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UNICEF supporter Ashley Cobile was part of a group that summited Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2018.

Lessons Learned and Money Raised on the Slopes of Kilimanjaro

Determined to help stop human trafficking, Ashley Cobile summited Mount Kilimanjaro — and raised more than $3,000 for UNICEF.

Mujinga, 30, holds her 2-week-old daughter, Francine, in Kananga, Kasai-Occidental Province, Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2019.

This One Basic Change to Health Clinics Could Save Millions of Lives

Improving water, sanitation and hygiene services at health care facilities could save more than 1 million mothers and newborns each year.

A student stands in the ruins of one of his former classrooms, which was destroyed in June 2015, at the Aal Okab school in Saada, Saada Governorate, Yemen, Monday 24 April 2017. Students now attend lessons in UNICEF tents nearby,

Yemen's Children Are Under Attack

After four years of war, blasts like the one that killed 14 Yemeni schoolchildren are hardly the only lethal threats facing families.

UNICEF UNITE Houston is Building Bridges between Communities via Art

UNICEF USA partners with Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston to make the world a better place for children…one bead at a time!

A mother in Pakistan with her five children, all of whom were recently registered and issued birth certificates using a new digital registration service launched by Telenor Pakistan in partnership with UNICEF.

How UNICEF Is Leveraging Mobile Tech to Get Results for Children

A partnership that enables digital birth registrations in Pakistan.

For World Children's Day, kids who live in an orphanage in the southeast of Côte d'Ivoire jumped for joy when they were given the chance to take over their dance class. © UNICEF/UN0257542/Diarassouba

The Power of Sports and Play

It’s hard to imagine childhood without play. When they play, children learn how to explore, invent, create and collaborate with others. Those skills help them when they are very young as they make friends and learn how to be in the world.

Primary school students in Aurangabad, Maharashtra state, India, after playing a cricket match organized by a UNICEF-supported program emphasizing social change through sport.

How Sport Drives Development — and Sets Kids Up for Success

A look at how physical play serves broader UNICEF goals for vulnerable children in education, protection, social inclusion and empowerment.

UNICEF-supported polio worker Afia (name changed), 19, vaccinates a child in an old military barrack in Afghanistan in March 2018.

Immunization Under Fire

Almost 8 million unvaccinated or under-immunized children live in fragile or humanitarian settings, including countries affected by conflict.

A UNICEF-supported health worker vaccinates a child against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) at the 9 Mile Health Clinic in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in March 2019.

Alarming Global Surge of Measles Cases Is a Wake-Up Call

More contagious than Ebola, tuberculosis or influenza, the potentially deadly measles virus is on the rise. Globally, measles cases increased by 48.1 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to data on 194 countries from the World Health Organization.