Become a UNICEF Global Parent
HELP Make a difference to millions of children's lives.
UNICEF Global Parents make a powerful contribution to the world's children. Your donations are used in many different ways. For example:
- To immunise millions of children from preventable diseases. UNICEF continues to supply vaccines reaching 56 per cent of the world’s children.
- To ensure more children get access to education, giving them the tools to improve their lives and those of their whole family. Every year millions of children go back to school with UNICEF’s educational supplies and many more benefit from change brought about as a result of UNICEF’s education advocacy work.
- To help prevent HIV and support children and families impacted by AIDS, by procuring and delivering HIV/AIDS supplies to more than 50 developing countries.
- To ensure children grow up in a protected environment. In Malawi, for example, UNICEF has been helping families and communities to care for their orphans and vulnerable children by supporting 611 childcare centres, which help nearly 50,000 children under the age of five.
- To respond instantly to more than 270 emergencies each year. Even when natural disasters don’t make the news; we’re there. In all conflicts, we’re on the children’s side. And we always stay until the work is done.
When you join UNICEF's Global Parent Program, your regular monthly contribution goes beyond helpful one-off donations or sponsorship of a single child. Your contributions enable UNICEF to help children and their families both at a grass-roots level building sustainable communities, and at a macro political level, lobbying and influencing governments to make changes that help children survive and thrive. UNICEF has the global authority to influence decision-makers, combined with the ability - and the network of partners - to help individual children.
UNICEF believes that sustainable development is the key to a successful future - providing people in developing countries with the supplies, skills and infrastructure they need to look after themselves and their communities once UNICEF personnel leave.
As a UNICEF Global Parent you will receive regular updates on the work you are helping make possible. And each July you will receive a single, consolidated tax receipt to assist you in your tax return preparation.
You can give via your credit card or by direct debit from your bank account. And of course, you can alter your donation at any time.
UNICEF GLOBAL PARENTS EFFECT GLOBAL CHANGE.
UNICEF's work is global in size and scale, so a UNICEF Global Parent's regular monthly donation provides for not just one child, in one village, in one country - but for many children who desperately need your help in any of the over 150 developing countries and territories where UNICEF works.
It is an enduring commitment that helps children survive and develop through the key stages of childhood, making their world a brighter place.
In 2006, in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF immunised over 33 million Bangladeshi children against measles - in just 20 days.
In 2008, thanks to heavy lobbying by UNICEF, the government of Togo, in Western Africa, abolished school fees and announced the introduction of free primary education. With a net enrolment rate of about three-quarters of school children - combined with the newly free primary education system - Togo is in a good position to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015.
One of the key benefits of this program is that we know in advance the extent of the funds we can commit - allowing us to plan effectively and to transfer funds where the need is greatest, quickly. It also means that our reach can be truly global - planning and delivering programs for all children, including those in countries and areas which never make the news, as well as more well-known development 'hot-spots'.
BECOME A UNICEF GLOBAL PARENT
call 1300 134 071
Please return the completed form to:
UNICEF Australia
PO Box 488
Queen Victoria Building NSW 1230
Fax: 1300 780 522
On behalf of the world's children, thank you.