Monthly Archives: June 2010

Magnotes and Malaria Nets

By UNICEF NZ, Published: June 24, 2010
Recently we’ve been hearing lots of fun stories from people who support us in original and unusual ways. Here’s how some enterprising students made and sold ‘Magnotes’ to raise money for mosquito nets. In business studies we learned how to set up and run our own small business, which we named ‘Magnotes’. We created magnetic [...]
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Have a blog? Want to do some good?

By UNICEF NZ, Published: June 22, 2010
Have a blog? Want to do some good? Then the kids in Sub-Sahara Africa need you! At the moment, one child somewhere in the world dies of malaria every 30 seconds! It infects 350-500 million people each year, killing 1 million, mostly children in Sub-Sahara Africa, where malaria accounts for about one in five of [...]
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A Rastafari God, UNICEF and ebay

By UNICEF NZ, Published: June 18, 2010
Our supporters sometimes help us out in strange and unusual ways. This one is definitely a first: we have been donated an autographed portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie to auction on ebay. A silver-framed photograph of Emperor Haile Selassie, presented in 1942 to Sir William Jordan, the then NZ High Commissioner in London, has gone [...]
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Thanks and Cake for Volunteer Awareness Week

By UNICEF NZ, Published: June 18, 2010
Next week is Volunteer Awareness Week, and while we are always grateful for our fantastic volunteers, this week we are hosting a morning tea, with lots of coffee and yummy cake, to thank the great Kiwis who help us out. Our volunteers and interns help with everything from research, to organising events, to office admin, [...]
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Fun with fundraising

By UNICEF NZ, Published: June 16, 2010
We have some great supporters around New Zealand, who get up to all sorts of fun and interesting things to help children around the world. One school group told us how they helped to reduce poverty by baking! By Emilee Wright and Phoebe Petrie, Auckland Diocesan School for Girls. Our Year 8 class have been [...]
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