July 13, 2011
Posts Categorized: UNICEF
June 6, 2011
High level meeting on AIDS happening this week
April 25, 2011
World Malaria Day
As a student, I travelled to Tanga, Tanzania to do community development work and research for 3 months. Before I left for Tanzania, I received every vaccination that was required, received the most expensive and top-of-the-line antimalarial pills and bought…
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April 20, 2011
Northminster Presbyterian Church puts mission into practice
The Northminster Presbyterian Church visited the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations on Saturday, April 16. The group had the opportunity to tie mission into advocacy practice. The group from Northminster had spent days doing mission work close to New…
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April 1, 2011
Habitat for Elgin – Water for the World
A group from the Agape House Center for Christian Ministry at the University of Illinois at Chicago went to Elgin to work on a Habitat for Humanity house on March 23, 2011. On that same day, they collected money for…
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March 26, 2011
Madagascar: Route to Democracy Needs Revision
As people clamor for democracy across North Africa, the United States has an opportunity to support a return to democracy in Madagascar. The United States can do this by calling on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to revise the…
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March 22, 2011
On a rainy day . . .
. . . in New York town, I thought a lot about water. Recognizing the destructive power of water, I made a gift to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance to care for those in Japan affected by the tsunami. Recognizing our dependence…
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March 14, 2011
Share a drink of clean water
Participate in the UNICEF Tap Project Providing clean water helps achieve Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
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March 13, 2011
About the UNICEF Tap Project
Share a drink of water through the UNICEF Tap Project Check out participating restaurants Find ways to help In 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project was born in New York City based on a simple concept: restaurants would ask their patrons…
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February 25, 2011
What will I do?
Participants were asked to ponder “What will I do with what I have learned?” at the close of the Fab Five Seminar on climate change and its impacts at the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations. Responses included: Push my…
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