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A story can certainly paint a thousand words, and here at UNICEF we have been privileged to have worked with some fantastic photographers who have captured all the remarkable work we have been doing over the years. Take a sneak peek at what the Tagd Team get up to when we host conferences, visit schools around the country and of course, when we conduct those all-important field reports from across the globe. Learn about the valuable difference your donations make to the lives of others by exploring these photostories.

    • A young member of UNIPOL, UNICEF UK’s new policy group, explains the rules of ‘Splat’. © UNICEF UK/2010/Alice Bottini-Hall
    • Young Campaigners Weekend
    • In April 2011, UNICEF Tagd organised a weekend of activities for some its young campaigners in Chingford. UNICEF UK’s new policy group UNIPOL, made up of six young people, and students from UNICEF On Campus societies also attended.
    • Young volunteers help out at the UNICEF Tagd stall. © UNICEF UK/2010/Alice Bottini-Hall
    • Tagd at Underage Festival 2010
    • UNICEF Tagd made a splash at Underage Festival promoting our Millennium Development Goals campaign. With help from a team of young volunteers, we talked to punters about why the MDGs are so important and collected over 1500 signatures!
    • The march drew a variety of protestors from different organisations, including political parties such as the Liberal Democrats (above) and charities such as CAFOD, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. Photo: UNICEF UK/2009/Elsa Annushka Nigro.
    • UNICEF gets on The Wave
    • On Saturday 6th December 2009 more than 50,000 colourful demonstrators got on 'The Wave' and took to the streets of London to protest loudly against climate chaos ahead of the make or break COP15 UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen. UNICEF was out in force, our blue colours nicely matching up with the Wave theme.
    • Katie, one of the UK Climate Ambassadors prepares the UK Stall for the opening day of the UNICEF Children's Climate Forum 2009. Photo: UNICEF UK/2009/Rowan Boase
    • Copenhagen Children's Climate Forum
    • In December 2009 UNICEF UK sent four young people to represent the UK in the UNICEF Children's Climate Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here's a selection of pictures featuring our 'Copenhagen 4', Cressie, Graeme, Katie and Luke, from the opening day of the summit.
    • Sonal, Lucia, Owen and Tom at the DECC Question Time event in London on 4 December 2009. Seven young people from UNICEF joined around 60 other young people in questioning the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Milibnad in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate summit. UNICEF UK/2009/Connie Wessels
    • DECC Question Time Debate
    • The Department of Energy and Climate Change hosted an exciting Question Time debate for 80 young people on climate change on December 4th. The audience had the chance to challenge a panel of top-level UK Government Ministers including Ed Miliband.
    • Young people support our climate change campaign at the White Air festival in Brighton. Image: UNICEF UK/2009/Rowan Boase
    • White Air Festival 2009
    • On the weekend of 18th, 19th, 20th September, Team Tagd took ourselves to Brighton Beach for a weekend of Extreme Sports and fab music from the likes of the Doves, Biffy Clyro, British Sea Power and more. See if you can spot yourselves in our very amusing candid cut-outs!
    • Young people loved the Tagd bags at Underage Festival. Photo: UNICEF UK/2009/Jazmin Burgess
    • Tagd Summer Events 2009
    • We took Tagd offline this Summer and into the real world where we met young people up and down the country at the Underage Festival, Global Student Forum, Kent International Jamboree and so many more! See what we got up to in our photostories from this Summer's coolest events!
    • Ruth, 22 from Bolton (on the right). At university Ruth is involved with the student Stop AIDS network. They trained her up as a ‘Global Educator’, teaching 6th formers about the links between HIV and poverty. She absolutely loved it. Ruth got involved with UCAN to carry this work on.
    • Meet UCAN
    • Find out more about UNICEF UK's Youth Campaign Action Network, a group of young volunteers who champion our Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign.
    • This is us embarking upon our adventures, looking only slightly rough and sweaty next to our lovely yellow bus. We travelled to ten projects over three days and learnt a lot about Swaziland and HIV. Photo: UNICEF UK/2008/Connie Wessels
    • HIV in Swaziland
    • Find out about Romy and Rhi's experience in Swaziland in 2008. Romy and Rhi are members of the UNICEF UK Youth Campaign Action Network (UCAN).
    • The UK Junior 8 team, Vision of Hope, arrives at Sapporo airport to begin the Junior 8 Summit.The Summit is held in Chitose on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. The Japanese are very proud to host the J8 Summit, and J8 posters and banners can be seen in many of the streets and buildings. Photo credit: UNICEF UK/Japan2008/Jessica Wright
    • Junior 8 Japan 2008
    • Take a look at what happened at the Junior 8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan in July 2008. See photos, watch videos and meet the J8 team.
    • For Rose (pictured left) the most important global issue is global warming – I feel very strongly that unless this issue is tackled rigorously and soon, there may well not even be a human race to sort out. Photo: UNICEF/Japan2008
    • Meet the 2008 J8 Team
    • Team Vision of Hope won the J8 Summit Competition in 2008. Find out more about the team and what issues world leaders should tackle according to them.
    • Imogen, 16, from London Hi, I’m Imogen, I love swimming, reading, wandering around London with friends and watching my favourite films over and over and over again - I’ve no idea how many times I’ve seen Juno! Photo: UNICEF UK/2006/Hannah Wright
    • Meet the Youth Champions
    • The Youth Champions are a group of young volunteers who work with UNICEF UK to spread the word about children's rights and UNICEF's work.