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What you missed this week
You’ve heard of drones used by the military, maybe even by Dominos for delivering pizza, but have you heard of drones being used to save lives in crises? We’re guessing […]
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Just a fence away: getting aid to Syria from Turkey
The drive to the border town of Mardin in southeast Turkey was long. We reached the town in the evening, a sleepy border town that has become a centre of […]
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4 days, 16 trucks, 25,000 Syrian children
“We’re done,” shouted an excited aid worker from across the fence. Thumbs up. Colleagues who had very quickly become friends applauded and cheered. We had just sent the last UNICEF […]
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Homs as the chronicle of slow deaths foretold
Ramez*, a 17-year-old resident of old Homs, had gone without eating for two days. His eyes lit up when he found half a can of tuna in the abandoned basement. […]
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Photo of the week: Orlando Bloom visits Jordan
This week’s Photo of the Week taken by photographer Giovanni Diffidenti shows 12-year-old Esmaeil (left) and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom sharing a laugh near Esmaeil’s family’s two-room...
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Photo of the Week: Struggling to attend school
In this photo, 11-year-old Nour (right), who has Down Syndrome, plays a game with Ebru, a youth worker from the Turkish Red Crescent, at the shelter where Nour and her […]
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Photo of the Week: Syrian crisis continues
As the crisis continues, the friendship between these two young boys is easily readable in this week’s photograph taken by Karin Schermbrucker in the Domiz refugee camp, in the northern […]
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Will children of Syria ever heal from the scars of war?
With over 160,000 people dead, the conflict in Syria is among the most brutal of recent times. Now into its fourth year, the violence shows no signs of abating, while […]
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Yazidi refugees in Syria: lifesaving UNICEF supplies delivered
“We walked for more than 20 hours with no food or water,” says Juan, an adolescent girl who arrived at Nawrouz refugee camp in north-east Syria three days ago, along […]
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Helping children in crisis – a record month for UNICEF
At the end of this week we will mark a major milestone – over 1,000 metric tonnes (MT) of life-saving supplies will have been sent to Central African Republic, Iraq, […]
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For Syrian children, the harsh winter brings more woes
“We really need help to stay warm this winter,” says Ibrahim* (10) who lives with his family in an Aleppo shelter after they were displaced from their home in Aleppo […]
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La nieve no es divertida para los niños de Siria
¿Qué es lo primero que te viene a la cabeza cuando piensas en el invierno? Muñecos de nieve, la diversión de lanzarse bolas de nieve, un café caliente, castañas, mantas […]
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Children have the right to be children, not soldiers
This month marks ten years since my first negotiation to release ‘child soldiers’ from armed forces. I still remember the look of fear mixed with excitement of Jean-Baptiste* as he […]
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Keeping hope alive for the children of Syria
Za’atari refugee camp is a place that’s become famous in Jordan and abroad. I remember the day it opened, in the summer of 2012, when it was no more than […]
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Syria: reflections on a visit to Homs
The highway from Beirut to Damascus is lined with brightly-coloured billboards, depicting some of the landmarks of this historic and beautiful country. There’s one from the souks in the Old […]
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الإبقاء على الأمل حيا من أجل أطفال سوريا
اشتُهر اسم مخيم الزعتري للاجئين في الأردن وغيره من البلاد، ولا زلت أذكر يوم افتتاحه في صيف عام 2012، عندما كان مجرد رقعة رملية مقفرة على مقربة من الحدود مع […]
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سوريا: انطباعات من زيارتي لحمص
على الطريق السريع الواصل بين بيروت ودمشق ترى الكثير من اليافطات الملونة التي تُظهر بعض المعالم الهامة في هذه البلاد التاريخية الجميلة. فهناك صورة تمثل أسواق مدينة حلب القديمة، وصورة […]
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A volunteer’s commitment to helping Syrian mothers and babies
Janda, a 24-year-old volunteer health worker at Darashakran Camp for Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, starts her day early. She came to Darashakran when her family left […]
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The emotional impact of protracted conflict on children: rethinking our response
Recently, after a planned trip to Syria was cancelled on the border due to visa problems, I returned to Beirut. Later, I sat down with a colleague from Syria, who […]
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Working to survive: Yasmeen’s story
Entering the Ghazieh collective shelter in south Lebanon, I was struck by the conditions: women, men, the elderly, children, babies were all packed into small rooms rented for US$300 a […]
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