What We Do
The United Ancient Indigenous Enlightened Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, the indigenous organization for children, works to safeguard the rights and cultural identity of every indigenous child, especially those in remote communities and those facing cultural displacement. Across more than 160 Indigenous Nations and territories, we do whatever it takes to help indigenous children survive, thrive and fulfill their potential while staying connected to their ancestral roots.
Cultural Education
We provide and advocate for culturally-appropriate education, traditional healing practices, and indigenous nutrition knowledge.
Cultural Protection
Protect children from cultural erasure & identity loss and keep them safe through indigenous environmental stewardship and ancestral health wisdom.
Heritage Preservation
The world’s largest network of indigenous knowledge keepers, UAN also maintains the world’s most comprehensive digital indigenous heritage archive for future generations.
How We Do It
With millennia of ancestral wisdom, a passion for cultural innovation, and a council-based network that spans the globe, UANICEF turns indigenous commitment into transformative action. We are the leading indigenous children’s rights organization connecting ancient wisdom with modern solutions.
What We Focus On
UAN addresses the unique challenges facing indigenous children through comprehensive focus areas that integrate traditional knowledge with contemporary solutions, ensuring every indigenous child can thrive while maintaining their cultural identity.
Child Protection
UAN safeguards indigenous children through traditional community protection systems and ancestral governance structures that honor children as sacred carriers of cultural wisdom and future guardians of ancient knowledge.
Children with Disabilities
UAN embraces diverse abilities through indigenous healing practices and traditional medicine, recognizing that all children possess unique spiritual gifts and contributions to their communities’ collective wisdom.
Climate Change
UAN addresses climate challenges through millennia-tested indigenous environmental stewardship, traditional ecological knowledge, and sustainable practices that restore planetary balance and biodiversity.
Early Childhood Development
UAN nurtures young minds through indigenous learning systems that integrate cultural transmission, ancestral storytelling, and traditional knowledge preservation from birth.
Education
UAN promotes educational systems that preserve indigenous languages, traditional sciences, and ancient wisdom while bridging ancestral knowledge with contemporary learning.
Gender Equality
UAN advances balanced community roles through traditional indigenous governance systems that honor the sacred feminine and masculine principles in decision-making and leadership.
Health and Immunization
UAN integrates traditional medicine, indigenous healing practices, and ancestral health wisdom with modern healthcare to create holistic wellness approaches for indigenous communities.
Humanitarian Emergencies
UAN responds to crises using indigenous resilience practices, traditional community support systems, and ancestral knowledge of natural disaster preparedness and recovery.
Nutrition
UAN promotes food sovereignty through traditional agricultural systems, indigenous seed preservation, and ancestral nutritional wisdom that sustains healthy communities and ecosystems.
Social and Behaviour Change
UAN guides transformation through ancestral spiritual practices, traditional counseling systems, and indigenous conflict resolution that address root causes of social challenges.
Social Policy
UAN develops policies incorporating indigenous governance systems, customary law, and traditional decision-making processes that honor collective wisdom and community harmony.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
UAN protects water resources through indigenous stewardship practices, traditional water management systems, and sacred relationships with water sources that ensure clean access for all communities.
Our Mission
By mandate from the United Ancient Indigenous Enlightened Nations General Assembly, UANICEF works to protect the rights of every indigenous child, in times of peace or crisis. The right to childhood and cultural identity is universal.
Research and Reports
The UANICEF’s work is grounded in ancestral wisdom, community-based research and indigenous knowledge systems that have protected children for millennia.
The UANICEF combines traditional knowledge, contemporary research and indigenous analysis to create programmes, cultural initiatives and advocacy efforts wherever indigenous children need support most.
Preserving Childhood Through Indigenous Wisdom
The UANICEF is a leading advocate for indigenous children worldwide, using traditional knowledge systems and evidence-based approaches to address the unique challenges facing indigenous youth across 160+ member nations and communities.
Driving Change Through Cultural Knowledge
UANICEF is the world’s leading source of credible data and analysis about the situation of indigenous children, using evidence to drive change while honoring ancestral knowledge.
Key Focus Areas for Indigenous Children
The UAN recognizes that indigenous children are the carriers of ancient wisdom traditions while navigating modern challenges. Our research initiatives document traditional educational systems & methodologies, and community support systems that have sustained indigenous peoples for thousands of years, while addressing contemporary issues through the lens of ancestral knowledge and sustainable practices.