Kenya

By Antonia Maiolo, UNICEF Australia Communications Intern. Here in Australia it’s that time of year when most people are preparing to celebrate Christmas with loved ones. While Aussie kids are hoping that on Christmas morning they will un-wrap the latest gadgets and toys, children in drought-stricken East Africa are not as fortunate. Read more...

By Adam Baidawi, UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador
Neuroscientists have found that over 80 per cent of calories that newborns ingest fuel their brains. The colossal statistic accounts for how rapidly the young brain grows and develops.

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By Mia Cox, UNICEF Australia Advocacy Intern
While media headlines give us the blow-by-blow developments of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, a much bigger, life-threatening and rapidly escalating disaster is slipping under the radar of international attention.
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