When disasters strike, children bear an excessive share of its devastating effect. Along with women, children are 14 times more likely to die than men in case of disasters. In the next decade, it is estimated that approximately 175 million...

This is the story of Ararat, a 16-year-old teenager. He loves making crafts, painting, puzzling, playing sports, and helping his little sister with her homework. He goes to school in the morning with a tutor. In the afternoon he comes to an...

Inclusive education was a hot topic in Armenia this summer. The current reform will ensure that all Armenian schools become inclusive in the next decade. There are 181 inclusive schools currently, open for all children with no distinction; 42 of...

It has been four years since its inception that UNICEF supports the junior version of TEDx in Armenia. This collaboration has two main goals - make children’s voices heard by using innovative tools and bring together children and...

By Onnik Krikorian /UNICEF ArmeniaAny visitor to School No. 43 in the Armenian capital might easily mistake Veronica Seropyan for a teacher. Yet, standing in front of thirteen pupils aged between fourteen and sixteen, there is something different...

By Onnik Krikorian/UNICEF ArmeniaSixteen years after the 1988 earthquake that devastated Armenia's second largest city, Vartouhi Petrosian lives in one of the several hundred domiks (temporary metal containers) that make up the urban landscape of...

By Onnik Krikorian/UNICEF Armenia At the age of fourteen, Gor Baghdasarian won the first-ever One-Minute Video Junior Award organized by UNICEF's Young People's Media Network, the Sandberg Institute and the European Cultural Foundation. Gor is a...

By Onnik Krikorian/UNICEF Armenia Eighteen days after his birth, Hovik was breathing so rapidly that his alarmed mother rushed to get medical attention. With a temperature of 38.5 degrees centigrade, the doctor diagnosed pneumonia. Hovik, now two...

Onnik Krikorian /UNICEF ArmeniaYEREVAN, Armenia – Mane Tonoyan might seem a little too young to concern herself with the problem of violence against children in Armenia but this 16-year old is somehow "different." A member of the Manana...

UNICEF helps Armenia reform juvenile justice administration UNICEF Armenia/Onnik Krikorian ABOVIAN, Armenia -- Twenty minutes outside of Yerevan in a sprawling complex of buildings that even accommodates llamas, pigs, peacocks, and tropical...

By UNICEF Armenia/Marianna Grigoryan Yura’s eyes are swollen and red. His body and face are bruised. He is 13. But these are not the marks of childhood games or playground scrambles. Since he was 8, games, carefree days, school and textbooks...

By UNICEF Armenia/Marianna GrigoryanWhen 12-year-old Gevorg was only a baby, his mother noticed that the boy’s movements differed from other children, so she decided to consult a doctor. She was told the boy had infantile cerebral stroke...