UNICEF

Clay Aiken Blogs For UNICEF

Just Jared (Free subscription) | yesterday

UNICEF Ambassador Clay Aiken recently visited the East African countries of Somalia and Kenya, where UNICEF provides children with health care, education, nutrition, clean water and sanitation. The 29-year-old American Idol alum has written a series of blogs about his experience in the field. Here’s a snippet of one of Clay’s blog posts: “Getting children back [...]

• Clay Aiken Reaches Out to Kenyan Children - People
• Clay Aiken Blogs About Children In Africa - ExpoSay
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Congo-Kinshasa: France And Unicef Sign an Agreement to Support Children Associated With Armed Groups

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

France and UNICEF signed on Wednesday 23 July 2008 in Kinshasa an agreement for 1.1 million dollars for a UNICEF project entitled: "Support to activities of prevention of recruitment of children and the reintegration of children affected by armed conflicts in the DRC."

Unicef - Don't Ignore me - print, China

Adland (Free subscription) | yesterday

We've seen the "person painted as the background" thing used to sell everything from secure internet to chocolate-chip cookies before - but here it finally makes total sense. In fact, the only way I think this could be made better is if these were real kids sitting around all day like this in an ambient/guerilla stunt. Well done O&M Shanghai. There are 1.5 million underprivileged children in China....

UNICEF Impressed With HIV Programmes

All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Government's efforts to ensure universal access for all HIV/AIDS patients in need of anti-retroviral treatment has impressed the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) HIV/AIDS Chief Jimmy Kolker.

"Did I get it wrong again"

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Got up Wednesday and went down to breakfast.Ate 2 plantain pieces one piece of yam my fruit and toast. The woman that runs the guesthouse commented that I must not like Okra which is mixed with fish. NO I do not like Okra. And NO I do not like fish. Put it together and what have you got The breakfast of champions. We ended up having a short conversation about how I don't like fish she wasn

Malaria risk high in cyclone-hit delta

Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday

YANGON, 24 July 2008 (IRIN) - The risk of malaria remains high in Myanmar's cyclone-affected Ayeyarwady Delta, health officials warn, almost three months after Cyclone Nargis struck. Close to 140,000 ...

Don't ignore me

The Letter (Free subscription) | yesterday

Meaningful art concept for these UNICEF China adverts .

CONGO: More children on the streets

Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday

Source: IRIN Louya, a 16-year-old boy begging in the Fonde market of Pointe-Noire, Congo's southern port city, said he was an orphan who had lived on the streets since 1997.

• Congo-Brazzaville: More Children On the Streets - All Africa
• Congo-Kinshasa: More Children on the Streets - All Africa

Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 25, 24 Jul 2008

Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Worldvision Video Puts the Poor in Your Shoes

Culture-buzz (Free subscription) | yesterday

We hear this all the time: water resources are limited. Even just a few days ago, we published this article about a Save Denver's Water campaign. Of course water conservation is important and it is great that ad agencies like Sukle are getting involved to help make us aware of the consequences of our water choices. Let us not forget other water crises out there, however. For example, do you know how...

Obituary: Kate Mortimer

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Obituary: Brilliant economist who applied her skills to the problems of developing countries and diplomats abroad

Clay Aiken Kenya

lalate news (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

This week is the final Clay Aiken Somalia blog post. Clay Aiken had written twice about his UNICEF work in Somalia, but this week reveals his efforts also in Kenya. By the end of Aiken’s first Somalia post, Aiken had already raised $50,000 for UNICEF. LALATE was proud to be the highest ranked celebrity news [...]

At least 3,000 people infected with dengue fever in Myanmar this year

Myanmar (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

At least 3,000 people have been infected with dengue fever in Myanmar so far this year, the local 7-Day news journal reported Wednesday without specifying the number of deaths caused by the disease.

Dating Site Started With Charitable Intent

Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

PRESS RELEASE -- July 22 -- A new Christian oriented dating site ZionMatches.com has just launched. ZionMatches.com have pledged 100% of their profits generated from their first 1000 members will be donated to UNICEF, along with a 25% from each members subscription to be donated as well. FULL ARTICLE @ EXPRESS PRESS RELEASE

Afghanistan: Insurgency, insecurity threaten health progress

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Up to 100,000 people have been deprived of access to basic health services in different parts of Afghanistan over the past four months, due largely to worsening insecurity, with attacks on health workers and health centres, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said.