UNICEF Television Vodcast

Maternal and child health care have come a long way since innovative pilot programmes were started five years ago in Madhya Pradesh, India.

“UNICEF is working on the ground, doing its best 24/7,” said Ms. Farrow. “But, really, the needs here are so great, they can’t do it alone.”

Watch Nicole, 9, teach her peer Miguel about the importance of vaccinations. Nicole is part of Brazil's Super Child Health Agent programme, which empowers children with the necessary knowledge to help ensure that both they and their peers stay healthy.

In the Niger, UNICEF has been promoting child-friendly and girl-friendly schools that aim to bring in more and more girls to school.

Vital supplies airlifted to Syrian Arab Republic As Syrians brace for a harsh winter, UNICEF supplies are airlifted from Iraq for the first aid delivery of its kind.

Syrian refugee children talk about living in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, now that winter has come.

Watch 12-year-old Dima discuss her struggles, including to complete her education, in Kawergosk refugee camp, northern Iraq.

Sayed Najibullah, who teaches in the tent school, says students just need the guidance and education to get them back on track.

At 15 years old, Barira was married by her parents to an abusive husband. Early marriage remains an issue for girls in Niger - according to UNICEF, one out of three girls are married before age 15.

In Somaliland, only a third of women giving birth have any kind of skilled personnel with them -- and, in rural areas, the numbers are much lower. Now, a three-year-long programme co-funded by the European Commission that targets maternal and newborn health in Somaliland and Puntland, is slowly changing this reality.

: A children’s club in Nepal gives students different platforms to grow.

A new programme provides water fit for drinking and irrigation, in Bangladesh.

Child labour rates in Niger reach as high as 43 per cent. Hadiza, like thousands of other young girls, did not have access to school and had to work at age 12 as a maid to take care of her blind grandmother and her little brother.

In Nepal, districts are in a race to become open defecation free.

Learn how countries around the world are thinking outside the box – creating innovative programmes, media campaigns and more to solve the problem of girls’ unequal access to education.