Malvikha Manoj (she/her)

"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." - Arundathi Roy

Like Oh my god dude my frontal lobe has fully delveloped

Against all odds, @UNICEF teams are restoring learning across the #GazaStrip. At Al Neel school, 1,850 #children are back in class despite severe shortages of supplies & furniture. 150+ temporary learning spaces supported so far, working to reach 300,000 children.

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Fatima, 12, takes us inside what remains of her home and neighbourhood in Gaza. Through her eyes, we see what war means for children: disrupted lives, lost spaces, and a childhood shaped by conflict. Yet her voice remains strong, inviting us not only to witness loss, but to see resilience and fragile hope.

The world that comes next is a direct consequence of what we tolerate now.

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Lebanon is witnessing a displacement crisis of staggering proportions. In just 3 weeks, more than 370,000 children in Lebanon have been forced from their homes — that’s an average of 19,000 girls and boys being uprooted by Israeli air strikes each day, according to UNICEF

Before break, a student pulled me aside and told me through tears she was unprepared to take the midterm because her whole family was in Southern Lebanon and she was making herself sick worrying about them being bombed. The cruelty knows no bounds.

These are the real voices of children calling the Iranian Red Crescent Emotional Support Centre. A work by Hesam Eslami

Most of us want to live in peace, yet we commit a fundamental error: we believe our personal peace can exist separately from the peace of others. This illusion is the root of the problem. When we witness injustice happening to others and choose silence, we think we have "chosen peace." In reality, we have chosen nothing at all; we have simply avoided making a choice. Wars do not disappear because we turn our backs on them; they merely move from one place to another, from Africa to Europe, from Europe to the Middle East, and tomorrow they will knock on a new door. Neutrality in the face of injustice is not peace; it is merely postponing war. The coward does not remain simply afraid; he begins to justify his fear until it becomes a principle by which he lives. He convinces himself that submission is wisdom and that surrendering his rights is a reasonable price for tranquility. Then he goes further: he starts condemning anyone who refuses to kneel as he does, labeling them an "enemy of peace" because they would not accept humiliation. The overwhelming majority of people are afraid to defend what is right, while the criminal minority has become bold in committing injustice. Why? Because they have realized that no one will hold them accountable. The cowardice of the majority has granted them an open license. True peace requires us to understand a simple truth: either everyone lives in peace, or no one truly lives in peace. Everything else is just a temporary truce in which we await our turn.

This teenage artist in Gaza converted her tent into an art gallery.

excerpt from rachel corrie’s letter to her mother, written three weeks before she was killed

Here's what a few hours in the life of Lebanon's National Lifeline for Suicide Prevention (1564) sound like during #war time: - A 23-year-old displaced mother from South Lebanon (Khyem) calling from inside a car in Saida (now known as the transit city) - where she is living with her 3 young children because shelters are full. - An 88-year-old man displaced from Southern #Beirut calling to ask for basic assistance - A young man calling from Southern Beirut, currently under attack, calling because he and his mother had nowhere safe to go. - Another caller described feeling “مخنوق” — suffocated by the density, the noise, the uncertainty created by war. And in the middle of all of this: - A 16-year-old girl who attempted suicide - A 23-year-old struggling with addiction after a suicide attempt yesterday - A mother with cancer caring for a child with epilepsy while seeking help for her suicidal daughter - A man who was about to end his life with shattered glass before picking up the phone This is the daily reality of answering Lebanon’s National Lifeline (1564), where every call reflects the collision of our crises: war, displacement, poverty, chronic illness, addiction, and the silent toll on mental health. In contexts like #Lebanon, a crisis hotline is much more than an emotional support line. It becomes a first point of access to the entire health and social protection system. In a single shift today, our team provided: - suicide intervention and safety planning - emotional support during acute distress - referrals for psychiatric care and medication - shelter and humanitarian assistance referrals - support for displaced families - guidance for parents responding to suicide attempts - connection to emergency services and NGOs Behind each call is a trained responder, a volunteer, holding space for someone who may have nowhere else to turn, while silently living many of the same struggles themselves. In times of war, mental health emergencies do not pause. They multiply, and set the stage for the long term psychological consequences that follow conflict. Lebanon’s National Lifeline continues to operate 24/7, responding to hundreds of calls each month from people facing the most difficult moments of their lives. Every call our volunteers answer, is a proof of why this Lifeline is essential to our national infrastructure, and must be protected and sustained.

Children in Gaza have endured - and continue to endure - brutal violations of their basic rights: to life, education, and health. Amid the coverage of the tragic deaths, injuries, losses and suffering, what has been less visible is something else equally important: what they want, in their own voices. UNICEF and partners engaged over 1600 children in Gaza to understand this. Their answers were clear: safety, shelter, school, play, hospitals. Listening to children is imperative - the Gaza they want is the Gaza they have the right to grow up in.

I don’t think anyone will ever be able to fully comprehend the extent of intergenerational trauma that is being created right now as we speak. This will be a stain on the history of humanity forever.

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'Not only should people watch the film so that Hind’s voice is not forgotten, but to also remember the other 20,000 children that have died during the conflict. This is their story as well as hers,' the artists behind the portrait, A Letter From Lucy, said.

🇱🇧“There’s some happiness in life, and some unhappiness. That’s life, you can neither tell it ‘no’ nor ‘yes’. Life has its own will.” In Beirut, a young boy named Ziad, displaced from the southern Lebanese town of Al-Khiam after Israeli occupation airstrikes, reflects on life with striking composure. The child arrived in the city only four days earlier and now sleeps wherever space can be found while aid groups bring food to displaced families. Despite still attending school, he says he also works as a car mechanic, learning the trade at a young age. Ziad shows an injury to his ear from a bombing that struck as his family was preparing to leave their shop, recalling how the blast threw him through the air before he realized he had been wounded. mohamad_kamaleldin (IG)

“No, it’s not about the rising price of oil. It’s about children being killed.” Commenting on the killing of 168 girls at a school in Iran, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said he believes the killing of children in Iran, Gaza, Sudan and other war zones has become “background noise” that no longer “dominates the news”