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Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps

·May 11, 2025·3 min read

The tournament is more than a sporting event. It’s a lifeline. In Ma’rib Governorate, where over 2.3 million internally displaced people have settled, families live in makeshift shelters, often after being forced to flee multiple times. Water is scarce, the heat is unforgiving, and access to education and health care...

Dreams of returning home dashed by reality in Gaza City

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·February 2, 2025·4 min read

Tess Ingram, Communications Manager for UNICEF Middle East and North Africa, is in the northern city where she witnessed people moving through the streets on donkeys, in cars, or by bicycle. “There’s a lot of people with shovels trying to remove rubble, and of course you can see people setting...

Trans in Türkiye: The UN ‘breathed life back into my dreams’

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·January 6, 2024·3 min read

first glance, one would not notice the tumultuous journey that Shiraz has faced in order to find her place in the world. She is studying programming, and dreams of becoming a heart surgeon. She enjoys belly dancing, with her TikTok videos racking up thousands of views and likes. However, the...

First Person: ‘Simple dreams’ of Syrians following earthquake

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·April 1, 2023·4 min read

Shirin Yaseen from the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General visited northwestern Syria as part of an interagency mission to assess the situation there. “On the day we visited Jindairis in northern Syria, one of the areas most affected by the February earthquake, the weather conditions were very bad. A...

Fulfilling the UN dreams of Kale, a teenager battling cancer

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·January 22, 2023·6 min read

A year ago, Kale, who lives in California, started to have blurred vision in his right eye. After taking medical tests, his family received the devastating news that he had a tumour located in his right optic nerve. “This year has been a struggle for Kale,” says his father, William,...