For Every Child: A UNICEF Canada podcast

A holiday special episode of the For Every Child podcast featuring a conversation between UNICEF Canada ambassadors and actors Simu Liu and Saara Chaudry about what inspires them to advocate for child rights and their hopes for children in 2024.  

Host: Saara Chaudry

Guest:

Simu Liu, Actor and UNICEF Canada Ambassador

Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyadarshini Mitra

Composed and mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

Host Saara Chaudry speaks to Dr. Marcia Brophy, one of UNICEF's global mental health and psychosocial advisors, on the impact of conflict on child and adolescent mental health - and the support and services needed. 

Host: Saara Chaudry

Guests: 

Dr. Marcia Brophy, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) & Innovation Specialist, UNICEF

Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyadarshini Mitra

Composed and mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

From Afghan dreamer to achiever, Somaya Faruqi, captain of the Afghan Girls Robotics team talks about education and empowerment. Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait, takes us into the world of delivering education to children living in crisis settings. And Sam, a young teacher from Ghana talks about how he ensures all the children in his primary school class are getting a quality education.

Host: Saara Chaudry

Guests: 

Somaya Faruqi, Captain of the Afghan Girls Robotics team

Sam, school teacher in Anyima, Ghana 

Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director, Education Cannot Wait 

Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyadarshini Mitra

Composed and mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

Additional music:  (Ambient) Love (CC BY) by Kirk Osamayo and Blue Skies by HoliznaCC0 c/o Free Music Archive

From autonomous airships to open-source AI mapping hard-to-reach areas and a compression garment developed by NASA saving the lives of thousands of mothers worldwide - what role does innovation play at an organization like UNICEF?

In this episode we speak to entrepreneurs and innovators - all working to make a better world for children. 

Host: Saara Chaudry

Guests: 

Bo Percival, Senior Advisor, Innovation, UNICEF

Stephani Sy, Founder, Thinking Machines

Spencer Horner, founder & CEO, Cloudline

Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyadarshini Mitra

Composed and mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

It’s not an easy time to be a child or young person. In this episode of the For Every Child podcast, we look at how mental health support differs in different contexts and countries, what tools and support we can provide young people and children to help them with their mental health and what UNICEF is doing to ensure young people are being heard when it comes to understanding their needs.

It’s 2023 and 1 in 5 children is still not protected against vaccine preventable diseases, according to UNICEF’s latest State of the World’s Children report. In this episode of the For Every Child podcast, we mark World Immunization Week, and look at what it would take to build back immunity following the pandemic – globally and in Canada. Host: Saara Chaudry Guests: Lily Caprani, Head of Global Advocacy (Health, Nutrition, Climate), UNICEF Dr. Vinita Dubey, Associate Medical Officer of Health at Toronto Public Health Producer: Sara Faruqi  Composed and mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

Eights years into the conflict in Yemen and many children have known nothing but war in their lives. Peter Hawkins, UNICEF’s representative in Yemen speaks about what is being done to build resilience in communities and what the current challenges are in terms of education and nutrition.

Host: Saara Chaudry, UNICEF Canada Ambassador 

Guests:

Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative, Yemen

Waleed Al- Ahdal, Al-jufainah IDP camp resident, Yemen

Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyodarshini Mitra

Composed and Mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

In this episode of the podcast we hear from youth impacted by the war in Ukraine and the earthquake in Syria and Türkiye, and learn about the work UNICEF is doing to support those suffering due to these crises.

Host: Saara Chaudry, UNICEF Canada Ambassador 

Guests: 

There are more children in school than out of school today. Yet, millions of them are unable to comprehend simple text. In this episode we explore this learning gap and look at what are the challenges when it comes to getting an education - in the classroom and in getting children to the classrooms. Host: Saara Chaudry, UNICEF Canada Ambassador Guests: Ree-Anna Robinson, UNICEF Jamaica Youth Advocate Robert Jenkins: Director, Global Director, Education & Adolescent Development, UNICEF Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyadarshini Mitra Composed and Mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

In this first episode of a new season, UNICEF Canada President and CEO David Morley hands over to our new host, UNICEF Canada ambassador Saara Chaudry.

Join Saara as she looks back at 2022, exploring the crises in Ukraine, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. She speaks to UNICEF experts on how these crises have impacted children and learns what hopes they have for the coming year.  

Host: Saara Chaudry, UNICEF Canada Ambassador 

Guests: 

Salam Al-Janabi, Communications Specialist, UNICEF Afghanistan  

Kenan Madi, Emergency Manager, UNICEF Ukraine 

Rania Dagash, Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF 

Producers: Sara Faruqi and Priyadarshini Mitra 

Composed and Mixed by: Chandra Bulucon  

In this episode we’ll explore why children are backsliding on regular immunizations, what the dire consequences could be and how you can make a difference.

Just in time for Halloween, this episode, hosted by a child, is designed to get kids into giving. Gather your family and listen to two tales that will guide your children, through storytelling, to a powerful message: they can make a difference. 

Chandra Bulucon - Sound Design and Mix

Music:

Serge Quadrado - Little Mozart

Siddhartha Corsus - The Moon Lodge

Monolog Rockstars - Yvette

Donnie Ozone - Return of the Gucci Ghost

Drakensson - Do Robots Get Bored by Drakensson

Andrewkn - Parallel Universe

Karma-Ron (Byngsies) -  Pad Light Waves Pretty

Code_Box - Full of Energy

Canadians are heading to the polls in a historic federal election amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore what this election means for children here at home and internationally while empowering you to raise your voice for children and youth by getting involved in the #VoteforEveryChild campaign. 

Composed and Mixed by Chandra Bulucon, produced by Victoria Ptashnick, hosted by David Morley, UNICEF Canada President & CEO.

David Morley has a conversation with a university professor and expert on human happiness about the link between giving and increased joy.

Composed and Mixed by Chandra Bulucon, produced by Victoria Ptashnick, hosted by David Morley, UNICEF Canada President & CEO.

The pandemic has interrupted the education of children everywhere. In this episode, we’ll explore the consequences of lost learning and examine why certain groups, such as refugee girls, are at risk of losing more than just an education. Identify the problems and find solutions for what can be done to ensure children everywhere get a chance at receiving quality education.

Producers: Victoria Ptashnick, Priyadarshini Mitra Composed and Mixed by: Chandra Bulucon Additional music by Chad Crouch, "Starlight", https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Drifter 

The journey of motherhood can simultaneously be full of joy but also challenges, and COVID-19 has created unique challenges for mother's around the world. Former Canadian footballer and UNICEF Canada Ambassador Karina LeBlanc joins us to tell her powerful story of becoming a mother during the pandemic. Then we'll take you to India, to learn more about the devastating new wave of COVID-19 and what UNICEF is doing to support children and families.

Producers: Priyadarshini Mitra, Victoria Ptashnick 

Composed and Mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

A behind the scenes look at what goes into ensuring COVID-19 vaccines reach countries around the world. We will bring you into the world’s largest humanitarian warehouse in Denmark. You’ll learn why the UNICEF Supply Division warehouse is key our work supporting the COVAX Facility through an interview with Eva Kadilli, UNICEF’s Director of Supply Division. Then we’ll hear from one of our key COVAX partners, Gavi, about what goes into making a historic vaccination effort of this scale successful, through an interview with Dr. Anuradha Gupta, the Deputy CEO of Gavi.

Producers: Victoria Ptashnick, Priyadarshini Mitra

Composed and Mixed by: Chandra Bulucon

In a month filled with historic moments, UNICEF has helped deliver the first round of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility in countries around the world. We will bring you into all the action, from Côte d'Ivoire to Nepal and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to hear from those who are on the ground, supporting and following the developments around these COVID-19 vaccine deliveries.

Producers: Priyadarshini Mitra, Victoria Ptashnick

Sound Mix: Chandra Bulucon

Original Music: Chandra Bulucon

The COVID-19 vaccine roll out has begun in Canada – and it is having to overcome some unique challenges. In this episode we hear two powerful women speak about the problems and possible solutions to vaccine access in the Canada's North, as well as efforts needed to build public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

Producers: Priyadarshini Mitra, Victoria Ptashnick

Sound Mix: Chandra Bulucon

Original Music and Music Arrangement: Chandra Bulucon

As we begin a new year with new hope and optimism, listen in on children asking us tough questions about UNICEF’s role in COVID-19 vaccine distribution. In this episode we also learn about the impact of pandemic related interruptions on children’s education and how vaccination will play a role in ensuring that learning can resume.

Producers: Priyadarshini Mitra, Victoria Ptashnick

Sound Mix: Chandra Bulucon

Original Music: Chandra Bulucon

2020 has been a challenging year. But through difficulty we have learned we are more resilient than we thought possible. That resilience allowed UNICEF to continue to make strides in protecting every child’s right to a childhood – despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode we’ll take you on a journey with us to explore the roadblocks and achievements at a global level and we’ll tell you more about how we overcame challenges here in Canada.

Producers: Victoria Ptashnick, Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix: Chandra Bulucon

Original Music: Chad Crouch, Chandra Bulucon

Children and young people have a unique ability to reimagine a more equal, just and sustainable world. This World Children’s Day, we hear from young citizens about what they hope to see in a post-COVID-19 world. UNICEF Canada Ambassador, Actor Simu Liu joins us to talk about his support for UNICEF and we hear about UNICEF's role in the incredible global effort towards ensuring fair and equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine.

Producers: Victoria Ptashnick, Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix and Original Music / Arrangement : Chandra Bulucon

The education of almost 91% of the world's children has been affected by school closures due to COVID-19. As school doors start to reopen, what does it look like for students? Hear how the education of Canada’s children has been impacted by the pandemic, and travel with us to Viet Nam to find out about their experience with back to school.

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

Nearly a quarter of the world’s children live in conflict or disaster-stricken countries. COVID-19 has been an added blow to their already uncertain futures. Travel with us to Yemen to learn about the double burden that COVID-19 has placed on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Then to the Pacific Islands, to find out what happens when a cyclone strikes during the pandemic.

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

As wealthy nations struggle with the impact of COVID-19, what is happening in countries already facing challenges related to a lack of healthcare, nutrition and education, where physical distancing, sanitation and hygiene are not possible in order to flatten the curve? Travel with us to Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, Uganda and Brazil for an inside look on how COVID-19 is affecting these countries and the potential long term impacts on children, if we don't act now. 

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

As the world grapples with the novel coronavirus pandemic, many essential health services have been disrupted. Immunization is one of them. Join experts as they highlight that millions of children are missing out on vaccines and how this could trigger outbreaks of infections and child death due to deadly vaccine preventable diseases.

GuestsDr. Natasha Crowcroft, Director, Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of Toronto

Dr. Robin Nandy, Principal Adviser and Chief of Immunization, UNICEF

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

While the world today is doing better at ensuring a more gender equality society, women and girls still face many challenges. This International Women’s Day, hear the stories of strong Canadian women from different walks of life, who have made their mark in changing the world they were born into.

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

Children today are facing a learning crisis. Although more children than ever are enrolled in school, far too many are not learning. In this episode we travel to Ghana, Uganda, and Mongolia to hear about how UNICEF is bridging this gap by increasing access to quality primary and secondary education.

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

Discover how UNICEF responds to prolonged humanitarian crises and the reality children face growing up in refugee camps.

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

Discover how UNICEF keeps children safe when disasters strike without warning, and hear from young people on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

Discover what matters to Canadian youth in the upcoming federal election, and find out why GFORCE are UNICEF Canada’s new Halloween Heroes.

Sound Mix Chandra Bulucon

Original Music / Arrangement Chandra Bulucon

Producer Priyadarshini Mitra

Witness an emotional family reunification and learn about the difficult work that UNICEF does to reunite families that have been separated by conflict or natural disasters. 

Producer Victoria Ptashnick

Travel with us to Yemen, where we'll tell you a harrowing tale of how UNICEF managed to temporarily pause a war to vaccinate children. Learn how UNICEF gets vaccines to children in some of the most remote places in the world and come with us into a Rohingya refugee camp where you'll hear how vaccinations are saving lives.

Producer

Victoria Ptashnick

High winds and massive flooding from Tropical Cyclone Idai have affected more than 3 million people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi –half of them are children. We bring you to the ground in Mozambique to give you an exclusive update on what UNICEF is doing to help the children and families affected. 

Meet a few female superheroes come to life and learn how they’re improving the world for women and girls.

Producer Victoria Ptashnick

Around the world 7,000 newborn babies will not survive their first day. Why?

In this episode we'll answer that question and bring you into UNICEF's fight for survival of the world's youngest citizens.

 Donate to save children's lives today: https://secure.unicef.ca/page/31858/donate/1 

ProducerVictoria Ptashnick

In this episode you'll travel with us to Lebanon, South Africa and Uganda as we take a look at the importance of education for children, particularly girls; and children who have been uprooted from their homes due to conflict. 

ProducerVictoria Ptashnick