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Kids in Abidjan, southern Côte d'Ivoire, participate in a community event on World Children's Day 2024.

10 Ways Investing in Children’s Well-Being Changed the World

Here are 10 major advances that UNICEF and partners helped make possible.
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Nadejda, a 16-year-old Ukranian refugee, at her ECW-supported EDUTech lab in Moldova.

A Safe Space for Refugee Learners in Moldova

A UNICEF program delivered with funding from ECW is providing Ukrainian refugee children with remote learning, safe spaces and hope.
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Angelika, a chemistry and biology teacher who helped developed the Pi-station learning platform to help Ukrainian students overcome language barriers to learning, instructs students in a classroom in Warsaw.

Transforming How Refugee Students Learn

An innovative platform that UNICEF helped implement helps overcome language and other barriers for Ukrainian children attending school in Poland.
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Jehan and her 9-year-old daughter, Aisha, in the Gaza Strip.

UNICEF Acts Swiftly During Ceasefire to Address Huge Needs of Gaza's Children

UNICEF is on the ground in the Gaza Strip, working to meet the critical needs of children caught in a catastrophic situation.
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A vaccinator carrying a vaccine cold box travels by foot to reach communities where children are waiting to be immunized against polio as part of a national campaign..

Moving Toward the Finish Line in the Polio Fight

A nationwide immunization campaign backed by UNICEF and partners kicked off this month in Pakistan, one of the last two endemic countries.
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Attendees at Dubai Future Forum, November 2024

Reflections From a UNICEF Youth Foresight Fellow

UNICEF's Youth Foresight Fellowship equips young leaders with the skills and opportunities they need to anticipate, envision, design and lead.
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In the drought-stricken Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia, 16-year-old Fatuma, leans against the white board in her classroom. She is in school instead of in an early marriage thanks to child protection programs supported by UNICEF.

Foreign Aid Is Critical to the Well-Being of Millions of Children

Support from the private sector — including individual donors — is needed more than ever to keep important humanitarian and development work going.
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On Feb. 6, 2023, more than 200 girls at Al-fayha Basic School for girls in Khartoum joined UNICEF, partners, parents, teachers and donors to celebrate International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.

Stepping Up the Pace to End Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help.
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In Port-au-Prince on Jan. 27, 2025, UNICEF Global Spokesperson James Elder interacts with students during a visit to a school that UNICEF and partners relocated from La Saline in 2023, after students got caught up in a clash between two armed groups.

Dispatch From Haiti: What Children Need Most

Multiple threats to children include recruitment into armed groups. What UNICEF is doing to deliver urgently needed support, protection and hope.
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