Tag: UNICEF

UNICEF Launches First Ever Domestic Emergency Response Programme To Provide Food Support For Vulnerable Children Across The UK

Stuart Mitchell

Unicef UK has launched its first ever domestic emergency response programme to support children in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Food Power for Generation Covid’, a grant-funded programme, is launching today in partnership with the food and farming charity Sustain. The joint initiative will ensure that the most vulnerable children and their families have access to food during the coronavirus crisis by providing grants to community food projects until February 2021. The coronavirus pandemic is the most urgent crisis affecting children since the Second World War, upending children’s lives around…

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Soccer Aid for Unicef returns to Old Trafford this September

Stuart Mitchell

Soccer Aid for Unicef has today announced that the world’s biggest charity football match will take place this September at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. Viewers will get to enjoy the match from the comfort of their sofas as the game will be broadcast live on ITV and STV and, for the first time ever, will be played behind closed doors. The star-studded match will still be a game like no other. Just as competitive. Just as entertaining. And at a time when Generation Covid desperately need Unicef’s…

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Pandora joins forces with UNICEF to raise over $1M in aid of new One Love initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Model and activist Halima Aden has come together with Pandora in support of UNICEF’s One Love initiative, to reimagine a world fit for all children. With the goal of preventing the COVID-19 pandemic becoming a lasting crisis for the world’s most vulnerable children, Pandora will match every dollar donated through One Love up to the value of US$1 million. Members of the Marley family are re-recording the late Bob Marley’s iconic anthem One Love in support of UNICEF. Tuff Gong International and Amplified Music will release a new version of…

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World’s Largest Lesson Launches Free Learning Resource to Engage Young Children in Making the World a Better Place

Stuart Mitchell

The World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with UNICEF and supported by Hasbro, has launched Explorers for the Global Goals, a set of free learning resources that give children aged 4-8 the opportunity to explore simple concepts around global issues and develop skills for life. Since 2015 The World’s Largest Lesson has been committed to introducing children and young people everywhere to the Global Goals, a historic 17-point plan agreed upon by world leaders of the United Nations to end poverty, tackle inequality and fight climate change. In 2019, The World’s…

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UNICEF and Airtel Africa announce partnership to support children and families affected by COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF announced a new partnership with Airtel Africa aimed at providing children with access to remote learning and enable access to cash assistance for their families via mobile cash transfers. Under this partnership, UNICEF and Airtel Africa will use mobile technology to benefit an estimated 133 million school age children currently affected by school closures in 13 countries across sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. The adverse effects of school closures on children’s learning are well documented.  Education experts warn that gains made in increasing access to learning in the…

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