“How can I help you?” Pause. “Have you travelled out of the country recently?” Pause. “ Please stay on the line. I am connecting you to a doctor.” The young woman reassuring someone on the other end of the line is Sadia Saleem (pictured above), a call agent at the ‘ Sehat Tahaffuz (meaning health protection in Urdu) 1166’ helpline centre in…

The chances of survival for 6-month old Rahama were looking very slim. Rahama's 18-year-old mother, Masa’uda Abdullahi, was worried. “I gave birth to Rahama when I was only seven months pregnant. I was very afraid that I was going to lose her,” she said, cradling her baby. But a health worker who arrived in her community in Kebbi State, north-…

Border closures and other restrictions have contributed to food scarcity and rising prices

Volunteers are finding new ways of reaching people with key messages about the coronavirus

In partnership with the government and the private sector, UNICEF India has supported the development of a career-guidance portal that provides secondary school students with knowledge and skills to identify and make informed decisions about their educational and occupational pathways. Download file (PDF, 357,21 KB)

JUBA, South Sudan, 7 May 2020 – UNICEF today welcomed the news that 85 children have been released from detention in South Sudan as part of efforts to decongest prisons as a prevention measure in the fight against COVID-19. The children are being reunited with their parents or legal guardians.  A further 11 children remain in prison in the country…

NEW YORK, 7 May 2020 – An estimated 116 million babies will be born under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF said today ahead of Mother’s Day. These babies are projected to be born up to 40 weeks after COVID-19 – currently straining health systems and medical supply chains all over the world – was recognized as a pandemic on March 11. New…

Today, more children than ever before are displaced within their own countries. At the end of 2019, an estimated 46 million people were internally displaced by conflict and violence. More than 4 in 10, or 19 million, were to be children. This report presents the scale and scope of the internal displacement of children and their families around the…, The lives of internally displaced children 1 LOST AT HOME The risks and challenges for internally displaced children and the urgent actions needed to protect them Acknowledgments This publication was developed by the UNICEF Data and Analytics Section, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, in partnership with the Migration and…

A mother shows how she has been keeping her children safe and learning

Relatively limited access to the internet makes TV a better option in Bangladesh for remote learning