Innocent Murula, a UNICEF-supported community outreach worker, works to raise community awareness about mpox in Kamanyola, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on July 25, 2024. The ...

Foundational learning, the ability to read, write, and do basic math, is the bedrock of every child's education. This is not ...

I have heard some version of “Why should I care about kids with AIDS in Africa?” multiple times since the Trump administration announced the dismantling of USAID, a program that spends just 24 cents ...

In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 10 percent of children die before they turn 5 years old (SN: 8/3/22); in 2022 alone, around 2.8 million young children died in the entire region. Most are ...

More than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio, part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious paralytic disease that has been largely ...

Community-wide distribution of azithromycin to both infants and children in Niger was effective in preventing deaths, but communities where only infants received the drug had no decrease in mortality, ...

Analysis - Every year humanity produces nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic. Only a fraction ever gets recycled. Most ends up in rivers, oceans and soil, slowly breaking down into tiny, invisible ...

Africa is the second-largest continent in the world and the most multilingual. According to the African Language Program at Harvard, there are between 1000 and 2000 languages spoken on the continent, ...

Africa Kids Token is a blockchain-based initiative aimed at empowering African youth, particularly those involved in music, dance, and cultural expression. The token supports the community by creating ...

International Day of the African Child Statement by ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif With just a small investment in education for all of Africa's children, we could transform a continent, open ...

Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns ...