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The UNICEF UK Shop is now offering free delivery to all customers who spend over £50 at their online boutique. Simply add the voucher code -

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at the online checkout when purchasing over £50 worth of goodies to enjoy free postage and packing (worth £4.95), and that’s not all. For a very limited time you will now receive UNICEF premium eco bag absolutely free with all orders. There’s loads to choose from, including -

• £2 – Unite against Aids Wristband
• £8.95 – UNICEF Pocket Diary
• £14.95 – Happy Children Watch
• £14.94 – Adidas UNICEF Football
• £19.95 – Global Cuddly Bear

Plus many, many more excellent charity gift ideas for all the family. But do hurry, as this great offer is only available until the end of Sunday 14th March 2010.

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UNICEF UK will hosting its first ever skydive day at Cambridge Airfield on Saturday 8th May 2010. Supporters from across the country will be completing in the ultimate challenge to help raise money for UNICEF tireless work across the globe. By taking part, you will be helping to promote and protect the rights of children in over 190 countries, plus having a lot of fun!

Those that choose to join in the fun will receive -

• Fundraising pack
• Personal online fundraising page
• Free UNICEF t-shirt
• Supported from the UNICEF UK Team
• Encouragement and refreshments
• Special goodie bag

Participants must be 16 and those that are under 18 will need parentalconsent. All participants must also complete a medical form. So why not take the big jump and help raise funds for the UNICEF UK childrens charity, you never know, it could be the biggest thrill of your life!

To take part Contact UNICEF for a skydiving pack at fundraisinghelp@unicef.org.uk or call 0844 801 2414 with your name, postal address, telephone number, and T-shirt size.

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

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UNICEF UK is asking people and world leaders to Put It Right, and help protect the rights of children around the globe. All children should be born with the same rights and privileges, no matter where they are born. Children deserve the right to the right to education, to be healthy, to be heard, to be treated fairly…

the right to have a childhood.

The problem is, that millions of children around the world don’t have a childhood, and all these rights are denied. UNICEF childrens charity want you to help them put it right for children and show that it is unacceptable for them to live this way. By working in more than 190 countries across the globe, UNICEF try to uphold the rights of all children, no matter where they were born, but they need your help…

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

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What started off as simple sponsored bike ride for UNICEF UK turned into a whirlwind adventure for little Charlie Simpson! Charlie was the toast of Britain after he astonishingly raised over £200,000 for Haiti earthquake victims in just 24 hours! Click below to see Charlie’s AMAZING ‘Just Giving’ page -

Charlie Simpson Just Giving

Charlie had initally hoped to raise around £500 by riding his bike around the local park, but as news of his valiant effort spread, so did the donations on his appeal site! Thousands of people flogged from across the UK to sponsor him, including some very special supporters. As TV stations got wind of the story, so did a few famous faces including Simon Cowell, who donated £5,000, and even the Prime Minister Gordon Brown got in on the act.

Charlies Mum, Leonora, said -

We cannot believe what he has managed to do. It just took off. What started off as a little cycle round the park with his dad has turned into something a lot bigger than that and we can’t believe it. He’s done really well. He’s worked hard and he’s raised a phenomenal amount of money. He really felt strongly about this and thought that something had to be done. It was great to see him so motivated. I am extremely proud of our Charlie.

This truly heart warming story just goes to show you that in times of need, people really can pull together, even if it does take a 7 year old to show us the way!

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

The UNICEF charity ambassador, David Beckham, recently took time out of his hectic schedule to visit South Africa and check on the progress that has been made around the world in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Beckham visited a clinic in Cape Town where he met pregnant young women and new mums who are living in the shadow of the HIV virus. The UNICEF programme ‘Mothers to Mothers’ is helping to provide the education and support that will help to prevent young women and mothers pass on the virus to their unborn babies. Founder of the programme, Dr. Mitch Besserby, met David and told him about the care and support that the clinic’s patients are receiving.

David Beckham said -

It gives me such hope that in a country like South Africa where over 5 million people are living with HIV, this inspiring work is being done by UNICEF childrens charity and their partners to help prevent the virus passing from pregnant mothers to their newborn children. The solution is cheap and it’s simple and can help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year. Children have a right to be as healthy as possible and I can think of no better thing than ensuring babies are born free from HIV.

If all the women who needed it received treatment to prevent transmission of HIV to their babies, a generation of children free from the virus could be within reach. Now, everyone needs to come together to make sure this happens. I urge everyone to support this work and help save the lives of babies.

A baby is born with HIV somewhere in the world almost every minute of every day. The disease is passed on by their mother during pregnancy, but with simple inexpensive treatment, the mother-to-child transmission of HIV is almost entirely preventable. Thanks to health charity programmes such as ‘Mothers to Mothers’, 73% of those most in need of treatment are receiving it, compared to just 15% in 2004. But more work must be done across Africa to help stop the unneccesary amount of children still being born with HIV.

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

Today is World AIDS Day, a day of international awareness for the global battle that the UNICEF charity continues to fight on a daily basis. Held every year on the 1st December for the last 11 years, this year’s World AIDS Day theme is ‘human rights and access to treatment’, a call to all countries to  to remove laws that discriminate against people living with HIV.

Every minute two young people are infected with HIV. Every two minutes a child dies of AIDS.

HIV is becoming increasingly a disease of the young, especially girls. Yet with more education and medicine, HIV is both preventable and treatable. Over a quarter of a million children under the age of 15 died because of AIDS in 2007, yet despite this, worse may yet be to come. UNICEF’s Campaign Against AIDS aims to -

• prevent new infections among children and young people
• prevent mother-to-child transmission
• provide treatment for children living with the virus
• provide protection and support to those affected by HIV and AIDS

You can help provide care for those living in the shadow of HIV by purchasing a UNICEF Inspired Gift, who actually have a number of virtual presents that are tailor made to help fight the AIDS virus. A charity gift can provide life saving items to children and communities throughout the world…

so why not order an Inspired Gift fron UNICEF today, and help mark World AIDS Day by making a real difference?

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The UNICEF charity is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary with the release of a special edition publication, The State of the World’s Children. The book will detail UNICEF’s undoubted worldwide progress over the past two decades, but also feature some of the lengths that still have to be reached to ensure every child’s rights are fulfilled.

Since 1989, UNICEF mad a promise to the children of the world to change national laws, the way international organisations work and ensure greater protection for children affected by conflict. UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor, speaks out about a child’s right to health and getting involved with the fight against AIDS.

The UNICEF childrens charity is still fighting hard to keep their promise to help every child in the world have a fullfilling life no matter what their circumstances. Every child has the right to a childhood, to be educated, to be healthy, to be treated fairly and to be heard.

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

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UNICEF UK is throwing in a little extra this Christmas for all you charity gift shoppers out there. Now if you order £35 or more worth of gifts from the UNICEF online store you can now receive FREE postage until December 13th 2009 (Offer excludes donations, P&P and Inspired Gifts). Simply add the media code below to qualify for free postage and packing -

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There are hundreds of gift ideas to choose from at the UNICEF store, including -

• Christmas Cards
• Fair Trade Gifts
• Calendars & Diaries
• Candles & Decorations
• Stationary & Gift Wrap

Not only will you be purchasing a great value gift, but you will also be helping to provide funds for vulnerable children across the globe. Thanks to your gifts, UNICEF can continue their tireless work to stop hunger and end poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries.

> > Click here to shop online at the UNICEF shop

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the present that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

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UNICEF charity staff and supplies are being prepared with Typhoon Lupit scheduled to hit the Philippines in the next few days. Lupit, which means fierce in Filipino, is a category 4 typhoon, and is the third to hit the North of the country in the last 2 months.

A category 4 can create winds of up to 120mph, and in preparation the Filipino government is evacuating people in the northern areas which are prone to floods and landslides. UNICEF are now preparing water and sanitation supplies to assist the 8,000 families who could be affected in the aftermath.

The Philippines has now had 5 severe weather related disasters across the country since September, with many people killed, injured and over 80,000 still in evacuation centres.

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Fiona Hesselden, said -

This region is still suffering from the two previous typhoons and UNICEF remains very concerned about sanitation, hygiene and access to clean and safe water both inside and outside of evacuation centres. There are cases of acute watery diarrhoea and confirmed cases of cholera. So far the Department of Health reports they are under control and UNICEF is ensuring that the necessary preventative measures are in place.

UNICEF has appealed for £7.5 million pounds to support their tireless work to help the thousands of people left homeless in the Philippines but that amount is expected to rise to about £10 million. Thanks to the public’s generous donations, UNICEF will be on hand to help the Filipino people during their hour of need.

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the present that keeps on giving.

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The UNICEF charity has just released figures that show a 28% decline in the rate of deaths of children under 5 years of age in the last 2 decades. These figures are encouraging, but with an estimated 8.8 million children still dying across the globe, there is still a tremendous amount of work needed to increase their worldwide mortality rate.

The results, finalised by analysis from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the United Nations Population Division, shows that the average rate of decline in the last 9 years is 2.3 per cent, compared to a 1.4 per cent average decline from 1990 to 2000. Through these small percentage rises, the death rate reduction has seen 4 million more under 5’s survive across the globe, a figure that should continue to rise in the future.

UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman, said -

Compared to 1990, 10,000 fewer children are dying every day. While progress is being made, it is unacceptable that each year 8.8 million children die before their fifth birthday. A handful of countries with large populations bear a disproportionate burden of under-five deaths, with forty per cent of the world’s under-five deaths occurring in just three countries:  India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Unless mortality in these countries can be significantly reduced, the MDG targets will not be met. Achieving the Millennium Development Goal target of a two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality by 2015 will require a strong sense of urgency with targeted resources for greater progress.

The increase in global immunisations and vaccinations is a key reason why positive results have followed, though this is not the case in all countries. In South Africa the under 5 mortality rate has actually gone up in the last 20 years, due to the fact that South Africa has the highest number of women with HIV in the world. The two leading causes of death is pneumonia and diarrhea, though with new vaccines against pneumococcal pneumonia and rotaviral diarrhea, the mortality rate should continue to rise slowly but surely.

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual present like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and a charity gift would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the present that keeps on giving.

> > Click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

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