UNICEF By Sayoko Sueyoshi. What is UNICEF? United International Children’s Fund Provides long-term...

UNICEFBy Sayoko Sueyoshi

What is UNICEF?United International Children’s Fund

Provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children, mothers

Headquarters in NYC

Staff in over 190 countries/territories

Facilities in Copenhagen, Denmark and Florence, Italy

Finances2012: $3416 million of $3866 million donated

used for development

90.3%1 for program expenses

Money Source: Private Donors and Governments, Fundraising

1Charity Navigator

Budget Breakdown

90.3%

2.8%6.7% 0.2%

Program ExpensesAdministrative ExpensesFundraising ExpensesOther

Data According to UNICEFUnder five mortality rates

Haiti is 31st

India is 49th

China is 120th

Russia is 136th

U.S. is 150th

History

UNICEFfounded

1946 1953

Joinsthe UN

1959 1961 1965 1979 1987 1990

Declarationof the Rights of Child

Focus switchto needs ofwhole child

NobelPeacePrize

InternationalYear ofthe Child

Landmark studyprompts debate

World Summitfor Children

Numbers

Charity Fundraising Efficiency

Program Percent

Amount Spent

UNICEF $0.06 90.3% $444,531,213

Save the Children $0.05 90.0% $536,641,630

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

$0.20 70.0% $627,753,992

March of Dimes $0.23 65.9% $136,703,482Charity Navigator, 2012

UNICEF and Infectious DiseaseIMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood

Illness)

Prevent sickness and deaths by improving health worker skills, health systems and family and community practices

Teach hygiene and improve water safety

Tap ProjectProvide clean water to children

If you leave your phone alone for 10 minutes, donates 1 day worth of water

Access uniceftapproject.org on your phone

ControversiesHas policy of preferring that children stay in

orphanages in home countryGiving huge cash payments to make countries

close adoption clinics

Child mortality rate has not decreased in some areas

How to Get InvolvedVolunteer

Be informed

Advocate

Donate

Start campus club

References Charity Navigator. Web.

"UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund." UNICEF. Web.

10 Ways to Get Involved with UNICEF. N.p.: UNICEF, n.d. PDF.

Child Poverty Report. N.p.: UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, n.d. PDF.

Declaration of the Rights of the Child. N.p.: UN General Assembly, 20 Nov. 1959. PDF.

Horton, R. "UNICEF Leadership 2005–2015: A Call for Strategic Change." The Lancet 364.9451 (2004): 2071-074. Print.

"Social and Economic Policy." UNICEF. N.p., n.d. Web.

State of the World's Children. New York: UNICEF, Jan. 2014. PDF.

"UNICEF Tap Project." The. N.p., n.d. Web.