UNICEF Africa Podcast: Recent Episodes
UNICEF Africa
This podcast series highlights the stories of children and young people across Sub-Saharan Africa. UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged youth. Across more than 190 countries and territories, we work for every child in Africa. These are their stories.
A screening questionnaire used by village healthcare workers in rural Uganda is making waves, for all the right reasons. The paper tool is helping health workers and teachers identify children who may have developmental delays. This early identification is key, to getting children the help and rehabilitation they need. UNICEF is working with the Ugandan government and implementing partners to expand this work in more areas. In this episode of the UNICEF Africa Podcast we head to the Mubende district of Uganda, to chat to a family whose child was diagnosed, with the help of the assessment tool.
Social media can tear apart communities. But it can also help build new ones. Kenyan disability rights activist, Unice Mumo, uses online platforms to give a voice to the voiceless. At 26, she's creating an online support system for herself and others. In this episode of the UNICEF Africa Podcast, we hear how social media can be used to raise awareness about the rights of persons with disabilities.
Money. That's the very thing the poor don’t have enough of. But one program is putting cash directly into their pockets. No strings attached. Our producer, Dhashen Moodley, went to Zimbabwe and produced this episode of UNICEF's Kids Dispatches podcast.
Imagine being a kid, who relies on touch to navigate each day. Then comes a global pandemic that forces people apart. This episode, hosted by UNICEF's Nadia Samie-Jacobs, explores how children with disabilities are coping with COVID-19 in Namibia.