UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo performs at the Children’s Gathering to celebrate UNICEF’s 60th anniversary, at UNICEF House.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo, accompanied by a guitarist, performs at the Children’s Gathering to celebrate UNICEF’s 60th anniversary. Banners chronicling UNICEF’s work through the decades are behind them.

Angelique Kidjo in Uganda surrounded by a group of children, answers questions from the media at the Agweng camp for people displaced by conflict in the northern Lira District.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo speaks with a pregnant woman outside a health centre at the Barr camp for people displaced by conflict in the northern Lira District of Uganda.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo (centre, left) listens as former child soldiers tell their stories, in the village of Alela in the northern Lira District of Uganda. The children, several of whom were abducted by the LRA, have recently returned home and are participating in a reintegration programme.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo speaks with a pregnant woman outside a health centre at the Barr camp for people displaced by conflict in the northern Lira District of Uganda.

Angelique Kidjo smiles at an infant in the therapeutic feeding centre at Lira Regional Referral Hospital in the city of Lira in northern Uganda. The child’s mother (rear, right) looks on. .

Angelique Kidjo performs at the gala event, ‘An Evening of Remembrance and Hope: Uniting the World Against AIDS’. The event brought together Summit delegates and other dignitaries, UNAIDS and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, celebrities and other guests to remember the 25 million people worldwide who have died of AIDS over the past 25 years.

On 1 June, 2006 (left-right) internationally renowned musicians Wyclef Jean and Angelique Kidjo perform with the African Children’s Choir during the gala event, ‘An Evening of Remembrance and Hope: Uniting the World Against AIDS’. The event brought together Summit delegates and other dignitaries, UNAIDS and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, celebrities and other guests to remember the 25 million people worldwide who have died of AIDS over the past 25 years.

Angelique Kidjo (right) plays with a baby being carried in a sling pouch. She is standing amidst a crowd outside a feeding centre in the Migag area near the town of Wajir in drought-affected North Eastern Province in Kenya.

Angelique Kidjo (centre-right) claps and sings with children and adults in Harare Children’s Hospital in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. The matron of the hospital is beside Ms. Kidjo, at left.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo (centre) visits Kuzivakwashe (left) and Tatenda Suruwo (right) in Harare Children’s Hospital in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Both girls are HIV-positive and are among the few receiving ARV treatment.

Angelique Kidjo speaks with the mother of Simbarashe Tagarira, a toddler who is HIV-positive, in Harare Children’s Hospital in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. The child is also malnourished.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo holds a girl toddler, standing amidst a crowd of children at a UNICEF-assisted paediatric clinic in Githogoro, a slum settlement in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

Angelique Kidjo (right) helps sort food at a feeding centre in the village of Kotoda near the town of Wajir in the drought-affected Wajir District in Kenya.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo sings a song to close a briefing for first spouses on HIV/AIDS and girls’ education at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo participates with small children in a discussion, at the Tesfa Gebrehane (Path of Light) kindergarten in Awassa, Ethiopia.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo holds a painting she has received as a gift, during her visit to the Tesfa Gebrehane (Path of Light) kindergarten, in Awassa, Ethiopia. The painting, done by children at the kindergarten, is of a crying child affected by HIV/AIDS. It carries the message, in Amharic, “Look at me and learn.”

Angelique Kidjo speaks with children at the Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community School in the Rastafarian settlement community in the town of Shashemene, Ethiopia

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo reads with a group of children Ethiopia.

Acclaimed singer and UNICEF Special Representative Angelique Kidjo (left) of Benin, accompanied by a girl dancer, performs at the ‘Celebration of Leadership’ concert at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.