UNICEF in action

Three years ago, while visiting Malawi, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell noticed that children were lacking one of the fundamentals of the schoolhouse experience: chairs and desks. So he partnered with...

You’ve probably heard about the ongoing conflict in Syria . Or the typhoon that struck the Philippines . Or the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa . But did you know that UNICEF responded to...

Ara Yoo is a Program Specialist for UNICEF UK. Jane MacPhail shows me a mountain of drawings from Syrian refugee children at Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. We go through them together, and I notice...

My father, Danny Kaye, whose 100th birthday we are celebrating today, was appointed the first UNICEF ambassador to the world’s children in 1954. Though my father achieved legendary success in...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow is in Lebanon to meet refugees from the conflict in Syria , as the needs and numbers of those fleeing continue to rise. She is blogging from the field, and you...

Lisa Szarkowski is the Vice President for Public Advocacy and Strategic Communications at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Hurricane Sandy greeted me on arrival in Port au Prince on October 24th. When I left...

In just 35 terrifying seconds, everything came crashing down: homes razed, hospitals and schools destroyed, block after block turned to mangled mountains of rubble and dust. Thirty-five seconds that...

This blog post was written by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF's End Trafficking team. In San Antonio, a five-year-old boy is abused by his stepfather. By the time he is 14, he has been exploited by a child...

UNICEF’s Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign was everywhere in Boston.