Tag: UNICEF

The Clipper Race And UNICEF Celebrate 10 Years Of Partnership With £2m Raised To Help UNICEF Protect Childhood Worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

On Saturday July 25th, the Clipper Race crews completed the Clipper 2025-26 Race, marking a decade of partnership with leading child rights organisation, UNICEF, as a team and charity partner.   Over 10 years of partnership the Clipper Race crews have raised an incredible £2,013,968.00 to help UNICEF build systems that protect children and create lasting change to make childhood unstoppable. UNICEF works in over 190 countries around the world, protecting children’s rights and providing life-changing support, such as healthcare and vaccinations, clean water and nutrition and safe spaces to play and learn.  To celebrate the Clipper Race’s commitment towards UNICEF’s work for children around the world, Team UNICEF’s crew members have shared their journeys from over the years in a short film featuring UNICEF UK Ambassador Dermot O’Leary.   Dermot O’Leary,…

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UN report: Global hunger levels ease for third consecutive year as regional disparities persist

Stuart Mitchell

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) report, released recently by five United Nations specialized agencies. The report estimates that 7.8 percent of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1 percent in 2024 and 8.6 percent in 2022, confirming a sustained, albeit slow, improvement. This means that…

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Children are adopting AI technologies more than three times faster than adults

Stuart Mitchell

“AI is here. It is a growing part of all of our lives. And it is already shaping childhood around the world – for better and for worse. “New evidence is laying bare the scale and speed of its uptake by children worldwide, while exposing the risks and divides emerging alongside it. “Analysis by UNICEF drawing on new data from 10 countries estimates that at least 20 million children have used Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many are outpacing adults by adopting it at rates more than three times faster. “More than…

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UNICEF names Lamine Yamal as a Goodwill Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

18-year-old Barcelona and Spain football star Lamine Yamal has been announced as UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador, championing every child’s right to play. The appointment was made on International Day of Play, marked annually on 11 June to recognise play as essential to children’s cognitive, social, and physical development – and on the opening day of the FIFA World Cup, where Lamine will represent his national team, Spain. “I am incredibly proud to become a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador,” said Lamine. “Growing up, all I had was a family, a ball, a…

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UNICEF turns the world’s most passive habit into an act of generosity with “Sleep Aid for UNICEF”

Stuart Mitchell

Creative brand studio SEK (part of Grey) and UNICEF Finland recently launch Sleep Aid for UNICEF, an ambient album designed to help people fall asleep, with streaming royalties going to UNICEF’s work for children. The premise is simple: press play, fall asleep, do good. Finns are among Europe’s most sleep-deprived populations. Research shows that insomnia symptoms affect more than a third of Finnish adults: insomnia diagnoses are 1.5–2 times more prevalent in Finland than in comparable European countries. The trend is similar globally: a 2025 survey from the American Academy…

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