United Nations Children's Fund

Rebuilding Zimbabwe’s Health System

By Kristin Palitza
A newborn baby lets out a feeble cry as midwife Anna Mungara tends to a small wound on its head, at the provincial hospital in Masvingo, a town in southeast Zimbabwe.

It Takes a Village to Educate a Girl

By Souleymane Maâzou
A decade ago, less than a third of school-aged girls in Niger were in class. Today, though significant cultural and religious opposition remains, nearly two-thirds of girls are enrolled in school.

Kenyan Men Turning the Tide Against FGM

By Miriam Gathigah
For the Samburu community in northern Kenya it was bad enough that Julius Lekupe had not sired a son - it was even worse that his eldest daughter refused to be “cut”.