Unicef Quotes

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

UNICEF`s Voices of Youth has organized many Internet chats, like the one you participated in, among children and teachers around the world.

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world`s children.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world`s children.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

And UNICEF uses the Internet to spread ideas, exchange information, to raise awareness on rights and on how to better implement human rights.

In my role as National Ambassador for UNICEF I`ve found that a people, a culture is as good as the stories it tells about itself. Our stories tell us who we think we were, are, and will become. It`s through our stories that we imbue the ethics, morals and values that are key to the survival of a culture and its people. A child asking to be told a story again is reaching for a tool that will serve a lifetime. When a people`s story telling falters they have lost a clear sense of who they are and their world is in decline.