19 Facts About UNICEF UK

1. UNICEF UK is a program that helps needy children and promotes children's rights around the world.

2. UNICEF UK has concentrated much of its effort in areas in which relatively small expenditures can have a significant impact on the lives of the most disadvantaged children, such as the prevention and treatment of disease.

3. UNICEF UK provides information, services, and products to fight childhood diseases such as educational programs, immunizations, and nutritional supplements.

4. UNICEF UK participates in the Global Movement for Children, an international effort dedicated to building a better world for children by assuring that violations of their rights do not occur.

5. UNICEF UK has undertaken pioneering work with public personalities, including those in the performing arts or athletics, to generate public support for public health issues.

6. UNICEF UK faces the twenty-first century invigorated by prospects in tackling problems that impact harshly on children in developing countries.

7. UNICEF UK wants to create a more equal world, a better world for all children.

8. UNICEF UK helps when disaster such as earthquakes or hurricanes strike or when children living in some of the poorest countries in the world need food or medicine.

9. UNICEF UK is an international organisation that works all around the world to help improve health and education of children.

10. UNICEF UK says it wants the government to set legally binding targets to meet World Health Organisation recommended limit values for particulate matter by the 2030s.

11. UNICEF UK says everyday one in three children are breathing in dangerous levels of air pollution which can cause respiratory problems.

12. UNICEF UK is urging AU governments to work together to collect and share better, timely and accessible data and evidence, disaggregated by age and gender, that will improve understanding of how migration and forced displacement affect children and their families.

13. In terms of child survival, UNICEF UK is seeking to completely eradicate polio, to increase the percentage of children protected against malaria by mosquito nets, to protect children in the early years of life by promoting exclusive breastfeeding and to reduce the risk of children dying from diarrhoeal diseases by improving access to water and sanitation facilities.

14. UNICEF UK supplies educational materials, mobilises teachers, registers children, prepares school facilities and develops curricula in countries affected by conflict and other emergencies.

15. UNICEF UK is required to promote the effective implementation of the Convention and to encourage international cooperation for the benefit of children.

16. UNICEF UK was the first charity to produce and sell cards for the purpose of raising funds.

17. UNICEF UK is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and the support from corporate partners makes a significant contribution to its work.

18. UNICEF UK has a long history of support from its Ambassadors and high-profile supporters, who play a vital role in promoting UNICEF, advocating and fundraising on its behalf.

19. UNICEF UK raises funds for these programmes through donations, the sale of cards and gifts, partnerships with companies and special events.