X-Nico

unusual facts about Polish Children's Fund


Polish Children's Fund

They are organized by various institutions of the University of Warsaw, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.


Achmat Dangor

Dangor is also an active development professional and has headed up various non-governmental organisations in South Africa, including the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

Badr Airlines

Today, Badr Airlines operates flights on behalf of UN MovCon, WFP, UNICEF, UNOPS, ESS, MSF, FAO and IRC, using aircraft and helicopters covering most areas of Sudan.

Balachandra Rajan

During that period he served on the Indian Delegation to the United Nations, working extensively with UNESCO and UNICEF, and chairing an international anti-malaria effort.

Cambodian Children's Fund

Cambodian Children's Fund (CCF) The CCF was founded in 2003 by Scott Neeson to aid the most impoverished of Cambodia’s children.

Friends of FundeCruz

De la Cruz, who is a UNICEF ambassador, donated about 10% of his salary from Birmingham City.

Hurricane Pauline

The governments of Oaxaca and Guerrero asked UNICEF for assistance, specifically water tanks, water pumps, and construction material.

Irish Children's Fund

The Irish Children's Fund (ICF), which began in 1982, has served over 3,500 Protestant and Catholic boys and girls from Belfast, who experienced the violence of Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant divide.

John J. Byrne

John J. Byrne (1931 – March 7, 2013) was an American longtime insurance industry executive who was CEO of GEICO, White Mountains Insurance Group and Fireman's Fund.

Kieu Chinh

Together with journalist Terry Anderson, she co-founded the Vietnam Children’s Fund, which has built schools in Vietnam attended by more than 12,000 students.

Sirleaf Market Women's Fund

Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a 2008 documentary directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney, told the story of the Liberian market women who were able to triumphantly bring an end to the Liberian civil war.

After peace took hold, in 2005 they turned their hard-won organizational skills to get out the vote for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first woman to be elected president—the granddaughter of a market woman.

The First Liberian Civil War of 1989-1997 and the fighting that renewed soon after (Second Liberian Civil War), lasting until the peace agreement of 2003, affected every area of Liberia, every village and town, and every family.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1286

The resolution strongly condemned the murder of personnel from the United Nations Children's Fund and World Food Programme in Rutana Province in October 1999.

Vietnam Children's Fund

VCF hopes to build one elementary school in each of Vietnam’s provinces and to create enough classroom space to teach 58,000 children—the number of names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.

The Vietnam Children’s Fund was founded in 1993 by the late Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and severely wounded Marine.


see also