17 year old Lilian lives with her husband close to her extended family in Pelewa Town, a rural Maasai community in Kajiado County, Kenya, and has a four year old son called Maren.

33 year old Wilfred Muema is the Nursing Officer in charge of Piliwa health facility in Pelewa Town, Kajiado, Kenya.

36 year old Miriam is pregnant with her seventh baby. She lives in Pelewa Town – a rural Maasai community in Kajiado County, Kenya – with her husband and their six children; three boys and three girls.

International celebrity and UNICEF ambassador, Emma Bunton, joins Pampers and UNICEF to reflect on the 10 year-long partnership that has helped protect the lives of tens of millions of women and their babies. An estimated 500,000 newborn lives have been saved and 100 million women and their newborns protected from the deadly disease, maternal and … Continued

As we start to celebrate the lasting progress in tackling poverty around the world for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), we are bringing attention to children, who have been so often missed from poverty debates. Here are 7 facts that galvanize UNICEF and partners to take action to end child … Continued

2015 is the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and it is also a time to reflect on progress made during the MDG era. The MDGs challenged the global community to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 and 2015. The WHO/UNICEF … Continued

My job is to ensure that more people have access to water and sanitation in Yemen, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. After less than a month there, I had to leave Sana’a, along with other international United Nations colleagues, because of the escalation in conflict. It is now the holy month … Continued

Quarantining an entire community to stamp out a new case of Ebola requires a complex operation to reduce the strain for residents who suddenly find themselves behind an orange plastic barrier. And in rural Sierra Leone there are additional challenges – in normal times food is often bought on a day-to-day basis from a nearby … Continued

  Sixteen-year-old Grace fled her home in March this year after witnessing the brutal beheading of her father by the armed group Boko Haram, in Baga, Northeast Nigeria. “When my father was killed, we had to leave our town,” she recalls. “I thought that was the end of the road for me.” But it wasn’t. … Continued

  Syria was a leader in basic education in the region before the crisis began in 2011: an estimated 97% of primary school-age children were enrolled in school. Today, more than half of school-aged children in Syria are out of school. A recent report by UNICEF and partners highlights how severely the conflict has damaged education, decimating … Continued

Every five minutes a child dies as a result of violence and millions are left unsafe in their homes, schools and communities. The stories of these children are rarely told. Through the EndViolence Youth Letter initiative voices of 18 child survivors of violence from across the world are now being heard. From violent conflict in … Continued

Please note that these videos contain graphic descriptions which are distressing. Since 2011, 11 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes. UNICEF is on the ground in Syria & the surrounding countries providing children with clean drinking water, health care, education opportunities and the psychosocial support they need to flourish. Aiden Gillen, Colette … Continued