This new data on children who are migrants and refugees will shock you Mark Leon Goldberg September 7, 2016 Unicef revealed some shocking new data on the number of children around the world who have been dislocated. The report, called Uprooted: The Growing Crisis for Refugee and Migrant Children finds that some 50 million children around the world are displaced, inc...
Infographic of the Day: A Shocking Statistic About the Toll of War on Syrian Children Mark Leon Goldberg March 15, 2016 March 15 is the five year anniversary of the uprising that lead to the Syrian civil war. To commemorate the day, UNICEF released a brutal report about the consequences of the war on Syria's children. And the report contained a deeply disturbing statistic: one ...
James P. Grant Saved Millions upon Millions of Children Around the World. So Why Isn’t He a Household Name? Mark Leon Goldberg November 18, 2015 James P. Grant is not a household name. But he most certainly should be. Grant lead UNICEF from 1979 until his death in 1995, and as Nick Kristof once wrote he “probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined.” He was a pow...
“Trick or Treat for UNICEF” Turns 65 Mark Leon Goldberg October 30, 2015 In 1950 a school librarian in Philadelphia named Mary Emma Alison, her husband Clive and their two children started a Halloween tradition that lives on to this day. Here is the official origin story, as told by UNICEF: In late 1949, Mrs. Allison took her thre...
This Woman With Albinism Was Attacked for Her Body Parts Mark Leon Goldberg May 6, 2015 Albinism--the medical condition that results in the lack of pigment in the skin--is particularly prevalent in Tanzania, affecting one in 1,400 people. For comparison, in western countries, about one in 20,000 people live with albinism. This uniquely high pr...
It’s the Anniversary of #BringBackOurGirls. The Girls are Still Gone. Mark Leon Goldberg April 14, 2015 On the one year anniversary of the abductions of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria two international organizations released reports that tell a damning story of Boko Haram's campaign against civilians. In a report titled #BringBackOurChildhood UNICEF ...
Episode 59: Caryl Stern Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2015 Caryl Stern is the president and CEO of the United States Fund for UNICEF. This is the big fundraising arm (think "trick or treat for UNICEF") of one of the most important humanitarian organizations in the world. Caryl Stern's mother escaped the Holocaust a...
This Amazingly Resiliant 13-Year-Old-Girl Escaped Violence in the Central African Republic Mark Leon Goldberg January 13, 2015 This is an impressive story captured by UNICEF.
“For Each Ebola Patient, We Need 150 Liters of Water” Mark Leon Goldberg November 14, 2014 A fascinating peek inside an ebola treatment center
