Child Survival | UNICEF Canada: For Every Child

Child Survival is one of UNICEF’s main programs. On this page, you will find more information about current and past UNICEF projects, child stories and ways you can get involved.

Through pandemics and epidemics, hope stays alive

UNICEF has always stood by children through crisis and disease.

What Comes Next

David shares his thoughts on the future - and next steps - as our understanding of COVID-19 continues to develop.

A little boy watches a nurse as he receives a vaccine shot.

How Far Will Health Workers Go?

Vaccines can prevent disease outbreaks now and in the future. No child is too far for health workers to go, to ensure that every child in their community has the right to good health.

Navigating Pregnancy During COVID-19

UNICEF sits down with experts to talk about how pregnant women can protect themselves and their babies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A mother practices kangaroo care with her newborn baby at a hospital.

Our Year in Review: 5 Stories of Success from 2019

In 2019, UNICEF reached almost all corners of the globe – 190 countries to be exact – to help save children’s lives. To celebrate the end of the year – and the end of a decade – we’ve chosen 5 stories from at home and abroad, to showcase how the tireless work of UNICEF staff and the generous support of our donors enables us to defend the right to childhood, for every child.

The journey: Ensuring access to safe drinking water in Venezuela

UNICEF is working with authorities and partners in providing safe and clean water to children and families.

Duglianis sits inside her home in Petare, Venezuela.

Children in Syria: An Ongoing Crisis

Syria’s nine year conflict has continued unabated, with all parties to the conflict intensifying military operations in Idleb, Aleppo, Hama, Eastern Ghouta and in the Northeast of the country. Despite the ongoing conflict, UNICEF has been working hard to provide essential supplies and support to children in the region.

A child looks out a bus window at a temporary camp for Syrian refugees in Iraq.

World Polio Day: Life as a Polio Survivor

Safia Ibrahim is a 37 year old Somali-born Canadian. When she was 1 years old, she contracted polio that rendered her unable to walk. For World Polio Day, Safia spoke with UNICEF Canada about the choice she never got to make but one that has impacted her entire life.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child at 30: A Reflection

Our president and CEO David Morley was in New York City recently for the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). While on the plane back to Toronto, he crafted this letter, about the impact being at the UNGA had on him and the work that we do as UNICEF Canada.

A UNICEF installation highlighting the grave scale of child deaths in conflict during 2018 on the North Lawn at the United Nations Headquarters.

Mozambique: Facing new challenges 6 months after Cyclone Idai and Kenneth

Children living in storm-affected areas face worsening food insecurity and nutrition crisis. The impact of two cyclones hitting Mozambique in one season was devastating and unprecedented; however, it is only now that the residual effects of the disaster are really beginning to be felt.

Category: Child Survival

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