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| UNICEF - GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT WE HAVE |
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We grumble about this and that but when you look
at how little others have it makes the little day
to day stuff seem insignificant! Go to unicef.ca
and give what you can. Rather than taking flowers
for dinner on the weekend make a donation that
will feed a family or medication to save a life.
Your host will understand and thank you.
Background song: Cat Stevens - How can I tell you.
All credits for the use of the song to UMG and Cat
Stevens.
Tags : UNICEF Thanksgiving World Hunger Cat Stevens How can tell you |
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| UNICEF's Tap Project |
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On World Water Day, March 22, 2007, hundreds of
restaurants in New York City invited customers to
donate just $1 for the tap water they usually
enjoy for free. All the money raised through the
Tap Project helps UNICEF save lives by providing
safe drinking water to children around the world.
Thanks to every restaurant, customer, donor, and
organization who contributed to the Tap Project
and helped make the first year a success! The Tap
Project will be in cities across the country in
March 2008. Stay tuned for updates.
Tags : Tap Project UNICEF Fundraiser Fundraing Restaurants World Water Day Poverty |
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| Unicef - The Smurfs |
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Unicef commercial against war.
Designed as a UNICEF advertisement, and with the
approval of the family of the Smurfs' late creator
Peyo, the 25-second episode was shown on the
national evening news after the 9pm timeslot to
avoid children seeing it. The scene starts with
happy peaceful Smurfs and butterflies, who are
then bombed by warplanes, ending with a lone Baby
Smurf surrounded by dead Smurfs. The final frame
bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives
of children."
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Durée : 27 s |
| UNICEF: Release of the first World Malaria Report |
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UNICEF and the World Health Organization have
launched the first ever World Malaria Report. The
initiative, introduced by UNICEF's Executive
Director Ann M. Veneman, records the burden of
malaria worldwide and follows the progress of
countries in trying to control the disease.
Credits: Producer:Sabine Dolan
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| UNICEF: One Laptop per Child, Google launch initiative |
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NEW YORK, 7 December 2007 -- UNICEF, One Laptop
per Child (OLPC) and Google today announced the
launch of "Our Stories" (www.ourstories.org), a
joint initiative to preserve and share the
histories and identities of cultures around the
world by making personal stories available online
in many languages.
Using laptops, mobile phones and other recording
devices, children will record, in their native
languages, the stories of elders, family members
and friends. These stories will be shared globally
through the Our Stories website, where they can be
found on a Google Map.
By making these stories accessible around the
world, the Our Stories project hopes to contribute
to a better understanding of our shared humanity
across countries and cultures, across religious
traditions, across languages, and across
generations.
"Information technologies can help young people
around the world learn more about each other,"
said UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman.
"Our Stories will promote dialogue across borders
and cultures and give young people a voice on a
wide range of issues."
Low-cost XO laptops by One Laptop per Child will
serve as a foundation to help build this digital
archive of personal stories by providing children
in developing countries with easy-to-use
technology to record their stories and interviews.
"One Laptop per Child is very excited about
partnering with Google and UNICEF to capture the
thoughts and feelings of children and their
communities around the world," said Walter Bender,
President of Software and Content/COO, One Laptop
per Child. "The XO laptop is a tool for sharing
and collaboration and this project is a great way
to build a global community."
The Our Stories website will initially include
stories collected by Brazil's Museum of the Person
and stories recorded for UNICEF by young people in
Ghana, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
Our Stories has taken inspiration from the
StoryCorps® project in the United States founded
by MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay. "StoryCorps is
proud to lend its experience in recording the
conversations of nearly 30,000 Americans to this
global undertaking," said Isay. "These efforts
teach us that the lives of everyone -- whether
they are in New York or Nairobi -- matter, and
that they will not be forgotten."
More stories from more countries will be added to
the site every month in an effort to preserve an
oral history of humanity in the 21st Century.
"Google as both a company and as a culture loves a
good story," said Elliot Schrage, Vice President
of Global Communications and Public Affairs for
Google. "We're proud to support the Our Stories
global initiative and we hope that this
collaboration will not just encourage better
storytelling but better listening to stories."
Leading figures have already lent their voices to
the project: Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the
United Nations, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al
Abdullah, Queen of Jordan and UNICEF Eminent
Advocate for Children, and Ishmael Beah, UNICEF
Advocate for Children Affected by War and
best-selling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of
a Boy Soldier, have all recorded messages
welcoming users to the site and encouraging them
to share their stories.
Listen to a story today at www.ourstories.org.
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