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Banging the Drum

By UNICEF NZ Intern, Published: March 9, 2010
This is a post by Pip Bennett, International Advocacy Intern at UNICEF NZ. For over a month I have been interning at the UNICEF NZ office in Wellington. I have been working with Vicki, the Advocacy Manager – International. Most of my time has been devoted to a new campaign called “Banging the Drum”. It is about [...]
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UNICEF aid is getting through

By UNICEF NZ Intern, Published: January 20, 2010
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ. As you know, last week Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was hit by the worst earthquake in two centuries. Daily news bulletins have been alerting us to the tragic consequences a disaster of this magnitude is having on Haiti. The UN is [...]
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Children are our future

By UNICEF NZ Intern, Published: December 9, 2009
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ. UNICEF and Enviro-Challenge worked with five young Kiwis to get them to the UNICEF Children’s Climate Forum in Copenhagen, which ended last week. The Kiwi teens were among 160 other delegates from 44 countries. The Forum took place in the lead-up up to the intergovernmental [...]
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Interning at UNICEF

By UNICEF NZ Intern, Published: November 24, 2009
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ. After spending the last two years in full time study, I leapt at the opportunity to do a university paper outside a classroom and get into the ‘real world.’ As a kinesthetic learner the chance to apply classroom theories to ‘real life’ situations was [...]
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