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[Tap Project] Launching tomorrow in NYC...

The Tap Project launches tomorrow. Over 250 New York City restaurants will invite their diners to pay $1 for the tap water they normally enjoy for free. All the money raised will help UNICEF provide...

[Thinking Aloud] The importance of clean and safe water

This Thursday, March 22, is World Water Day. I know what some of you are thinking: Here we go again, one more manufactured holiday to get people to pay attention to another issue! And, you would be...

[Online] Mia Farrow talk show tonight . . . how you can help

Thank you, Fieldnotes readers and UNICEF supporters, for the emails and comments you've posted here in support of Mia Farrow's recent trip to Africa. I wanted you to know we're collecting your...

[In the Field] Mia Farrow: Djorlo Village, Eastern Chad

UNICEF/ HQ07-0130/Pirozzi Burned and looted homes stand empty in an abandoned village. Today we went to what had been the village of Djorlo, population 2,000. At about 5:00 am last December, the...

[In the Field] Mia Farrow: Goz Beida, Eastern Chad

© UNICEF/Pirozzi In these conditions, children are also at risk for several diseases that are entirely preventable with low-cost interventions like the UNICEF-supplied oral polio vaccine that we gave...

[In the Field] Mia Farrow: Paoua northwest Central African Republic (CAR)

© UNICEF/HQ07-0128/Pirozzi This primary school is run by a Catholic mission in the area and provides schooling for some 380 children. The school's name, Nakotanguia, means "With Great Hope" in the...

[In the Field] Mia Farrow: Bossongoa to Markonda in Northwest Central African Republic

© UNICEF/HQ07-0133/Pirozzi I listen as women and children recount the atrocities they have witnessed. Some 1,000 people live here in the bush after their homes in the nearby village were burned and...

[In the Field] Mia Farrow: "The face of conflict and poverty" in Central Africa

UNICEF/Pirozzi We took Niece and her mother to the only hospital in the region and we are hoping she will survive. Bossongoa, Northwest Central African Republic Hello, I'm UNICEF Ambassador Mia Farrow...

[In the Field] Mia Farrow Reports from Central African Republic

UNICEF/HQ07-0129/Pirozzi UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow shows photographs she has taken to a group of children in a northern village of the Central African Republic. UNICEF Ambassador Mia...