Ambassador Cathy Kelly appeared on TV3’s Pat Kenny Show this week, to talk about the children under attack in Syria. Syrian children are enduring their eighth year of war. This week an alleged chemical attack in that region’s key town of Douma led to renewed focus on the humanitarian situation. Cathy Kelly put the facts … Continued

An Aer Lingus cabin crew team of UNICEF Ambassadors recently traveled to India to see the work the organisation is doing for children. The 2018 representatives of the Change for Good initiative visited some of UNICEF’s life-changing programmes for children in the Uttar Pradesh region to learn about the work being done there for children’s rights. In … Continued

By the end of 2017, there were 2.9 million people living in hard-to-reach areas in Syria, including besieged areas. The situation facing people like those in East Ghouta right now is extremely dangerous. They face a daily battle to survive with a severe lack of food, water and healthcare. But you can make a difference … Continued

  A seven-year-old in Syria has never known a day without war. Millions of Syrian children have grown up facing the violence on a daily basis. After seven years of conflict, Syria remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child. But despite the horrors they have endured and the … Continued

Total number of children in need in Syria – 6 Million  Number of children living in hard to reach areas – Nearly 1.5 million  Number of people under siege in East Ghouta – 393,00 (Half of them are children) UNICEF’s response in East Ghouta The provision of humanitarian assistance to children and families in hard to reach or besieged areas in Syria is … Continued

UNICEF has taken the unusual step of issuing a blank statement in the aftermath of the latest violence in Syria. The blank statement has been sent to all media outlets. See it reproduced below.   Statement The War ON Children in Syria   Reports of mass casualties among children in Eastern Ghouta and Damascus   … Continued

How a kind sister and some theraputic food and medicine saved one little girls life

  UNICEF Ireland polled 400 Irish teens for Safer Internet Day in early February, the results were surprising. Answering anonymously, almost half admitted lying about their age online in order to get around built-in safety measures on various platforms. A further 6% admitted maintaining fake profiles, while 3% own a secret phone. Full results available … Continued

UNICEF has launched an appeal for $3.6 billion to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to 48 million children living through conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies in 51 countries around the world in 2018. One in four of the world’s children live in a country affected by conflict or disaster. Around the world, violent conflict is … Continued

UNICEF Ireland Ambassador Joe Canning travelled to Syria at the end of 2017, to see the impact of seven years of war on children there. Canning was deeply affected by what he saw, as he told The Late Late Show host, Ryan Tubridy. The pair spoke about Nour, a little girl who made a big … Continued

The coming winter is the latest threat to Syrian children. Freezing temperatures, snow and heavy rain will make life a struggle for children who have been forced from their homes. “The winter months are even more brutal for children inside Syria,” says Hanaa Singer, UNICEF Syria Representative describing her visit to Aleppo. “I saw children … Continued

Conflict has changed every part of Syria over the past six years, including winter. Any happy memories of snow filled streets and fields are now gone. Forced to flee their homes and live in camps and shelters offering little protection from the cold, winter is a real struggle for children in Syria. “I couldn’t play … Continued