Lyrics

Another time, Another place

I used to keep you in my arms
Under the stars
Enjoying your kisses

I used to touch you as you like it
And turning me on
Sharing strong feelings

Sometimes we got so complicated
What's the reason
What's the reason

When I woke up this morning
You were just gone
I’ve been alone

Another time, another place
I just wanna hear you say
That was about love
About love
About love!

Another time, another place
I just wanna hear you say
That was about love
About love
About love

I ask you please don’t let me down
Just answer my calls
I will never hurt you
I will never hurt you

I used to touch you as you like it
And turning me on
Sharing strong feelings

Sometimes we got so complicated
What's the reason
What's the reason

When I woke up this morning
You were just gone
I’ve been alone

Another time, another place
I just wanna hear you say
That was about love
About love
About love

Another time, another place
I just wanna hear you say
That was about love
About love
About love

I'm crying, you're lying
I don't trust your love anymore

I'm trying, don't cry when
I see you going through the door

Another time, another place
I just wanna hear you say
That's about love
About love
About love

Another time, another place
I just wanna hear you say
That's about love
About love
About love

The Secret and Inspiration

I was living in a campervan parked on the banks of the Tagus River... Yes! It was me, Daniel, a Brazilian guy lost in Europe, when I met Jennifer. Lisbon had that golden late afternoon light that seems to promise new beginnings, and I desperately needed one. My marriage had ended after a betrayal that left me more empty than furious.

I slept to the distant sound of trams climbing the hills and spent my days in a coworking space at LX Factory, developing a fintech company that I believed would change my life. Maybe I was trying to prove to myself that I was still capable of building something that wouldn't fall apart.

Jennifer appeared on a dating app, but the connection was too immediate to fit on a screen. American, from Oakland, belly dancer, digital entrepreneur. She talked about freedom like she talks about breathing. Our first date was at a viewpoint overlooking the river. The second already felt like the tenth.

Before I knew it, she was traveling with me through Europe in the van—we slept under the Andalusian sky, crossed French villages where time seemed to stand still, shared strong coffees in Italy. The road brought us together with an almost irresponsible intensity. We fell in love like someone running without looking back.

In November 2019, I accepted an invitation to spend some time in California. Oakland welcomed me with its raw energy, vibrant graffiti, and a pulsating art scene. A few kilometers away, San Francisco emerged with its fog enveloping the Golden Gate like a mystical veil.

I walked through the sloping neighborhoods, saw the cable cars crossing the steep streets, and felt like I was at the epicenter of the world. I took my fintech company to Silicon Valley.

I entered glass buildings where young people in sneakers and backpacks were deciding the future of the global economy. I visited the headquarters of Big Tech companies that I only knew from documentaries. I held meetings, presented pitch decks, and heard "this is promising" more times than I could count.

Meanwhile, Jennifer was preparing for Bali. March 2020. She wanted to record a new online course, using temples, rice paddies, and the Ubud sunset as a backdrop for her personal brand.

She talked about expansion, scale, exponential growth. I talked about impact, financial inclusion, how technology could reach those who never had access to anything. When the investment proposal came, with numbers that finally brought stability, something inside me hesitated.

Because there was something else silently growing inside me.

I always carried my black electric guitar with me, even disassembled on airplanes, separated into 2 backpacks, a modified Ibanez RG 500, scalloped neck. Between spreadsheets, I thought about the children I met years before in São Paulo, in neighborhoods where music could be the only possible refuge. The idea started as a sketch: using music to rebuild self-esteem, create belonging, teach that each child has something unique to offer the world.

Later it would get a name — You Rock — but at that moment it was just a persistent flame asking for space.

I agreed to go to Bali with Jennifer. Maybe I was still running away. Maybe I was still afraid of being alone again. In Ubud, the air smelled of incense and wet earth. The days were hot, full of foreigners seeking enlightenment and green smoothies. While she filmed videos among temples and danced at sunset, I received formal confirmation of the investment. Enough money to change my standard of living. Security. Recognition.

But I knew that if I accepted, I wouldn't have time for the social project. Fintech would demand everything. The market demands everything.

I spent an entire night awake listening to the distant sounds of the jungle. For the first time, I understood that success and purpose don't always go hand in hand. For the first time, the betrayal I had suffered in Lisbon made sense from another perspective: I had been abandoned, but I had also abandoned parts of myself throughout my life to fit into the expectations of others.

The next morning, I refused the investment.

Jennifer didn't understand. For her, it was irrational to give up stability in an uncertain world. We argued for the first time—and the last. She wanted financial growth, visibility, global scale. I wanted meaning. There were no dramatic shouts, just a dense silence between two incompatible visions of the future. A few days later, I woke up and she was no longer there. The suitcases were gone. No note.

I found myself alone on the other side of the world with a guitar, a computer, and some clothes folded in a backpack. Curiously, I didn't feel despair. I felt space.

I started designing what would become You Rock. I connected with communities, made calls with friends in Brazil and Portugal, wrote proposals, recorded simple videos explaining the idea. Music was once again the center, not the backdrop. Each chord seemed to affirm that I was finally aligned with myself.

Sometimes I think of Jennifer when I see pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge shrouded in fog or when I remember the smell of coffee in Oakland on cold mornings. What we experienced was real. Intense. Necessary. But some people come into our lives not to stay—but to push us in the direction we're afraid to go.

In Bali, sitting in a bamboo café with my laptop open and my guitar leaning against the wall, I realized I wasn't lost. I was free. For the first time, I wasn't chasing validation, money, or approval. I was building something that made sense to me.

The universe didn't give me ready-made answers. It gave me a blank page.

And this time, I chose to write my own story.

England - Performance

Each country profile presents the most recent data available on a range of indicators relating to the well-being of women and children. Each country profile page is composed of data from multiple sources, depending on the indicator domain. For example, child mortality rates come from the most recent data produced by the UNICEF-led Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME).

SDG indicators related to children

The 2030 Agenda includes 17 Global Goals addressing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Attached to the Goals are 169 concrete targets measured by 232 specific indicators.

To map and monitor how ambitious and realistic countries’ targets are, UNICEF has created quantifiable country-level benchmarks for child-related indicators for which data are available to measure and monitor child rights on a common scale.

Below is a snapshot of the country’s performance against the 45 child-related SDG indicators, grouping results into five areas of child well-being to provide an overall assessment of how children are doing. Countries are assessed using global and national targets. The analysis provides valuable insights into both historical progress—recognizing the results delivered by countries in the recent past—and how much additional effort may be needed to achieve the child-related SDG targets. This approach provides a framework for assessing ambition as well as the scale of action needed to achieve it.