We are proud to count Kiwis among UNICEF staff working to improve children's lives in situations of extreme hardship and danger.

A day at the office can mean many different things to UNICEF staff.  It could mean talking with a 14-year-old former child soldier about their experiences, or finding funding for vital supplies for children during an emergency, or dedicating each day to efforts to eradicate a killer disease.

It's not all drama, of course. Much of the organisation's work is all but invisible: securing funding for HIV/AIDS or immunisation programmes, for example, or chipping away at political inertia, or setting up structures for effective emergency response. And there's the vital task of building alliances with local communities, helping them to ensure the education, protection and wellbeing of their own children.

These profiles of NZer's in the field aim to give you an insight into the way the organisation works, day by day, to improve the lives of individual children around the world.