethiopian Refugees in Sudan
A UN inter-agency response ramps up to assist tens of thousands of refugees fleeing ongoing violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
Juana, 9, photographed with her mother and siblings at a shelter in Campur, San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
Inside Look: COVID-19 and Child Protection in Guatemala
What it means to be a child migrant during a pandemic, & how UNICEF is tackling the issues that force children to flee in the first place.
Fatme, 8, and her family were caught in the devastating blast that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020.
Putting Lives Together Again in Lebanon
After a deadly explosion shattered Beirut, UNICEF & partners leapt into action to action to help children & families get back on their feet.

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