Founded 79 years ago by the Polish physician and bacteriologist Ludwik Witold Rajchman, The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund — UNICEF — exists…
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to reach the most disadvantaged children and adolescents.
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to protect the rights of every child, everywhere.
Largely absent from the mass and social media, UNICEF is in your mailbox mostly during the pre-Christmas times when it’s asking for your money to support the extraordinary work UNICEF does come rain or shine in this extraordinarily insane world of ours.
If we’re not grateful that Ludwik Witold Rajchman founded UNICEF 79 years ago, and that it’s still making a BIG difference to our disadvantaged children and adolescents today, what will we be grateful for?
TAKEAWAY
Did you have a contribution in mind to UNICEF, or to a like-minded organisation in your neck of the woods, before you read this post?
If so, make it DOUBLE that contribution now, to General donation | unicef.ch
If not now, then when?
Every disadvantaged child says “Thank you!” from the bottom of its heart.
And you know this post has paid off.
The International Movement ATD Fourth World is since several years in regular contact with UNICEF. I’ve been personally involved in some events, like in 1999 for the 10th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, I helped in the preparation of a Children Congress organised by ATD in Geneva. About 80 children for some 20 different countries took part in the Congress and Janet Nelson who was at that time working at the UNICEF office in Geneva was with us. When I was in Bangkok, we had good contact with the South East regional director of UNICEF. In the early nineties, UNICEF and ATD worked together for a survey that is published in the book “Reaching the Poorest”. In the eighties, ATD presented a children drawing exhibition in New York UNICEF Headquarters… etc
Marie-Claire, hats off & congratulations to you and ATD. I know much about you, yet there are still so many things that are new and I’m in constant learning mode 🙂