Kids of Canada | UNICEF Canada: For Every Child

Learn more about UNICEF’s work under the topic "Kids of Canada".

Dr. Jillian & Jamie Casap’s “On Our Street” introduces kids to poverty, and how to help

Poverty and even homelessness can be an invisible condition— it is not always seen, and even when it is, it is too often ignored.

Kids of Canada: UNICEF Canada wants to hear from you

Are you a young person living in Canada? One Youth is looking for children and young people to share their personal story, good or bad, on growing up in Canada and how it has affected their life.

Dear Parents: This is why we’re always online

I am here to tell you about a generation that lives on this wonderful thing that we like to call “The Internet”.

An Open Letter to Canada from Your Youth

Dear Canada, we’re the future, correct? Well then, and perhaps this may come as a surprise to you, but your future’s well-being is far from what it needs to be. Canada, are you surprised? So are we. We’re surprised when we hear of another 17-year-old who has committed suicide because of the lack of funding for mental health services.

Youth are what they eat (or don’t eat) at school

This is the first in a series of youth guest blogs providing a diversity of perspectives from Canada’s young people in support of UNICEF Canada’s One Youth movement.

Teens Talk, but is Canada Listening?

I wasn’t sure where to start this blog post, whether it be with a personal story of my own suicide attempts or if I should jump into the threatening statistics of teen suicide and how unrighteously they are disregarded.

I am a Person, Not an Illness

In response to UNICEF Report Card 14, which ranks Canada 25 out of 41 rich countries in child well-being, Canadian youth are speaking out about the issues that matter to them

Bullying - Record It. Report It. Don’t Support It.

What do you think about when you hear the word “bullying”? I think that many people probably find themselves imagining a classic school scenario, where you’re being beat up for lunch money, the jock of the school threatening you with a defiant punch in the face and maybe a scared group of kids slyly turning their backs off to the side. We are educated in schools about what it means to be a bully, and how to react as a bystander (don’t stand by), but do people know about the effects of bullying and the subconscious actions which sometimes hurt even more?

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