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Oct 27, 2011

UNICEF News, Oct 27, 2011


William and Catherine to Support East African Famine Relief
Fox News
... UNICEF, along with many other partners, is working tirelessly to ensure that children's lives can be saved across East Africa. Every day children are being given food and water thanks to the huge generosity of the public all around the world. ...
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Fox News
On World Polio Day, UNICEF launches new website focusing on global ...
UNICEF (press release)
To support and strengthen communication efforts in all the polio priority countries,UNICEF has launched a new web site, PolioInfo, that will make this critical social data easier to access. PolioInfo is linked to the official website of the Global ...
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UNICEF (press release)
Trick-or-treat for UNICEF with your smartphone
WVLT
(WVLT) -- For more than six decades, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has been a symbol of both Halloween and making a difference in the lives of children around the world. To mark the launch of the 61st campaign, the iconic orange donation box is getting a ...
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UNICEF Honors Sting And Trudie Styler With Children's Champion Award
Look To The Stars
Sting and Styler, a UK UNICEF Ambassador since 2004, strive to make a difference for children around the world and protect the environment through numerous public efforts. From raising funds and awareness for the UNICEF End Child Exploitation and ...
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Wheeling Jesuit Students Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
State Journal
Kids and adults alike from around the world have participated in Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF since it began in 1950. The UNICEF initiative was born when a family in Pennsylvania started a nationwide movement: collecting change in decorated milk cartons ...
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James Lews column: Your pennies help needy children
Wausau Daily Herald
Wausau-area pupils will collect for the many other needy areas in the world. UNICEF works in more than 150 of the world's poorest countries. In Somalia, 1.4 million children are in need of emergency aid. Of that number, 480000 children are severely ...
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The Best $300000 You'll Ever Spend on a T-shirt
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
With the worst humanitarian crisis in the world currently unfolding in the Horn of Africa, Threadless, BBH New York and the US Fund for UNICEF have partnered to launch GOOD SHIRTS: a unique clothing line with 100 percent of the purchase price going to ...
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Nigeria: When UNICEF Tasked Media On Elimination of Mother to Child ...
AllAfrica.com
... to the world, having the highest number of pregnant women, about 200, 000 living with the epidemic and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) believes reducing the burden lies squarely on the shoulders of the media. ...
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Letter: Trick or Treat for UNICEF, Halloween On Oct. 31
Port Washington News
It's time once again to think about this year's Halloween costumes and “trick-or-treating” for UNICEF.UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, was founded in 1946 to protect the well-being of children in the aftermath of World War II. ...
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YEMEN: Child health indicators getting worse
IRINnews.org
Yemen has the world's second highest rate of chronic malnutrition, after Afghanistan, and about half the population live in deep poverty. More than half the children under five years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition. According to UNICEF ...
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Unicef, WHO find solution in effective vaccination
The News International
Meanwhile, World Health Organisation, Pakistan Representative Dr Guido Sabatinelli said eradicating polio from Pakistan depended on delivering oral polio vaccine to each and every child, including the most vulnerable and the hardest-to-reach. ...
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Eradicating polio: Three-day anti-polio campaign launched in KP
The Express Tribune
... officials and Unicef representatives were also present at the occasion. The campaign is part of the three days National Immunisation Days (NIDs) program that will be launched across the country from October 24, coinciding with the World Polio Day....
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The Express Tribune
Search Begins for NZ's Unicef Youth Ambassadors
Voxy
UNICEF NZ is accepting applications until Friday 25 November from young New Zealanders who want to take action to improve the lives of young people around the world. Applicants for the UNICEFYouth Ambassador programme need to be aged between 16-18 ...
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Trick or Treat for UNICEF Goes High Tech (VIDEO)
TakePart
New mobile app makes it easier than ever to help kids around the world on Halloween. By Max Follmer For more than 60 years, kids have been making a big impact on Halloween with Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. (Photo: UNICEF) The iconic orange UNICEFboxes ...
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TakePart
Cholera epidemic hits Western, Central Africa
News-Medical.net
"Western and central Africa are facing one of the biggest cholera epidemics in their history, theWorld Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said last month, in reporting that more than 85000 cases of cholera have been ...
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UNICEF Christmas Gift and Craft Fair
AboutMyArea
The Leeds group of UNICEF UK want to bring the two together by helping you in your search for that elusive 'just right' Christmas present and by helping the most disadvantaged of children. These are so many children around the world lacking clean water ...
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AboutMyArea
The Radically Engaged Business - An Interview with Caryl Stern UNICEF
Justmeans
About Edelman Edelman is the world's largest independent public relations firm, with wholly owned offices in 54 cities and 4000 employees worldwide. Edelman was named Advertising Age's top-ranked PR firm of the decade and one of its "2010 A-List ...
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Kiwi dollars go to use in the Horn of Africa
3News NZ
Dagahaley camp is part of the Dadaab refugee camp – the largest refugee camp in theworld (Photo: UNICEF) Somali women learn how to prepare food for their families as a part of a UNICEF Nutrition and Food Voucher Program. ...
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3News NZ
UNICEF-Boxes on Bloor
Canada NewsWire (press release)
The traditional orange UNICEF Halloween box re-appears in life-size form, kicking off the National UNICEF Day Campaign. Canadians can now find the virtual box atunicef.ca/oct31 and donate on-line to help kids around the world. ...
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Canada NewsWire (press release)
UNICEF supports efforts to reunite families in post-conflict Sri Lanka
UNICEF (press release)
Her face, her gestures speak a language known across the world - a language of pain, of loss, yet somehow still of human hope. Bent double at 91 years of age, Meenadchy was left for dead in the chaos of the final stages of Sri Lanka's 27 year war. ...
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UNICEF (press release)
Corporate and Alliances Manager
Third Sector
For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and ...
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Oct. 24 is Observe World Polio Day
The Union of Grass Valley
In fact, Rotary's vision of a polio-free world inspired the creation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which is spearheaded by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
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Monday is World Polio Day in Moorpark
Patch.com
The organization launched programs in 1985, working with the World Health Organization, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF, to immunize the children of the worldagainst the disease. Rotary Club member Matt Miguelena explained to ...
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It's love and presence not stuff and presents that counts with kids, say the ...
WalesOnline
But although guilty parents feel under “tremendous pressure” to buy the latest gadgets and branded goods for their kids to compensate for the lack of time they spend together, a recent Unicef report found children's happiness doesn't depend on owning ...
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UN advocates for prayer to promote children's welfare
Antigua Observer
ST JOHN'S, Antigua – Universal Children's Day will be commemorated on November 20 and UNICEFis advocating the day be set aside for prayer for the well-being of all children. “More than a day, theWorld Day of Prayer and Action For Children is a ...
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Cholera sweeps western and central Africa
The Guardian
... the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund said last month, in reporting that more than 85000 cases of cholera have been registered since the beginning of the year, with nearly 2500 deaths. Unicef has identified three main ...
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The Guardian
At a glance: Lao People's Democratic Republic
UNICEF (press release)
... world – but it is not practiced regularly enough. “Each year diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections are responsible for the deaths of thousands of children under the age of five,” said Tim Schaffter, UNICEF Representative in Lao PDR. ...
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Zambia's growing population
BBC News
I asked Anna Sampa from Unicef why so many poor couples in Africa choose to have large families. It's something that I have found on visits to Sierra Leone, Malawi and other developing nations. She said: "They don't see the potential burden of having ...
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BBC News
The Digital Drum Debuts in Uganda
NTDTV
It's hard to imagine surfing the Internet here in of rural Uganda. But now these kids are tapping into the World Wide Web, thanks to oil drum computers - powered by the sun. Sharad Sapra of Unicefsays Internet access here has been long overdue. ...
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Baby friendly award for University
Asian Correspondent
The certificate was presented to staff and students by UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Professional Officer for Wales, Karen Evans. The Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI), set up by UNICEFand the World Health Organisation, is a global programme which ...
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Floods lap again across Nigeria as governments remain inept, raising risk of ...
Washington Post
In West Africa this year, about 2500 people have died in a cholera epidemic spread from Congo to Mali, according to UNICEF. In Nigeria alone, the country had recorded more than 21000 cholera cases this year by the end of September, the UN agency said. ...
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Emergency child malnutrition rates in Yemen
Examiner.com
Funding remains low for hunger relief missions by the UN World Food Programme and UNICEF. These agencies depend entirely on voluntary funding from the international community. Supplies of the miracle food plumpy'nut, which can stave off malnutrition, ...
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Creating awareness: Walk in Chaman highlights polio threat
The Express Tribune
The walk was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF in collaboration with the district government. The walk started from the district headquarters hospital and participants held placards and banners inscribed with messages for ...
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The Express Tribune
Buy a colour to raise £16.7million for Unicef children's charity
Mirror.co.uk
by Cash Queens, Daily Mirror 21/10/2011 There's 16.7 million colours on an average computer screen and paint giant Dulux has created a mammoth spectrum for Unicef – with every colour in theworld's biggest palette available for just £1. ...
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Bun Fight: Charities Duel For Diners Dollars
Pro Bono Australia
Already 75 percent of donations have been sent to famine areas, according to UNICEF. Australia chief executive Norman Gillespie has just returned from the largest refugee camp in the world, located near the Somali Kenyan border. He told The Age, ...
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Samantha Nutt: How the West is squandering its moral legitimacy
National Post (blog)
According to UNICEF, 6000 of the rebel troops were child soldiers. One of Taylor's election slogans declared: “He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him.” My mission was to lead a joint national review for UNICEF and the United Nations ...
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Help Me, Bono, and Other Organizations End the Famine in Africa
Huffington Post
UNICEF: UNICEF delivers therapeutic foods to treat children suffering from severe malnutrition; provides vaccinations to fight deadly and disabling diseases like measles and polio that threaten malnourished children; improves access to clean water and ...
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World population to reach 7bn in days
Irish Times
The building has no running water or electricity, and vaccines are stored in a small, generator- powered refrigerator given to her by Unicef. She keeps track of her patients' vaccines on a home-made wall chart. An assistant helps keep records and makes ...
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Irish Times
A new government program aims to provide a free education for all Haiti's children
UNICEF (press release)
“Education is crucial for the development of children, families, communities, and for the future of Haiti's reconstruction,” stressed UNICEF Representative in Haiti Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans. “This initiative by the Haitian government will help ...
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UNICEF (press release)
Relief groups fear for aid efforts in Somalia as military tension rises
The Guardian
In Somalia itself, Unicef, the UN agency for children, said the massive humanitarian response to the food crisis has eased the suffering of thousands of people, but more resources are needed to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in ...
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The Guardian
UNESCO Study Reveals Widening Secondary Education Gap
Inter Press Service
Susan Durston, global chief of education at the UN children's agency UNICEF, told IPS that although a number of countries in the African region have made considerable progress in meeting education goals, disparities within countries persist, ...
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Pakistan could become world's last polio reservoir, UNICEF warns ...
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undpi.org : Zimbabwe: Unicef Pledges Support for Rural Sanitation ...
unflags.jpg. The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has pledged to help improve sanitation in rural areas to curb outbreaks of diseases such as cholera. ...
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Will and Kate to visit UNICEF center in Denmark | European ...
Officials say Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge will be traveling to Denmark to visit a United Nations center that distributes emergency supplies to ...
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