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13 unusual facts about UNICEF


Break Point

When they talk, she tells her mother that she doesn't want to play tennis anymore, because she wants to pass A-levels, study at university and work for UNICEF.

Carlos Pavón

He was selected by UNICEF to for their campaign to prevent violence against women.

Expanded Program on Immunization

The GAVI brought together a grand coalition, including the UN agencies and institutions (WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank), public health institutes, donor and implementing countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, the vaccine industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and many more.

FC Talanta

Since then, they have moved to their current location in Karen and, in conjunction with UNICEF, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is working hard to get the team a permanent home ground.

In addition, UNICEF has allocated a full-time technical advisor to the project, Jonathan Coles, a professional football coach and administrator.

Frog Design Inc.

More recently, frog has worked for clients such as GE, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, Lufthansa, HP, and UNICEF.

Hurricane Pauline

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

KHL Medveščak Zagreb

On 24 August 2010, KHL Medveščak formed an official partnership with UNICEF, becoming the first and only European hockey team to cooperate with UNICEF, joining prestigious sporting clubs FC Barcelona, Manchester United F.C. and Boca Juniors from Argentina.

Reynaldo Martorell

He is also a director of the International Nutrition Foundation, vice president of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation and an advisor to UNICEF, the World Food Program, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.

Ritam Nereda

Before the album release, the German authorities took over the album recordings, claiming that the label was breaking the economic sanctions imposed to Yugoslavia by the United Nations, but, after a compromise, made with the help of UNICEF, the album release was allowed.

Roberto Palacios

He frequently works with UNICEF to help feed the poor children of Africa, and sometimes even by flying over and donating football gear and accessories.

Rotary Foundation

For example, National PolioPlus Committee chairs or a major partner agency, such as the World Health Organization or UNICEF may apply for these funds.

Seeds of Hope Publishers

A special tenth anniversary issue, produced in partnership with UNICEF, on Child Survival took the staff to West Africa, Brazil and Indonesia in 1987.


Ajit Gupta

In 2003, Gupta established a philanthropy program for Speedera called "Giving Back", which provided free Internet infrastructure services to non-profit organizations including Unicef.org, Goodwill Industries International, Autism.org, and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Alexander Chen

Chen's works of art have been collected or licensed by many individuals companies and charities including Northwest Airlines, UNICEF and various art trade magazines.

Alison Lawton

Lawton also produced a 25-minute educational documentary for UNICEF; Hope in the Time of AIDS featured Stephen Lewis and was narrated by Pierce Brosnan.

After a trip to Uganda she struggled with how to properly publicize the plight of the Acholi children in Uganda and consulted with former President Bill Clinton, whom she met while touring Africa with UNICEF and the Clinton Foundation.

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.

Bandarban District

Contemporary history of Bandarban has not been a happy one, despite much development initiatives taken by church organizations and UN agencies like UNICEF, UNDP and UNFPA as well as Bangladesh Army present in large numbers here.

Basil Hetzel

This was part of the stimulus for the creation of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders association, which is funded by various government, non-government and community organisations including the United Nations, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.

Cindy Jefferies

She also contributes to titles published for charity, including Lines in the Sand (2003, edited by Mary Hoffman) — a response to the allied invasion of Iraq, with all funds raised donated to UNICEF in Iraq.

Country Development Unit

Projects have been implemented with the collaboration of donors such as UNHCR, UNICEF, UNOPS, ADB, CIDA, CARE, Hummer Forum, IRC, JEN LBG/USAID and ICR.

Donka Hospital

The actress Mia Farrow, who serves as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, visited the hospital in May 2010.

Drink 1, Give 10

Volvic named actress Kim Raver as spokesperson for the "Drink 1, Give 10" campaign to benefit UNICEF in North America.

East Bardera Mothers and Children's Hospital

UN agencies such as WHO, UNICEF and other international NGOs such MSF have supported the health-care services which are carried out in Bardera District.

Ecological sanitation

The dissemination programme of ecological dry toilets for Hsinchu County, Guangxi province, one of the poorest provinces in China, started in 1997 with support of UNICEF, SIDA and the Red Cross and has been expanded to 17 provinces until the year 2003.

Erica Kochi

Erica Kochi, (born 1979, in Sendai, Japan) is a humanitarian and a technologist who Co-Leads UNICEF's Innovation Unit, together with Christopher Fabian.

Friends of FundeCruz

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

Futures Without Violence

In 2007, Futures Without Violence and UNICEF partnered to develop and distribute an International Coaches Manual that includes quotes and endorsement from stars such as David Beckham, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Thierry Henry.

Human trafficking in Guinea-Bissau

UNICEF estimates that 200 children are taken from Guinea-Bissau each month for this purpose, and in 2008 a study found that 30 percent of the 8,000 religious students begging on the streets of Dakar are from Guinea-Bissau.

Jamaica coalition

The Jamaica Coalition on the Rights of the Child, a UNICEF sponsored program in Jamaica for protection of children's rights.

James Fraser Mustard

Mustard was involved with governments in Canada, Australia, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNICEF and the Aga Khan University in Pakistan in emphasizing the enormous importance to society of early childhood development.

Jonas Sima

Recent productions include Filmaren i Storskogen (2009); Inget jävla joll! (2010); and Lisbet (2011), a conversation with Lisbet Palme, widow of assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and now a spokesperson for UNICEF and a member of the OAU team which investigated the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Justgiving

In 2010 it was reported that Charlie Simpson, aged 7, raised over £210,000 (£145,000 in the first 48 hours) via his JustGiving page for the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief programme by UNICEF.

Kathryn Selby

She performed at the United Nations General Assembly in an Australian Government sponsored concert in aid of UNICEF, in association with Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge.

Katrina Legarda

Under the auspices of the UNICEF, PLAN International, the British Embassy (Manila) and UNIFEM, she trains judges, prosecutors, social workers and police personnel around the country (as well as in Vientiane, Lao PDR, Goa, India and Lahore, Pakistan) on the investigation of crimes involving women and children.

Khao-I-Dang

The most enduring refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border, it was established in late 1979 and administered by the Thai Ministry of the Interior and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -- unlike other camps on the border, which were administered by a coalition made up of UNICEF, the World Food Program, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (briefly) and, after 1982, the United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO).

Laura Marano

In August 2013, Marano has been named the 2013 UNICEF's Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Ambassador, which encouraged children to raise money on Halloween to help children around the world.

Lisa Singh

Singh convenes the cross-party Parliamentary Group on Asbestos Related Disease (PGARD) and the Parliamentary Friends of UNICEF.

Maria Armanda

The song was chosen to represent Portugal, in Bologna, in the 1980 edition of the Zecchino d'Oro, a festival of little known songs with profits going to the well-known charity UNICEF, with Armanda Maria emerging victorious with a song entitled "Ho visto un rospo".

National Disaster Management Organization

NADMO received support from other agencies such as the Ghana Refugee Board, the Catholic Secretariat, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF, UN Population Fund, and other NGOs for the provision of humanitarian services to potential asylum seekers.

Rajchman

Ludwik Rajchman Polish bacteriologist and one of the founders of UNICEF

Stichting INGKA Foundation

In 2011, the foundation reportedly donated 65 million euros; however, in that year plans were announced to increase the contributions to about 100 million euros per year, with 40 million euros over three years going to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya—the rest would be split between UN agencies such as UNICEF, UNHCR and UNDP, and Save the Children.

Suzanne Brøgger

Brøgger grew up in Denmark until she was fourteen, after that she moved abroad with her mother and her stepfather Svend Brøgger, who worked for UNICEF and was stationed in Colombo, Sri Lanka and later in Bangkok, Thailand.

Svetla Vassileva

Co-author of "Concept for the development of public preschool education in Bulgaria", "Concept for the socialization of socially disadvantaged Romani children” (under the auspices of UNICEF), "White Paper on Pravets" (2010) and the book "Pravets.

Teen Second Life

In the Fall of 2006, it partnered with UNICEF to host the World Fit For Children Festival, and invited media scholar Henry Jenkins to give a lecture/dance party where he spoke about media and learning.

Terese Capucilli

Capucilli was invited by Vanessa Redgrave to perform in UNICEF’s The Return festival in art-starved Pristina, Kosovo, in 1999.

The Angel Network

Among its affiliates were the Crisis Fund, a funding arm for The Threshold Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, UNICEF and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

United Nations Messengers of Peace

The Messengers of Peace scheme was instigated in 1998 as a central addition to the system of UN goodwill ambassadors and honorary ambassadors, which has been run by the different UN agencies since 1954, when UNICEF appointed Danny Kaye as its first goodwill ambassador.

Van Vliet

:nl:Paul van Vliet (born 1935), Dutch cabaretier and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador