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Community Health Volunteers brave the heat and fighting to save lives in Yemen

Publication date: September 4, 2017

Across the country, community health volunteers are going from house to house, knocking on doors and explaining to parents and children alike, what all they need to do to protect themselves from getting AWD and suspected cholera.

Building resilience and social cohesion for children in Jordan

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 31, 2017

Seven years of conflict in Syria have driven millions of Syrians into exile. More than 660,000 of them are in Jordan, and 51 per cent are under the age of 18. With access only to precarious employment, the refugees in Jordan hold on to the hope of returning to their country, but violence and instability in the region suggest that the situation will not improve any time soon.

Ordinary heroes: 20 photos of life in the classroom

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 30, 2017

Children are some of the most resilient people—and in turn, heroes—that live among us, even if all they’re trying to do is learn.

Water: a precious resource

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 30, 2017

A restored water treatment plant in Bentiu gives residents new hope.

Back-to-school: A time to face the facts about Canada’s kids

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 28, 2017

With summer vacation nearly over, thousands of children across the country will soon be heading back to school.

Nepal Flood: UNICEF provides immediate response to affected communities

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 28, 2017

Nepal has experienced incessant rainfall for three days since 11 August 2017.

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

Posted by: Kids Of Canada

Publication date: August 22, 2017

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.

Children are #NotaTarget

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 18, 2017

Tens of millions of children caught up in armed conflict must be protected from life-threatening attacks and violence.

In Sierra Leone, mudslides rip a community apart

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 17, 2017

UNICEF is on the ground urgently responding to the needs of displaced families affected by the flooding and landslides in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown which have killed several hundred people including at least 109 children.

Denied a childhood

Posted by: UNICEF Canada

Publication date: August 14, 2017

In one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s poorest regions, the future of an entire generation of children is at risk.

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Community Health Volunteers brave the heat and fighting to save lives in Yemen

Building resilience and social cohesion for children in Jordan

Ordinary heroes: 20 photos of life in the classroom

Water: a precious resource

Back-to-school: A time to face the facts about Canada’s kids

Nepal Flood: UNICEF provides immediate response to affected communities

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

Children are #NotaTarget

In Sierra Leone, mudslides rip a community apart

Denied a childhood

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