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Unleashing Potential

Empowering Children with Disabilities Through Inclusive Education

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Harmony amidst challenges

Echoes of joy in an earthquake-stricken village

WASH

Rebuilding hygiene and sanitation facilities for refugees

UNICEF’s story of providing Afghan refugee children with quality hygiene and sanitation facilities

Children that live in rural areas are often at a higher risk of dropping out of school. Not only because of the distance from their home to the school, but also the economic disadvantage many of the families face. UNICEF in collaboration with the Tunisian institutions and with the support of donors have been implementing the M4D program. According to USAID “The purpose of this project is to make an investment in human capital with a focus on securing the future of Tunisia by ensuring its children receive an

Keeping Most Vulnerable Children on the Path to Education

The Four-dimensional Model to Help Prevent School Drop-out

Ounallah emphasizes that “oxygen equipment isn’t used just for COVID. We can use it for anyone who has respiratory problems, and any treatment requiring intensive care.” That can be the case of newborn babies./ Kebili, Tunisia.

Strengthening Tunisian Health System During COVID-19

UNICEF and Partners Keeping Tunisian Children and their Families Healthy

A girl drinks water from a tap

10 facts about water that might surprise you

How unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene puts children at risk

All stories from the region

A psychosocial support group session, delivered at a temporary accommodation centre in Aleppo city as part of the support provided by UNICEF with partners to Grades 9 and 12 students, coming from a hard-to-reach locations in Aleppo to sit for their national exams.

Grade 9 students’ journey to sit for their national exams

Brave students in Aleppo go on a strenuous journey from hard-to-reach locations, crossing conflict lines from their war-ravaged areas

Yasser, 12, sitting with his mother at their house in Al-Hasakeh city, northeast Syria.

Yasser’s confidence grows through education

How UNICEF’s self-learning programme, supported by Education Cannot Wait, gives children hope of a better future

Farah, 11, displays a bunch of roses she handmade from paper.

Education and art

Farah’s powerful weapons in the face of hardship

Zeina, 8 years, in a UNICEF-supported Makani centre in Irbid. Her favourite activity is painting.

Measuring Life Skills

Life Skills and Citizenship Education in the Middle East and North Africa

Abdullah,19, appears next to his teacher during a UNICEF-supported remedial class he attends in Zawr Shammar centre

Knowledge is power

Abdullah’s story of determination to sit for his Grade 12 national exam

A portrait photo of Ayat, 28

Dreaming and learning to overcome years of hardship

The story of Ayat, a powerful woman from Syria

Mazen studies at home in Jaramana, rural Damascus, Syria.

Marking World Day Against Child Labour

We hear from a child what labour means for a child

A group of adolescent girls

Making Period Stigma History

Menstrual Hygiene Day 28 May

A number of children with disabilities attend a self-learning class at a UNICEF-supported center in Alkaterji neighborhood, Aleppo city, Syria.

Helping children with disability continue their education

Aleppo, northwest Syria.

Rukayya, 7, Elaf, 10 and Zahraa, 12. The family, originally from Saraqib, eastern rural Idlib, fled the violence to Lattakia for shelter around five years ago. Then, they moved again over two years ago, arriving in Sinjar, southeastern rural Idlib.

Keeping children warm through winter kits distribution

Sinjar, southeastern rural Idlib, northwest Syria.

Ithraa, 5, tries on items from a winter kit she received in Ein Tarma in east Ghouta, rural Damascus. Her sister, Farah, 18 months, is also busy checking the winter kit she received.

Winter kits distribution in east Ghouta, rural Damascus

Ahmad, 12, helps his mother carry the family’s newly received winter clothing kits, distributed by UNICEF in Roj camp, northeastern Syria.

Keeping children in Roj camp warm

UNICEF's distribution of winter clothing kits

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