Press Releases
April 22, 2013
Pier 1 Imports Raises $1.9 Million for Children through UNICEF Greeting Card Sales
Sharon Leite, Executive Vice President of Stores at Pier 1 Imports®, the original global importer of imported decorative home furnishings and gifts, presented a check Tuesday for $1.9 million to Caryl Stern, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, for proceeds raised from the 2012 sales of UNICEF’s holiday greeting cards. One hundred percent of the funds will go to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support UNICEF’s child survival and development programs worldwide.
April 22, 2013
Mother’s Day Gifts Help Children Across the Globe
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF today announced a line of Mother’s Day gifts that help provide children in developing countries with a healthier childhood. Purchasing items like hand-carved jewelry from UNICEF’s cards and gifts collection, or a special edition “Gucci for UNICEF” Boston handbag, will support survival and development programs for children worldwide. Shoppers can also choose to give lifesaving UNICEF Inspired Gifts like a Safe Birthing Kit, which may be purchased in honor of mom and which can help babies gain a healthy start.
April 19, 2013
UNICEF Staffers Make TIME 100 List “World’s Most Influential People”
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake congratulated Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, co-leads of UNICEF’s Innovation Unit, on being selected for this year’s prestigious TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world. Fabian and Kochi drive new technologies and strategies at UNICEF. UNICEF also congratulated to all of the 2013 TIME 100, and in particular to 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, for her inspiring and unflagging support for girls’ education.
April 19, 2013
UNICEF Reports One in Five Children Unimmunized and At Risk
UNICEF is concerned that efforts to vaccinate every child are plateauing as funding falls and political will stagnates. In 2011 22.4 million children were not immunized—an increase of more than 1 million from 2010. Vaccines are estimated to save the lives of 2 to 3 million children each year and represent one of the greatest achievements in public health of the last century, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Immunization is also cost effective. It costs less than $1 to protect a child against measles for life.
April 19, 2013
Emergency Supplies for Women and Children Reach Aleppo and Homs, Syria
UNICEF and partners have just completed delivery of lifesaving humanitarian assistance to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, while a separate mission this week brought emergency supplies for children and women in Talbiseh, near Homs, one of the hardest hit areas in the country. With the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and other UN agencies, UNICEF brought to Aleppo four trucks filled with 89 medical kits, 2,000 family hygiene kits and 2 resuscitation kits, along with 1,000 towels, 48 boxes of soap, summer clothing and school supplies.
