Middle East and North Africa | UNICEF Canada: For Every Child

Middle East and North Africa is one of the geographical regions where UNICEF is currently running programs for children in need. On this page, you will find more information on UNICEF’s work.

Water is happiness!

Investing in water, sanitation and hygiene is a priority.

Race against time to save millions of lives in Yemen

The continuing violence in Yemen is fueling one of the worst hunger crises in the world, with nearly seven million people not knowing where their next meal will come from and in desperate need of food assistance.

Eat, Play, Love—Why a Child's First 1,000 Days Make All the Difference

How to help kids get the best start in life? Nurture them — and give them low-cost, high-quality early childhood programs.

A two-sided reality for children trapped in Madaya

It has been over 100 days since people in the four besieged Syrian towns of Madaya, Zabadani in Rural Damascus and Kefraya and Al-Foah in northern rural Idleb, received any humanitarian assistance. Provision of aid to the 60,000 people who have been trapped under a years-long siege in these towns is restricted by the “Four-town agreement,” an arrangement that further complicates humanitarian operations. On 14 March 2017, UNICEF was part of an inter-agency convoy to the area and delivered much needed nutrition and medical supplies for 30,000 people in the four towns.

How Syria's Children Endure — Saja Tells Her Story

Meet Saja, 13. She lost her leg in a bomb attack more than two years ago in the Bab Al-Nairab neighborhood in Eastern Aleppo. Her brother was killed in another attack. After being displaced several times, she and her family have settled in the partially destroyed Al-Ashrafieh neighborhood in western Aleppo.

How Aleppo's orphans find a place to call home

What happens when you lose a parent in Syria?

5 things to know about children and famine

Children can’t wait. Famine, drought and armed conflict are devastating lives and futures

Another war in Yemen: The fight against malnutrition and disease

One-year-old Khawla Mohammed lies on the bed in Al-Sabeen Hospital in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a with a tube running through her nose. She is suffering from malnutrition and is also battling a chest infection which has affected her breathing.

Water is a family affair

For millions of people around the globe, water, sanitation and hygiene conditions have improved. Still, in 2015, 663 million people are using unsafe drinking water. VII Photo’s Ashley Gilbertson photographed in seven countries for UNICEF, making portraits of families and their daily water use. As part of World Water Day, we present some of these portraits.

An agenda for action on children uprooted

Nearly 50 million children are on the move — 28 million of them driven from their homes by conflict, and millions more migrating in the hope of finding a better, safer life. Far too many children encounter deadly danger, detention, deprivation and discrimination. The world must stand up for these children. It is time to take action.

Geographic Region: Middle East and North Africa

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