every child no 2, 2010

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UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFNo. 2, 2010

Rebuilding in Haiti

U . S . F u n d f o r U N I C E F

In This Issue:Feature

8 Rebuilding in Haiti —Children Are the Foundation

Departments

2 UNICEF in the Field

4 Inside the U.S. Fund

7 Field Visit to Panama

14 Partner Profiles:Beryl Sten and Zonta

Samuel Dalembert

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A Message from the U.S. Fund Board Chair and President

Dear Friend of UNICEF,

Your compassion since January’s earthquake in Haiti continues to give us a tremendous sense of pride: pride that we have such

extraordinary partners, and pride that we are part of a nation that has shown unmatched generosity to Haiti in her time of need.

We are honored to be a grant recipient of the monumentally successful

“Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” which

inspired not just Americans but viewers worldwide to give. The U.S.

Fund was awarded $6 million from the Hope for Haiti Now Fund to

support UNICEF’s child protection programs in Haiti. We are deeply

grateful to George Clooney, MTV, CNN, and the Entertainment

Industry Foundation — as well as celebrities, members of the media,

volunteers, and donors around the world — who gave so much in a

single night for Haiti’s children. Special thanks, too, to The Charles

Engelhard Foundation, which recently contributed $1 million

to support UNICEF’s innovative “Art in a Bag” program to help

traumatized children in Haiti.

Every penny all of you have given for Haiti relief is making a difference for children and families there. We’ve watched UNICEF

staff rise to this challenge with awe-inspiring passion and dedication. They are living and working in cramped tents with scant

access to showers and other comforts, and working long days with little respite from the heat.

We’re hopeful that we’ll sustain the level of generosity we’ve seen in recent months — not just for Haiti’s children, but for all the

world’s children. Because, as we must never forget — 24,000 children around the globe continue to die every day for reasons we

can prevent. Throughout the relief operation in Haiti, we have never strayed from our mission to help children everywhere lead the

safe, healthy lives they deserve.

At our recent Annual Meeting, where we had the chance to see many of you, we heard UNICEF Country Representatives vividly

describe just how far we’ve come — and how far we still have to go — to reach zero. Let us promise ourselves, and the world, that

when we meet again we will be celebrating additional progress for children.

Warm regards,

Anthony PantaleoniBoard Chair

Caryl M. Stern President and CEO


CHINA On April 14, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake

struck Yushu Tibetan Autonomous County

in China’s Qinghai Province, killing

an estimated 2,200 people and injuring

more than 12,000. Up to 15,000 buildings

collapsed, including schools, hospitals,

and homes. Survivors have been enduring

rain and very cold temperatures. As of this

writing, UNICEF is distributing 360,000

packets of micronutrient powder to help

children stay healthy. UNICEF is also

providing extensive medical equipment,

such as labor and delivery beds and infant

incubators, and is delivering 40,000 sets of

hygiene kits (each set containing several

kits). Additional UNICEF supplies include 9,000 sets of warm children’s clothing, 6,000 pairs of children’s boots, 2,000 sets of warm

newborn clothes, 2,000 wool blankets, 5,000 student kits, and 150 insulated school tents.

DARFURUNICEF continues to provide a wide range of aid to children and families in the Darfur

region of Sudan, where as many as 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have been

displaced since the conflict began in 2003. In March 2009, when the government of Sudan

revoked the licenses of 16 humanitarian organizations, UNICEF stepped in to help fill critical

gaps in assistance and advocated for the return of the expelled organizations. Last year,

the work of UNICEF and its partners in Darfur included immunizing 1.6 million children

against polio, providing more than 1.4 million vitamin A supplements, treating more than

35,000 malnourished children, and delivering clean water to more than 980,000 people.

YeMeNFierce, ongoing conflict has made this impov-

erished country on the Arabian Peninsula’s

southern tip a particularly harsh and dan-

gerous place for children. Since 2004, fight-

ing has displaced over 250,000 people. Many

children live in precarious circumstances in camps, where malnutrition is a chronic problem

and there is often little opportunity for education. UNICEF has established therapeutic feeding

centers to treat malnourished children, supplied oral rehydration salts to combat life-threaten-

ing diarrhea, delivered medicines, built latrines to improve sanitary conditions, and provided

safe drinking water. For children unable to go to school, UNICEF has created temporary learn-

ing spaces in the camps and supplied learning materials. UNICEF is also working to end child

marriage in Yemen and to care for children affected by this and other harmful practices.

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Emergencies Update

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Weak and Malnourished in CameroonUNICEF Program Gives Children a Second Chance at Health

Two-year-old twins Massing Esther and Tito

Anna are so weak from malnutrition, they

can’t walk. Instead they’re carried, listless,

everywhere they go. The twins, who live in

northern Cameroon, are both more than 11

pounds underweight — a huge percentage

at that age.

The twins’ mother is also underweight

and explains that it’s been a bad year — the

crops they’ve raised aren’t nearly enough

to feed her family of 12. They mostly eat

“Niri,” a mix of corn or millet flour and

water that provides little nourishment.

Vegetables are few and far between, and the

family cannot afford to buy meat.

Malnutrition is one of the biggest

killers in Cameroon — 51,000 children die

because of poor nutrition every year. And

the north has been particularly hard hit.

“In this northern region, we have 100,000

malnourished children with rapid weight

loss,” says Denis Garnier, a nutritionist

with UNICEF Cameroon.

Now, a UNICEF-supported initiative has

deployed over 400 community workers to

advise families on balanced eating and to

direct parents of children who need help

to a UNICEF-supported health center. At

the center, nurses examine children and

thoroughly check their weight and height.

Children who are underweight receive

bowls of fortified food made from a vitamin-

and mineral-rich mixture of corn, soybean,

sugar, and oil. Malnourished children with

medical complications are quickly sent to

the nearby Guider District Hospital, where

they receive aid from more than a dozen

UNICEF-trained nurses and doctors.

At the hospital, Dr. Nana Pamela is

attending a recently admitted eighteen-

month-old boy who is barely conscious.

Though normal weight for his age is 21.6

pounds, the boy weighs just over 15. “His

heartbeat is fast, he is dehydrated and has

anemia too,” Dr. Pamela says. But shortly

after doctors feed the child therapeutic milk

through a tube, he begins to open his eyes.

“Before the UNICEF program started in

2009, people did not have access to the special

type of food needed to treat malnutrition,”

says Dr. Pamela. “Now they have access

to therapeutic milk through the hospital,

as well as ready-to-use therapeutic food,

both at the health centers and hospital.”

Staff say they’ve already seen an increase

in the number of children they have

managed to restore to good health, and there

are fewer deaths from malnutrition. This

is very good news for UNICEF — and for

Cameroon’s children. With proper funding

the program will continue to grow and —

child by child —the scourge of malnutrition

will be beaten back.

To support UNICEF nutrition programs,

please visit unicefusa.org/ig-nutrition

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Two-year-old Massing Esther is so weak from malnutrition, she must be carried. Her mother fixes “Niri” — a gruel with little nourishment that is all the family can afford.


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Anthony Lake Becomes UNICEF’s New Executive Director

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Anthony Lake took the reins as UNICEF’s

sixth Executive Director on May 1. A former

National Board Chair of the U.S. Fund for

UNICEF, Lake was appointed by UN Secre-

tary-General Ban Ki-moon to succeed Ann

M. Veneman, who stepped down on April

30 at the end of her five-year term.

“I am excited to be joining UNICEF,” Lake

says. “I look forward to working with our ex-

ceptional staff and our many partners to ad-

vance children’s rights around the world.”

U.S. Fund President and CEO Caryl M.

Stern welcomed Lake, noting that he “brings

passion and extensive experience to the fight

for child survival.” She added, “We will be

honored to support him in the years ahead.”

Stern also thanked Veneman for her leader-

ship and for “helping to make the world a

safer and better place for children.”

Lake has a long and renowned career in

government, serving as National Security

Advisor under former U.S. President Bill

Clinton. As the United States President’s

Special Envoy, he helped bring about the

agreement ending hostilities between

Ethiopia and Eritrea. He was also instru-

mental in developing policies that led to

peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in

Northern Ireland. Most recently, he was

Distinguished Professor in the Practice of

Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s Ed-

mund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Lake joined the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s

National Board of Directors in 2000. He

was Vice Chair from 2001 to 2004 and Chair

from 2004 to 2007.

The United States nominated Lake to

lead UNICEF. “Tony has a deep commit-

ment to UNICEF and to improving the

welfare of children,” said President Barack

Obama in a statement. “The United States

strongly supports UNICEF, and we look

forward to working with Tony to advance

its vital mission.”

National and Regional Board members, donors, part-

ners, volunteers, and staff from both UNICEF and the

U.S. Fund came together to celebrate the hard work of

the past year and discuss the challenges ahead at the

U.S. Fund’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Haiti, Ethio-

pia, HIV/AIDS, child protection, partner commitment,

and the 60th Anniversary of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

were just some of the topics on the engaging and wide-

ranging agenda. At the opening night dinner, Anderson

Cooper (at left with Caryl M. Stern) shared his experienc-

es covering Haiti’s devastating January 12 earthquake.

Annual Meeting Reinforces Commitment to Zero

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Generation gaps can be vast when it comes

to technology, culture, music, and politics.

But there is one thing that can unite people

of all ages and backgrounds: the fight for

child survival.

UNICEF’s Next Generation — a diverse

new coalition of young professionals, ages

21 to 40 — has demonstrated an energetic

commitment to UNICEF’s mission and to

the goal of putting a stop to preventable

child deaths.

Founded in July of last year and led by

a 31-member steering committee chaired

by Jenna Bush Hager, the group raises both

awareness and funds for a range of projects

to help meet the most urgent needs facing

the world’s children. Next Generation mem-

bers have already raised $410,000 to support

UNICEF’s lifesaving programs and have

vigorously advocated to improve the lives

of vulnerable children. Funds raised include

$175,000 for the members’ first project — sup-

porting the use of a revolutionary nutritional

supplement known as Sprinkles. Available

in single-dose packets, the powder contains

essential micronutrients — including iron,

zinc, iodine, vitamins A, C, and D, and folic

acid — and can be sprinkled on any food.

The initiative will greatly assist UNICEF’s

efforts to combat malnutrition in Guatemala.

Next Generation members got an up-

close look at UNICEF’s invaluable work in

Guatemala when they traveled to the Central

American country in February. They visited

the San Andres Xecul Clinic, where some of

their donations were enabling the facility to

hire and train much-needed staff, provide

measuring equipment, and continue to sup-

ply families with Sprinkles.

While mothers waited in line at the clinic

for their monthly packets of Sprinkles, Next

Generation members asked them what they

thought about the micronutrient powder.

Several mothers told them that because of the

supplement, their children now have more

energy and more appetite — and they don’t

get sick as often as they used to. But they also

said that, unfortunately, there are days when

there aren’t enough Sprinkles for everyone.

With the help of UNICEF’s Next Generation,

that will hopefully soon change.

Next Generation has recently pledged to

raise $50,000 for emergency relief efforts in

Haiti before June 30 and has also launched a

general membership drive. A $500 donation

allows young adults (ages 21– 40) to join the

Next Generation giving circle. Members will

be able to participate in discussions, panels,

and other U.S. Fund events; have access to

UNICEF officials and experts on children’s

issues; and get updates on the fight for child

survival. Most importantly, those who join

Next Generation will help save and improve

the lives of children throughout the world.

To learn more, please visit unicefusa.org/nextgeneration

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UNICEF’s Next Generation Making a Big Impact

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d o N o r A C t I v I t I E s At h o m E A N d A b r o A dMaking a Difference

Dallas-area members of the U.S. Fund’s Southwest Regional Board Jill Cochran, Nancy Kurkowski, Joyce Goss, and Gowri Sharma (l.-r.) co-hosted a reception featuring Iron Chef Champion and UNICEF Tap Project restaurant partner, Kent Rathbun.

UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee members Lauren Bush (l.) and David Lauren with Caryl M. Stern at the Ralph Lauren shopping event in New York. Proceeds supported UNICEF’s Haiti relief efforts.

On a recent parent-child field trip, teens Jack Serrino, Annie Opel, Rainie Opel, and Eva Nip (l.-r.) visited UNICEF in Panama.

New England Board member Willow Shire with children in the Andean community of Tacopaya, Bolivia, during a March field visit.

Shelly Kim and Southern California Regional Board member David Kim (both left) hosted a World Water Week reception in May for Brendan Doyle, UNICEF’s Chief of Humanitarian and Transition Support Programs, shown here with his wife, Regina Doyle.

National Board member Jim Walton (l.) and his wife Sarah (r.), a Southeast Region-al Board member, hosted a reception at their home to support UNICEF’s Haiti re-lief efforts. Matt Fleming (second from right) presented a check for $25,000 from the Beaver Family Foundation. Also pictured are Caryl M. Stern, Stephen Kennedy, and NBA star Dikembe Mutombo. Sadly, Matt passed away recently. He will be remembered for his kindness, humor, and compassion for children everywhere.

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The U.S. Fund organized a unique

parent-child field visit to give families

an opportunity to experience UNICEF’s

work together. In March, U.S. Fund staff

traveled to Panama with four remarkable

donors and their children. Mark and

Robin Opel, whose teenaged daughters

Rainie and Annie were with them on

the trip, provided this account.

In the dark corner of a dormitory for coffee

plantation workers, a boy stood holding the

hand of a little girl, both of them in tattered

clothing. A staff member from UNICEF’s

Panama office approached the boy and

asked him, do you go to school? No, he

replied. Have you ever been to school? No.

She asked, how old are you? He didn’t know.

That was an incredibly emotional moment

for us. The odds against this boy and girl are

unacceptably high. But that can change with

the help of UNICEF and its local partner,

UNICEF-supported Casa Esperanza.

Casa Esperanza is a non-governmental

organization that works with UNICEF to

fight child labor in Panama, and provide

children with education, health care, nutri-

tion, and more. That same day, we went to

a Casa Esperanza school for the children of

indigenous coffee pickers. We listened to a

fourteen-year-old boy describe how he had

been working full time, but now he was in

school. He was so proud and hopeful. He

talked about everything that UNICEF and

Casa Esperanza had done for him. We were

in awe of how education had transformed

this boy’s life. It meant going from poverty

and picking coffee to an opportunity for a

better future.

In Panama, UNICEF is targeting the

people who are invisible in this middle-

income country — the 300,000 indigenous

people, 98 percent of whom live in poverty,

and at-risk youth in urban marginalized ar-

eas. UNICEF leverages its resources, both

by working with other organizations and

building capacities within communities, as

opposed to just providing a handout. It’s

efficient in how it invests its capital to get

good results. But the key to any organiza-

tion’s effectiveness is its people. We were so

impressed by the staff from the U.S. Fund

and from UNICEF Panama. We came away

saying these are people we want to support.

We wanted to do a family field visit be-

cause of how strongly we felt about our girls

seeing — and experiencing — the kinds of

things we did in Panama. They were eigh-

teen and fifteen on this trip — old enough

to get out of their comfort zone and start to

understand the hardships of the rest of the

world and what can be done to help. It was

so much more powerful than anything we

could have done alone as parents. Our girls

have each talked about embracing philan-

thropy as a value.

Every day in Panama, we wore

UNICEF T-shirts. People would see us and

say, UNICEF, UNICEF! Worldwide, people

recognize the name and know it’s a good

organization. We knew that, but it really

struck us when we went outside of the U.S.

We came away from this trip saying we

want to do more. We’ll be talking about this

trip for the rest of our lives.

Panama

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F I E l d v I s I t


Haiti’s earthquake took away so much that cannot be reclaimed or rebuilt.It took twelve-year-old Rodrigue’s parents, both of

them, in the space of 35 seconds. It pinned seven-

teen-year-old Rachel under hundreds of pounds of

concrete, breaking her arm, and then — after she was

rescued by a neighbor — leaving her in desperate

conditions huddled under a tarp with seven other

people. It killed Yolanda’s father and also destroyed

the nine-year-old’s home and school, all in one sud-

den, terrifying instant.

For millions of Haiti’s children, the world they

knew was obliterated when the earthquake struck

on the afternoon of January 12, killing more than

220,000 people. For those who survived, the disaster

left a stark dividing line, one that harshly split their

lives into “before” and “after.” And now, more than

four months later, many children and families are

still living in makeshift tent camps, still struggling

to survive, still yearning for a trace of normalcy, still

wondering what the next day will bring.

The good news? The earthquake did not take as

much as it could have, in part because UNICEF, its

supporters, and its partners would not let it. Even

though the UNICEF office was destroyed, even

though services have been widely disrupted, even

though roads are still choked with rubble, even

Rebuilding in Haiti:Children Are the FoundationBy Adam Fifield

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F E A t U r E

$6,000,000hope for haiti Now Fund

$3,000,000 – $5,999,999larry King live’s ‘haiti: how You Can help’

$1,000,000 – $2,999,9991199sEIU United healthcare Workers Eastthe Charles Engelhard Foundation Jefferies & Companymajor league baseball (mlb)the National basketball Association (NbA)

and the National basketball Players Association (NbPA)

$500,000 – $999,999Anonymous Amgen Foundation the Carnival Foundation

Clinton bush haiti Fund GE Foundationthe safeway Foundation

$200,000 – $499,999American AirlinesAnonymous bdCoinstarColgate-Palmolive Companydelldeutsche bank First data Foundationh&m hennes & mauritz lPhess CorporationJohnson & JohnsonJ.P. morgan Korean radio broadcasting/K-mediaNational Collegiate Athletic Association

(NCAA)

New Yorkers for haitiUPs and the UPs FoundationWilliam J. Clinton Foundation

$100,000 – $199,999Anonymous baupost Group, llCthe boston Celticsbroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIdsChegg Inc.the Clorox Company FoundationCovington & burling llPI-Kuan tao UsA and Chung te buddhist

Association of New York mrs. lona l. Jupiter Pierre J. Falconemr. and mrs. Kevin landry Pat lanza and the lanza Family Foundation march of dimes Foundation

We would like to thank the following partners for their outstanding

though staff have lost family members and

homes of their own — UNICEF is working

around the clock to extend a lifeline of aid

to survivors (see box on page 13). Clean wa-

ter, immunizations, medicines, therapeutic

food, protec-

tion, and other

essentials are

being provided

to scores of chil-

dren and fami-

lies.

These and

other efforts

mean that a secondary wave of calamity —

in the form of a mass outbreak of disease or

deadly spike in malnutrition — has so far

been averted. Lives that would otherwise

have been claimed in the earthquake’s af-

termath were, instead, saved.

This would not have happened, of course,

without the support of donors. The swift

and phenomenal generosity of UNICEF’s

U.S. supporters — who have contributed

more than $65 million toward relief efforts

— has been critical to success on the ground

in Haiti, says U.S. Fund for UNICEF Presi-

dent and CEO Caryl M. Stern.

“The immediacy with which we received

support was incredible,” Stern reports. “Our

donors enabled UNICEF to respond quickly

and effectively to one of the most daunting

emergencies we have ever faced.”

A BetteR, SAFeR PlACe FoR CHIlDReNNow, as the long-term recovery phase be-

gins, UNICEF is still meeting urgent needs

while also supporting Haiti as it charts a

course for the

months and

years ahead.

UNICEF be-

lieves that chil-

dren must be at

the center of the

rebuilding pro-

cess and have a say over their own future.

Before the earthquake, many children in

Haiti were already facing a crisis, deprived

of basic health care, adequate food, clean

water, and the chance to go to school. One

in every 13 children was dying before the

age of five; over 30 percent of children un-

der five were chronically malnourished; up

Our donors enabled UNICEFto respond quickly and effectively to one

of the most daunting emergencieswe have ever faced.

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the mayor’s Fund to Advance New York Citythe merck Company Foundation the mobile Giving FoundationNational hockey league (Nhl)Pfizer Incthe samuel dalembert Foundation time Warner Inc.United states tennis Association (UstA)

$50,000 – $99,9991/sphene (International) limitedAlmod diamonds, ltd.the Ann and Jerry moss Foundationthe Annie E. Casey Foundation bAPs Charitiesbliss World llCbloomberg, l.P.the bruce t. halle Family Foundationthe Carmax Foundation

Cengage learningthe Chrysler Foundationmr. and mrs. richard C. dresdaleEastman Chemical Co Foundation Incmr. and mrs. richard Fant ms. sandra A. Frazier Global Infrastructure Partnersmr. ha Q. haumr. richard hirayamathe Juice Plus+ Children’s Foundation, Inc.Kawasaki Good times Foundationlegal sea Foods, Inc.marathon oil Corporation Alyssa J. milanomonavieNECo Foundation (National Ethnic Coalition

of organizations)the New York blood Center

Kim and Jim Pallottathe Prudential Foundationthe Purnima Puri and richard r. barrera

Family Foundation mr. sal randazzothe salvation Army / American Electric Power

Emergency disaster relief Fundsony Corporation of Americassm health Caredr. and mrs. randall sterkel stryker Corporationtory burch llCWadsworth brothers Constructionmr. and mrs. deron m. Williams Yahoo! Employee Foundation, an advised fund

of silicon valley Community Foundation

Zappos.com

contributions in support of UNICEF’s work to help Haiti’s children.


to 200,000 children were reportedly exploit-

ed as domestic servants.

As plans for a new Haiti begin to take

shape, UNICEF sees a chance to make

children’s lives safer and better than they

were before the earthquake — to ensure

that more children are healthy, nourished,

and protected, and that

more children can go

to school. “There are

a lot of opportunities

and open doors for

us to be able to make

a difference with donors’ contributions,”

says UNICEF Communications Specialist

Roshan Khadivi.

BACk to SCHoolThe earthquake razed more than 4,000

schools, and Yolanda Senatus’ was one of

them. Located in a remote, mountainous

area outside Port-au-Prince, the building

is now a sprawling jumble of crushed con-

crete and scattered paper. The nine-year-old

also lost much more: her father was killed,

her home destroyed.

On a sunny day in late February about

a month after the

earthquake, Yolanda

was singing, draw-

ing, and playing with

her friends. It was the

first day of class inside

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the generosity you have shown haiti’s

children and families continues to inspire

us. donations have rolled in for months —

from the $6 million we received thanks to

the hugely successful “hope for haiti Now:

A Global benefit for Earthquake relief” to

nickels from schoolchildren who wanted

to give what they could to help their peers

in Port-au-Prince. As of this writing, you

have contributed more than $65 million so

that UNICEF can save lives imperiled by

the earthquake and help with long-term

recovery.

so many people came together to sup-

port those affected by this tragedy. Within

days of the earthquake, a broad coalition of

New York City politicians, members of the

haitian community, and other caring New

Yorkers created New Yorkers for haiti —

under the leadership of manhattan borough

President scott m. stringer and the haitian

roundtable — which held a dynamic fund-

raiser and eventually generated more than

$200,000. they and a wide range of faith-

based and cultural organizations — includ-

ing donors from the muslim, Korean, Chi-

nese, Greek orthodox, Indian, haitian, and

Jewish communities — continue to raise

money in support of UNICEF’s haiti work,

as do so many other partners.

Korean radio broadcasting rallied its

generous listeners, who have pledged over

$210,000. safeway also spurred donations,

raising more than $800,000 for the U.s.

Fund for UNICEF through a customer do-

nation program at checkouts in the U.s.

and Canada. huge numbers of corpora-

tions and organizations galvanized sup-

porters, and channeled their overwhelm-

ing desire to help haitians by providing the

financial support to assist UNICEF with its

lifesaving work.

Enthusiastic UNICEF supporters have

flocked to haiti-related events throughout

the country. In boston, the U.s. Fund held

“A Night for haiti” to honor the boston Celt-

ics with the Children’s Champion Award for

their off-court efforts on behalf of haiti’s

children. the night included a performance

by r&b group boyz II men as well as an

auction and yielded more than $750,000 for

UNICEF’s haiti relief efforts. board mem-

bers and U.s. Fund partners have held

events in houston, dallas, Atlanta, los An-

geles, Chicago, and san Juan, Puerto rico.

At many events, including a recent gather-

ing in san Francisco, U.s. Fund for UNICEF

President and CEo Caryl m. stern spoke

about her trip to haiti, where she witnessed

UNICEF’s tenacious efforts to save lives.

We wish we could individually acknowl-

edge every donor in these pages. the fact

that the sheer number of you prevents

it speaks to the immense generosity so

many have shown to the haitian people.

We are incredibly touched, and are deep-

ly grateful to each and every one of you.

on behalf of haiti’s children, we cannot

thank you enough.

Our Donors Continue to Help Haiti’s Children


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It’s really about sleuthing —being part child protection

officer, part detective.

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FASt FACtS UNICeF’s Haiti Response

WAtER: 1.2 million people receiving water every day

HEALtH: 134,000 peoplereached with emergency health kits

NUtRItION: 126 therapeutic feeding centers receiving support

IMMUNIZAtION:More than 900,000 reached

MALARIA PREvENtION: 400,000anti-malaria bed nets supplied

EDUCAtION: 200,000education kits distributed to children and teachers, with an additional 520,000 kits on the way

FAMILy REUNIFICAtION: 1,341 unaccompanied children registered; 156 reunited with relatives

PSyCHOSOCIAL SUPPORt AND CHILD SAFEty: 55,000 children cared for in child-friendly spaces

Note: these statistics represent only a sample of UNICEF’s relief work in haiti and, in some cases, also reflect UNICEF’s collaboration with partners. to give to UNICEF’s haiti relief efforts, please visit unicefusa.org/haitiquake.

a new tent school that had been set up by

UNICEF. Since the area is barely accessible

by road, the tent and educational supplies

were flown in by helicopter and then hand-

carried over a mile to the site. UNICEF also

erected a temporary health clinic nearby.

The school is allowing Yolanda and other

children to continue their education, but

it is doing something else, too — provid-

ing a respite from grief and despair, a place

where they can be kids.

“This school gives them a sense that

things will be OK again,” says UNICEF’s

Roshan Khadivi, who visited the school

and interviewed Yolanda.

Returning children to the classroom is a

cornerstone of recovery. UNICEF is work-

ing to get 200,000 children back to school

in the hardest-hit areas. In addition to sup-

plying tents and educational materials,

UNICEF is providing schools with water

and sanitation facilities and is working with

the Haitian government to develop stan-

dards for school reconstruction.

A FAtHeR AND DAUgHteR ReUNIteDSterling Vincent was lost. After the earth-

quake, the five-year-old, her sister, and father

had been staying with her aunt in a Port-au-

Prince camp for displaced people. One day,

after Sterling’s father left for work, her aunt

sent her to buy bread. She didn’t come back.

Children who became separated from

their families after the earthquake remain

in an extremely perilous situation, at risk of

abuse, exploitation, and child trafficking.

Fortunately, a kind family found Sterling

and cared for her in their earthquake-bat-

tered house. A UNICEF field worker soon

learned about her.

At first, the girl was unable to remember

much. A UNICEF child protection specialist

tried a simple but effective technique to jog

her memory — she asked Sterling to draw,

and then to talk about what she was draw-

ing. Sterling sketched a cemetery and a

church. Soon, details about her family trick-

led out — enough for the UNICEF team to

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A global organization of executives and

professionals dedicated to advancing the

status of women and girls worldwide, Zonta

International has been a U.S. Fund for UNICEF

partner since 1972 and has supported a wide

array of critical UNICEF programs. Recently,

the organization contributed $600,000 to

expand lifesaving health services for HIV-

positive mothers in Rwanda. Beryl Sten is the

President of Zonta International.

I grew up after World War II in a small

village in the south of Sweden. I spent a lot

of time with my grandmother, who was a

remarkable woman. She would say to me,

“You should always be free — don’t give up

your freedom.” And she preached the im-

portance of education, responsibility, and

justice. I think she had a lot of influence on

me throughout my life.

I have been successful in my career, and

helping other people has been automatic. To

me, it is natural that if someone needs my

help, they should get it. Zonta was the per-

fect fit for me — the organization empha-

sizes giving and also empowering women

and girls around the world.

Twenty-five years ago, a member of Zonta

called me and asked me to go to a meeting.

At first, I was reluctant. But this woman

didn’t give up. I went to the meeting, and I

am so glad I did.

Zonta has always been connected to the

United Nations, and that’s how we got in-

volved with UNICEF. UNICEF places great

value on gender equality, and it looks at

the whole picture, at the woman and at the

child. Because if the mother is not saved and

helped, the child suffers so much more. One

example is the campaign against maternal

and neonatal tetanus. Immunizing women

of childbearing age against tetanus is so

cheap, and it does so much to help mothers

and newborns survive. Zonta has funded

UNICEF tetanus elimination efforts in both

Afghanistan and Nepal.

In 2008, Zonta partnered with UNICEF

to provide HIV-positive women in Rwanda

with health services, including treatment to

prevent transmission of the virus to their

unborn babies. It’s important to us that we

work in countries where the government

is committed and engaged, and that was

the situation with Rwanda. UNICEF had

a strong relationship with the government,

and they were working together to address

this problem.

Since our donations are coming out of

the pockets of Zontians, we appreciate that

the U.S. Fund for UNICEF always reports

back to us on our achievements and how

our money is spent. The overhead is also

very low, and we know those donations are

being used effectively.

Why We Partner: Beryl Sten and Zonta

P A r t N E r P r o F I l E s

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Adult literacy students attend a session on HIV prevention In Rwanda.

E v e r y C h i l d N o . 2 , 2 0 1 0

NBA Philadelphia 76ers player Samuel Dalem-

bert, who was born in Haiti, has been a long-

time supporter of UNICEF’s work. Following

the recent earthquake, he gave $100,000 for

UNICEF’s relief efforts in Haiti through his

Samuel Dalembert Foundation. After rallying

his fans to con-

tribute as well,

he matched their

donations with

an additional

gift of more

than $22,000.

On January

12, I went to

practice and

then spent

time with a

kids’ basket-

ball league that the 76ers supports. The

whole time my phone was in the car. When

I finally looked at it, I had about 50 mes-

sages saying, “Have you been watching

the news about Haiti?” Thank God most of

my family was okay. The house I grew up

in collapsed. But compared to what other

families went through, it wasn’t that bad.

I didn’t grow up thinking I would be

a basketball

player, make it

to the NBA, and

have this beauti-

ful life. As a kid,

one of my main

goals was to get

a pair of shoes.

Or to know how

it felt to have a

refrigerator —

to open it up

and actually

have juice and milk to drink. I was fortu-

nate — some of my friends were starving.

I grew up with my grandmother, who’s al-

ways been a very generous person. People

would come and tell her their kid hadn’t

eaten for a while and she would say, okay,

let me give you something to take home.

And when she gives, she doesn’t expect

anything in return — it’s just the right thing

to do. Watching her had a big impact on me.

I started my foundation because I feel

that as long as I’m in the spotlight, I should

use that power to help kids. UNICEF is a

model for me. There are plenty of organiza-

tions out there, but UNICEF does so much

for children all over the world. If I can do

even a fraction of what they’re doing, I

could make such a great difference back

home. Another thing I really cherish and

admire about UNICEF — every dollar peo-

ple donated to Haiti went to Haiti. You can-

not say the same about other organizations.

I look forward to continuing my strong

partnership with UNICEF. By working with

and supporting UNICEF, I can make more

of a difference in Haiti than if I struck out on

my own. I worry that, by next year, people

are going to forget about Haiti. I want to

make sure that I keep it alive for everyone.

P A r t N E r P r o F I l E s

Why I Partner: Samuel Dalembert

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Samuel Dalembert presenting Caryl M. Stern with a check for $100,000.

...every dollarpeople donated to Haiti went to Haiti. You cannot say the same about other

organizations.


Honorary Co-ChairsGeorge H.W. BushJimmy CarterWilliam J. Clinton

Chair EmeritusHugh Downs

ChairAnthony Pantaleoni

Vice ChairPeter Lamm

PresidentCaryl M. Stern

SecretaryGary M. Cohen

TreasurerEdward G. Lloyd

Honorary DirectorsSusan V. BerresfordJames H. CareyMarvin J. GirouardAnthony LakeJohn C. Whitehead

Honorary MembersJoy GreenhouseHelen G. JacobsonSusan C. McKeeverLester Wunderman

DirectorsAndrew D. BeerDaniel J. BruttoNelson ChaiGary M. CohenMary Callahan ErdoesPamela FioriDolores Rice GahanBruce Scott GordonVincent John HemmerPeter LammTéa LeoniBob ManoukianAnthony PantaleoniAmy L. RobbinsHenry S. SchleiffKathi P. SeifertCaryl M. SternJim WaltonSherrie Rollins Westin

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start searching for them.

Sterling led the team as they walked for

miles, wending through traffic and debris.

Finally, after making her way up a rubble-

strewn hill, Sterling found the camp where

she had been living a month earlier. Her

aunt and older sister were still there — but

not her father, whom she was desperate to

see again. Luckily, her aunt had his tele-

phone number. Sterling used a UNICEF

worker’s cell phone to call him.

Because of a bad connection, it was hard

to tell who was on the line. But a half hour

later, a skinny man in a baseball cap ap-

peared at the bottom of the hill. Tears filled

his eyes. Sterling yelled “Daddy!” and ran

into the man’s arms (see photo p. 13). Her

father had gotten her call — and although

she hadn’t heard him, he had heard her.

UNICEF staff asked for the man’s identi-

fication and verified that he was, without

question, Sterling’s father.

Sterling’s story shows how much per-

sistence and skill are required to trace the

family members of unaccompanied chil-

dren. “It’s really about sleuthing — being

part child protection officer, part detective,”

says UNICEF Senior Communications Spe-

cialist Kent Page. “Family tracing requires a

lot of investigative footwork.”

In Haiti, this sleuthing continues. As of

this writing, UNICEF has helped register

1,341 unaccompanied children and reunite

156 with relatives, as well as train over 150

caseworkers on family tracing procedures.

FoR tHe loNg HAUlThe challenges are gargantuan, even in the

short-term: continuing to ensure clean wa-

ter and adequate sanitation for displaced

populations; fending off disease outbreaks;

protecting vulnerable children; and keeping

girls and women safe from sexual violence

in camps — to name a few.

But the dedication of UNICEF staff is

unyielding. A UNICEF driver in Haiti lost

three children in the earthquake but con-

tinued coming to work each day — so he

could save other children. There is simply

no way UNICEF will give up or slow down,

no matter what stands in its path.

The fierce resilience of Haiti’s people

— including its children — helps fuel

UNICEF’s resolve. UNICEF’s Kent Page re-

calls what an inspiring eleven-year-old girl

said when asked if she wanted to return to

school: “‘Yes, I want to go back,’ she said.

We asked her why. And she said, ‘My coun-

try is broken, and I want to fix it.’”

Legacy Societythe U.S. Fund

for UNICEF

Recognizing Those Who Have Invested In the Future of the World’s Children

“my husband and I traveled extensively and witnessed firsthand the plight of children living in impoverished countries throughout the world. the children of haiti were especially close to our hearts, as we spent several months each year in the Caribbean. We believe children are the innocent, helpless victims of war, preventable disease, and other ills, and that UNICEF is the most effective organization in relieving their suffering.

Thus we bequeathed the balance of our estate to UNICEF.”

to learn more about how you can create a legacy of life for future generationsof children, please contact Karen metzger toll-free at (866) 486-4233,

or email [email protected]

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