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Every child has the right to feel hopeful about the world
Justin van Fleet
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“We turn discarded laptops into learning devices for refugee and vulnerable children”
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Caring for South Sudan’s generation of traumatised children
900,000 children in the conflict-torn country need psychological aid - and safe spaces are helping them to heal.
Education in Syria: battling against school attacks, lost teachers and book shortages
A UNICEF Syria education specialist tells of the agency's efforts to repair damaged classrooms and get as many children into school as possible.
How girls who dropped out to have babies are being helped back into school
A project in Kenya is working with young mothers to get them back into secondary education.
Watch these powerful anti-child marriage videos from Bangladesh
New films are sending out the message that underage girls should never be forced by their families to wed and give up their education.
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In pictures: celebrating the world’s indigenous and ethnic children
On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we feature children whose native or ethnic backgrounds often leave them marginalised.