Tag: UNICEF

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where funding cuts are putting half a million children’s futures at risk

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited Bangladesh this week to see the impact of severe cuts to official development assistance (ODA) on the half a million children living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.  During the four-day visit, Bloom met with children, families, and aid workers to understand the scale of the funding challenges threatening children’s education, health, protection, and survival in the world’s largest refugee camps.  “The children in these camps are 100 per cent dependent on aid, but that aid is sadly shrinking,” said Bloom. “I met…

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Musician and Poet Arlo Parks supports UNICEF UK and Dove to build children’s body confidence and self-esteem

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF UK Ambassador Arlo Parks joined pupils at Moreland School in Islington for a Dove Self-Esteem Project workshop (DSEP) focused on building body confidence and self-esteem. Arlo is an award-winning musician and poet known for her advocacy for youth empowerment. In 2024 she was appointed the youngest ever Ambassador to UNICEF UK and her work with UNICEF has taken her to Sierra Leone, where she met young people leading grassroots change in their communities. Arlo is passionate about helping young people feel seen, valued and confident in who they are…

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Kimberly-Clark Launches Enhanced Global Partnerships to Advance Essential Care for 24 Million Women and Girls

Stuart Mitchell

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is deepening its commitment to advancing essential care for women and girls through four enhanced strategic, charitable partnerships. Through new programs with Baby2Baby, Plan International, Project HOPE, and UNICEF, Kimberly-Clark aims to expand access to life-changing care in Brazil, Peru, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the United States. Taken together, these partnerships will work to improve the lives of an estimated 24 million women and girls over the next three years.  This announcement is a direct result of the Kimberly-Clark Foundation‘s recent sharpening of its strategic focus: to…

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Global leaders unite to accelerate cervical cancer elimination efforts

Stuart Mitchell

Governments, donors, multilateral institutions, the private sector and partners today announced significant policy, programmatic, and financial commitments to eliminate one of the most preventable cancers.  At the 2nd Global Cervical Cancer Elimination Forum, hosted in Bali, Indonesia, on 17-19 June, leaders announced a wave of new investments and policy pledges to expand access to HPV vaccination, screening and treatment – bringing the world closer to making cervical cancer the first cancer to ever be eliminated.   The forum is attended by more than 300 participants, among them are high-level delegates,…

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Children’s wellbeing in world’s wealthiest countries took sharp turn for the worse in wake of COVID-19 pandemic – UNICEF

Stuart Mitchell

hildren in many of the world’s wealthiest countries saw marked declines in their academic performance, mental wellbeing, and physical health in the period since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis published by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.   Report Card 19: Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World compares data from 2018 and 2022, offering a perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic and global shutdowns affected children in 43 OECD and EU countries. Since the last comparable Report Card five years ago, the Netherlands and Denmark retained their…

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