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Thanks and Cake for Volunteer Awareness Week
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, [...]
Banging the Drum
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 [...]
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UNICEF aid is getting through
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 [...]
Children are our future
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 [...]
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