UNICEF UK Achievements 2009

UNICEF UK 

ACHIEVEMENTS 2009

ACHIEVEMENTS 

2009 

We committed £50 million to programmes for children worldwide. 

We raised £3.2 million for our Unite for Children, Unite against 

AIDS campaign. In addition, we launched Live free from HIV, 

focusing on preventing the spread of HIV among young people. 

We expanded International Inspiration, the international social 

legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to 

Bangladesh, Jordan, Malaysia, Mozambique, South Africa, and 

Trinidad and Tobago. Programmes continued in Azerbaijan, Brazil, 

India, Mozambique, Palau, and Zambia. We agreed with Ghana, 

Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey to start work in 2010. 

We refocused our work on realising child rights at home and 

abroad, leading to the launch of the Put it Right initiative in early 

2010. We also launched a pilot of our Child Friendly Communities 

programme, aimed at realising and embedding child rights at local 

level throughout the UK. 

We continued to highlight the impact of climate change on 

children, taking part in the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. 

We enabled four young people from the UK to join children from 

45 other nations at the UNICEF-organised Children’s Climate 

Change Forum. The Forum presented a global declaration to 

world leaders at the main Summit. 

We developed Carbon Positive, a groundbreaking scheme that 

raises funds to help children in poorer nations adapt to their 

changing climate.

UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation 

working for children and their rights. 

UNICEF works with families, local 

communities, partners and governments 

in more than 190 countries to help every 

child realise their full potential. 

UNICEF UK raises funds for UNICEF’s 

emergency and development work around 

the world and advocates for lasting change 

for children worldwide. This includes, for 

example, working to change government 

policies and practices that are detrimental 

to child rights in the UK and internationally. 

Two boys sit on UNBICEF school kits at a home for 

tsunami-affected children in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, 

south India. The facility provides care, shelter and 

basic education for more than 50 orphans and other 

vulnerable children. Tamil Nadu was one of the areas 

worst affected by the devastating tsunami in 2004. 

Five years on, UNICEF continues to protect children, 

and help rebuild health services, schools, water and 

sanitation systems.

CONTENTS 

HEALTH 

CHILDHOOD 

EDUCATION 

FAIRNESS 

VOICE 

AIDS 

Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS 

CLIMATE CHANGE 

EMERGENCIES 

LONDON 2012 

YOUR UNICEF 

UK WORK 

MONEY 

THANK YOU 

HAITI 

Every child has the right to be healthy 

Every child has the right to a childhood 

Every child has the right to an education 

Every child has the right to be treated fairly 

Every child has the right to be heard 

International Inspiration 

Features on supporters 

Baby Friendly, Rights Respecting Schools, Child Friendly 

Where your money goes 

January 2010 earthquake 

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Introduction 

The global economic crisis is having a shattering impact on 

the world’s children, making UNICEF UK’s work even more 

urgent and vital. 

In 2009, deepening poverty and food scarcity claimed the 

lives of children from Kenya to Bangladesh. For me, the 

16-year-old girl I met on a visit to UNICEF programmes in 

the Philippines embodied the human cost. Her dad used to 

work in a factory making rope, but lost his job. Donna was 

in tears as she told me her broken dreams. She had hoped 

to rescue her family from poverty by completing school, but 

now Donna was sure she would have to leave education 

and find work. 

The year marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention 

on the Rights of the Child, which promised a better life 

for every child. We have made progress in the past 20 

years. For instance, the number of children dying before 

their fifth birthday has fallen by more than 25 per 

cent. However, millions of children continue to die from 

preventable causes. Millions more do not go to school, 

or do not have food, shelter and clean water. Children 

are suffering from exploitation, violence, abuse and 

discrimination. The promises made 20 years ago are still not 

being delivered and the voices of children and young people 

are not being heard. 

David Bull, 

UNICEF UK Executive Director 

HIV receiving treatment to help their babies be born free 

from the virus increase from 10 per cent to 45 per cent in 

low- and middle-income countries. 

We supported UK children to attend the Children’s Climate 

Change Forum and the Junior 8 Summit, helping children 

have their right to a voice on matters that affect them. 

UNICEF UK also developed Carbon Positive, an innovative 

scheme to mobilise money and support to enable vulnerable 

communities to adapt to the effects of climate change. 

During 2009, UNICEF UK helped children caught in 

emergencies in 17 countries and regions. Whether it was 

conflict in Sri Lanka or Sudan, earthquakes and typhoons in 

Southeast Asia, or malnutrition in East Africa, our supporters 

enabled UNICEF to respond rapidly and effectively to 

protect children. 

In 2010, children will continue to feel the impact of the 

global financial crisis. They will continue to be hit first 

and worst by food and water shortages as well as natural 

disasters. UNICEF UK, backed by our supporters, will 

continue to seek to put it right. 

David Bull, UNICEF UK Executive Director 

This is wrong. 

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, UNICEF UK 

committed £50 million to help put it right for children 

worldwide. For instance, to ensure children’s right to survive 

and to be healthy, we provided nearly 34 million tetanus 

vaccines. To protect children from abuse and exploitation, 

we supported 12,000 children every month at camps in 

the Democratic Republic of Congo. To help children go to 

school, we provided basic education for more than 160,000 

working children in Bangladesh. Since the launch of our 

Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign in 2005, 

we have seen the percentage of expectant mothers with 

Dalisay, age 6, lives on the 

streets of Manila, Philippines, 

with her brother and sister. 

UNICEF helps street children 

like Dalisay go to school. 

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ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 1

children’s right to health 

Six-month-old Ali Raza receives 

treatment for severe malnutrition. 

In 2009, UNICEF set up feeding 

centres and provided emergency 

nutrition for thousands of children 

like Ali in Pakistan. 

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ACHIEVEMENTS 2008 

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UNICEF as a global force 

Every child has the right to survive and be healthy. Yet every hour 

of every day, more than 1,000 children under the age of five die. 


Your support helps UNICEF put it right by: 

vaccinating against illnesses such as measles and polio 

providing nutritious food and clean water 

supplying mosquito nets to prevent malaria 

helping mothers receive good health care during pregnancy. 

NEPAL : MALNUTRITION 

Nearly half of all Nepalese children under the age 

of five are underweight. This is mainly because 

of iron deficiency in their diet. To combat this, 

UNICEF UK supported the ‘Sprinkles campaign’, 

which provided sachets of essential vitamins and 

minerals for more than 20,000 children. 

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children’s right to health 

HEALTH 

How UNICEF UK helped 

Your support helped UNICEF UK: 

deliver 44,000 mosquito nets to women and children in Nigeria 

help prevent malnutrition for 200,000 children in Ethiopia 

treat 200,000 children for diarrhoea in Togo 

provide almost 34 million vaccines to prevent the deaths of 

many thousands of mothers and babies from tetanus 

help to build a hospital for 250,000 people in Korem, Ethiopia 

support childcare centres in Malawi, providing a place to eat, 

learn and play for 300,000 children under the age of five 

provide sachets of vitamins and minerals for 20,000 children in Nepal 

and much more … 

A Nigerian child with a 

mosquito net provided 

by UNICEF UK. 

IN FOCUS : MALNUTRITION IN ETHIOPIA 

“I am in trouble. I have 

not had anything to eat yet 

today. I have nothing.” 

Almaz Kare, Ethiopia 

Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of child mortality in the world: one in 

nine Ethiopian children dies before their fifth birthday. To prevent these tragic 

deaths, UNICEF UK is helping to build health clinics in villages to monitor 

nutrition and make sure children at risk receive the earliest possible treatment 

to prevent malnutrition. In 2009, we helped reach more than 200,000 children 

in four regions of Ethiopia, monitoring children’s growth, preventing anaemia 

and promoting breastfeeding. 

Our supporters also supported the building of Korem Hospital. Korem was at 

the epicentre of the devastating famine in 1984–85. This hospital will provide 

health services for 250,000 people. 

“Before, my daughter’s body was swollen all over,” says Almaz. “Now, I am 

feeding her three times a day and she is much better. There is no more swelling.” 

2009 Ethiopia drought, see Emergencies, page 31 


ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 

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Tetanus is a leading killer of 

mothers and infants in Angola. 

In 2009, UNICEF UK provided 

nearly 34 million vaccines to help 

end this disease worldwide. 

One of the 300,000 vulnerable 

children helped by UNICEF UK 

at childcare centres in Malawi. 

Rashida, age two, is suffering 

from malaria and malnutrition. 

She is receiving care at 

Specialist Hospital, Bauchi, 

northern Nigeria. 

IN FOCUS : ENDING MALARIA IN NIGERIA AND INDONESIA 

Every 45 seconds, a child dies of malaria. Yet, malaria is easily preventable 

with a simple mosquito net. 

Each year, malaria kills around 250,000 children in Nigeria. Less than one 

in ten infants and pregnant mothers sleep under a net. To tackle this, 

UNICEF UK supplied more than 44,000 mosquito nets for pregnant women 

and children under the age of five in Alimosho. 

“If he had slept under a 

mosquito net, he would not 

have caught malaria.” 

Aliya, whose 18-month-old son 

died of malaria 

In South Halmahera, Indonesia, in 2003, malaria killed more than 200 people 

and infected 4,000 others, mostly children under the age of five. By 2009, 

a UNICEF UK-supported programme saw no deaths from malaria and cases 

drop by a third. We provided mosquito nets, enabled rapid diagnosis and 

treatment of malaria, and helped build drainage and sanitation facilities. 

“Now that we have nets, I don’t worry when we go to sleep. I don’t worry 

about getting bitten by mosquitoes. We can all sleep peacefully,” says Aliya. 

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children’s right to childhood 

CHILDHOOD 

“At work I sometimes hurt my 

hands, which is really painful. Now 

that I can read and count, I can 

check my earnings are correct.” 

Shumon, age 13, works at an 

aluminium factory in Dhaka, 

Bangladesh. With support from 

UNICEF, he has gone to school to 

learn to read, write and do maths. 

See Shumon’s photo-story at 

unicef.org.uk/putitright


Every child has the right to a safe childhood, protected from violence, 

abuse and exploitation. Yet there are 150 million child labourers worldwide, 

1.2 million children trafficked each year and 250,000 child soldiers. 



helping children leave the streets or dangerous work and go to school 

demobilising child soldiers and reintegrating them into the community 

reuniting trafficked children with their families 

providing care for abused and exploited children. 

SREYNET : AT THE CROSSROADS 

Sreynet, age 10, has lived all her life on the streets 

of Cambodia. She sleeps next to a busy crossroads 

with her mother and two-year-old stepsister. 

Sreynet has to beg or scavenge for food. 

Thanks to UNICEF support, Sreynet receives food, 

a shower and help to go to school. 

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children’s right to childhood 

CHILDHOOD 



reduce the number of abandoned newborn babies by more than 40 per cent 

in the last six years in Ukraine, by funding 16 Mother and Child Centres 

help 934 survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo 

improve foster care in Bulgaria, aiming to recruit foster parents 

for 3,000 children 

provide free basic education for more than 160,000 working children 

in Bangladesh 

help to protect 12,000 children every month at camps in the 

Democratic Republic of Congo 


IN FOCUS : CHILD LABOUR IN BANGLADESH 

“Sometimes I cut my hands and 

legs on broken glass or tins. 

I don’t want to do this work.” 

Aklima, age 13, rubbish dump worker 

There are nearly 8 million child workers in Bangladesh, many in dangerous 

work such as brick making or scavenging through rubbish. Low wages and 

high unemployment means that many families depend on their children’s 

earnings to survive. Most of these children have lost their childhood, trapped in 

low skilled, poorly paid jobs that reinforce the vicious cycle of poverty. 

To put it right, UNICEF has established schools in areas with large populations 

of working children. The school day is two-and-a-half hours, so that children 

can continue to support their families. With your support, in 2009 UNICEF UK 

helped provide free basic education for more than 160,000 working children 

in Bangladesh. All the children are now able to read and write. We also helped 

train teachers and provided education materials for over 6,500 centres. 

Aklima now goes to a UNICEF-supported school in the afternoon. 

“It’s good to go to school. We study. Everyone sits together. We draw 

pictures and write Bangla.” 



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Thanks to UNICEF UK supporters, 

Borka and his mum Natalia 

found support at a Mother and 

Child Centre in Kiev, Ukraine. 

Sohel, age 12, works every 

day at a bakery in Dhaka to 

support his family. He is not 

able to go to school. 

Lumo [name changed], age 

14, is a former child solider. 

She was forced to carry 

weapons and stay awake 

for days at a time. She was 

raped by a soldier, eventually 

becoming his ‘wife’. Lumo 

is now receiving medical 

and psychological care at a 

UNICEF-supported centre. 

IN FOCUS : WAR AND RAPE IN THE CONGO 

Many thousands of women and child survivors of the conflict in the eastern 

Democratic Republic of Congo have fled their homes and become separated 

from their families. They are especially vulnerable to sexual violence and 

exploitation as well as abduction and recruitment into armed groups. 

Women and children subjected to rape and sexual violence are at high risk of 

contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Children abducted by 

armed groups have not only witnessed violence, killings, torture and abuse; 

they have also had to participate in such acts against their will. This is a crime. 

“He took me by force and then 

escaped to the forest. I cried out 

in pain until the neighbours 

heard me and took me to the 

hospital. But that I don’t 

remember, I fainted.” 

Sifa [name changed], age 

8, abducted and repeatedly 

raped by a soldier. 

Thanks to your support, Sifa has received medical care and counselling. She is 

traumatised and hurt, barely speaking to anyone. It may be years before she 

can live a normal life again, but the healing process has begun. 

“As soon as I feel better, I want to go back home and go to school. My parents 

cried so much after the attack. I want them to be happy and proud of me,” says Sifa. 

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children’s right to education 

EDUCATION 

A girl studies at a UNICEFsupported 

school at Omdurman, 

Sudan. Until recently, only one 

girl in 100 completed primary 

school in Sudan. UNICEF is 

helping to put this right.


Every child has the right to education, yet more than 100 million 

children do not get the chance to go to primary school. 



building schools 

providing clean water and toilets in schools 

training teachers 

supplying textbooks and stationery. 

PAKISTAN : FROM STREET TO SCHOOL 

“ I walk mile after mile every day, 

scavenging for metals near workshops. 

Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes 

not.” UNICEF UK is helping child 

workers go to school in Pakistan. 

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children’s right to education 

EDUCATION 



provide leadership training for 19,000 young women in rural India 

support 6,900 indigenous children to help them return to school in Mexico 

set up centres for more than 1,700 bonded child labourers in Pakistan 

train teachers and supply school materials to help 56,000 children 

in flood-prone areas of Zambia 

improve school facilities for 12,000 children in Rajasthan, India 

deliver education materials for almost every school in southern Sudan 

establish child-friendly schools for 5,500 children in Tigray, Ethiopia 

construct 40 temporary schools for 2,000 children at camps in Puntland, Somalia 


IN FOCUS : SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR SOUTHERN SUDAN 

“My mother told me 

that she wanted to go 

to school when she was 

younger, but her parents 

arranged for her to get 

married.” 

Mary, age 17, Sudan 

“I hope to inspire 

more girls to 

come to school.” 

Mary is one of just 5 

girls in a class of 145. 

Sudan is the largest and poorest country in Africa. Southern Sudan is only just 

beginning to emerge from more than 20 years of conflict. One of the greatest 

casualties has been the education of Sudan’s children. More than one million 

children (mostly girls) in southern Sudan do not get the chance to go to 

primary school. 

This is wrong. In 2006, UNICEF helped launch the Go to School initiative so 

that these children achieve their fundamental right to education. In 2009, 

UNICEF UK helped provide and distribute basic school supplies across 

southern Sudan, the main element of Go to School. These supplies included 

textbooks, exercise books, stationery and sports kits. 

Go to School has already achieved remarkable results. Today, there are around 

1.6 million children in school, up sharply from 340,000 during the war. We 

must do more. UNICEF is planning to develop 2,500 child friendly schools in 

Sudan, but we need your support. 



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Suku, age 16, studies at a 

UNICEF supported school 

in southern Sudan. Fewer 

than one in four girls go to 

secondary school in Sudan. 

Bali, age 17, studies at her home in 

rural Rajasthan, India. Bali’s parents 

arranged for her to be married at 

age 13, but she persuaded them 

to cancel the wedding. 

Two students from Mexico 

City describe the discrimination 

they encounter from education 

authorities in Mexico. In 2009, 

UNICEF UK helped to improve 

the education outcomes for 

6,900 indigenous children 

in Mexico. 

IN FOCUS : EMERGENCY EDUCATION IN ZAMBIA 

Zambia is one of the poorest nations on Earth: two out of three people 

live on less than £1 a day. More than 300,000 school-age children are out 

of school and two thirds of girls do not complete primary school. Massive 

flooding in 2007 and 2008 intensified the struggle to survive. Children and 

families lost their homes, schools and crops. 

We sought to minimise the disruption to education caused by natural 

disasters at 100 schools in flood-prone areas of Zambia. We supplied basic 

education materials and sports kits for 56,000 primary schoolchildren. 

We also organised workshops on disaster preparedness for education 

officers as well as providing specialist HIV, life skills and child protection 

training for 200 teachers. 

Nyambe says, “It is nice to be back at school and I am happy that our school 

has received support. It shows that maybe I will finish my education and 

manage to be a teacher.” 

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“This year, the flooding was 

too much and the school closed 

from March to June. I got 

cholera. It was painful and 

I was treated at the clinic.” 

Nyambe, age 16 

“After starting 

school again, I 

was happy.” 

Carlos, age 11 



children’s right to fair treatment 

FAIRNESS 

There are more than 50,000 

children held in refugee camps 

in Thailand. One in ten has no 

parents. These children are at 

risk of abuse and exploitation.


All children have the same rights whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion 

or abilities. Yet every day, children suffer discrimination because they are 

poor, they are disabled or simply because they have been born a girl. 



persuading governments to end discrimination 

working to change practices that harm children 

making sure that children are registered at birth 

campaigning on issues such as child poverty 

SUDAN : GENITAL CUTTING 

“I do not want our daughters to be circumcised. It has caused 

me so many problems, and I do not want them to suffer too.” 

Amani from northern Sudan resists pressure to cut her 

daughters Donya, age 18 months, and Shimus, 4. 

The UNICEF-supported Saleema Campaign works with 

communities and religious leaders to end this harmful practice. 

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children’s right to fair treatment 

FAIRNESS 



protect 350,000 vulnerable children in Thailand 

provide medical and psychological support for 2,000 street children in Egypt 

supply winter clothes and other basic items for 3,000 infants in Georgia 

help build schools and supply education materials for 70,000 children in 

refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border 


IN FOCUS : SUPPLIES FOR FAMILIES IN GEORGIA 

“I ran away from my village 

a few days after the fighting 

started. I was pregnant at the 

time. When Mariam was 

born we needed almost 

everything for her.” 

Kristine, age 21 

In August 2008, conflict between Georgia and Russia displaced around 

138,000 people. By October 2008, some 110,000 were able to return home. 

The Government of Georgia placed the remaining 28,000 in collective 

centres and new houses. As the bitter Georgian winter drew in, the 

resettled children urgently needed winter clothes as their families had fled 

their houses without taking any belongings. The Georgian Government 

helped by giving £40 to each schoolchild. However, that left the 3,000 

youngest children, not at school, out in the cold. These children were also 

malnourished and lacked medicine and other basic items. 

UNICEF UK responded by giving cash transfers for each displaced child 

under the age of six. The families used the money to buy winter clothes, 

food and medicine. 

“It was better than the food aid we received because we needed to buy 

warm clothes and other things for baby Mariam,” says Kristine. 



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Babalu, age 15, was to be 

married to a 45-year-old man in 

rural Rajasthan, India. She wanted 

to stay at school. A community 

educator persuaded Babalu’s 

parents to cancel the wedding. 

Beaten at home, Essam 

resorted to living on the 

streets of Cairo, where he 

found help from a UNICEF 

UK-supported centre. 

Apsara [name changed], age 11, 

has special needs. She lives in 

a camp on the Thai-Myanmar 

border. Her parents tie her up 

to stop her wandering around 

the camp, where sexual abuse 

is common. 

IN FOCUS : CHILD PROTECTION IN THAILAND 

Thailand’s economy has developed rapidly, resulting in a reduction in child 

mortality and improvements in children’s health and education. However, 

not all children have benefited equally. Almost one million children of primary 

school age are not in school. Most of these children belong to ethnic 

minorities, migrant families or poor families in Thailand’s border provinces. 

UNICEF UK helped more than 350,000 of the most vulnerable and 

marginalised children by establishing a Child Protection Monitoring and 

Response System. The system will help to ensure that these children 

receive emergency care, medical treatment, counselling and family 

support services. 

Since 2005, UNICEF has also helped around 70,000 children in nine refugee 

camps along the Thai-Myanmar border to go to school. In 2009, UNICEF 

UK helped to develop child-friendly schools in the camps, provide education 

materials for the children, and train more than 1,500 teachers. 

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“We were not poor, so I 

don’t know why they sold 

me. Maybe they didn’t 

want to look after me.” 

Nida is an orphan. She was 

sold by her aunt. Nida is 

now at school. 



children’s right to be heard 

VOICE 

Alfred Malish, age 14, speaks 

about child brides on a UNICEFsponsored 

youth radio show 

in Sudan. This was one of 

a worldwide series of radio 

diary workshops supported 

by UNICEF to mark the 20th 

anniversary of the Convention 

on the Rights of the Child.


Every child has the right to a voice on matters that affect them and to 

have their views taken seriously. Without a voice, children suffer in silence. 



giving children a say in decisions that affect their lives 

ensuring that children know about their rights 

promoting children’s participation so that programmes meet their needs 

helping to ensure that children can talk about their experiences. 

UK : CHILD RIGHTS ON THE BBC 

Irene Carter (right) was one of three young 

finalists on BBC2’s The Speaker series. They 

visited UNICEF-supported projects in Malawi 

to make a programme on why children’s rights 

matter. Irene later spoke about the effects of HIV 

on children in Malawi at the House of Commons. 

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VOICE 

children’s right to be heard 



empower 27,000 young people in Kenya as part of the Kick AIDS Out of 

Kenya programme, using football to provide HIV prevention messages and 

challenge negative perceptions of women 

train and support young people from the UK at the J8 Summit in Rome 

provide backing for nationwide child radio in Mozambique with more than 

250 child producers and presenters 

support BBC2’s The Speaker final to find the best 14–18-year old 

public speaker in the UK, filming a programme on why child rights matter 


IN FOCUS : JUNIOR 8 SUMMIT IN ITALY 

“I want the G8 leaders to 

listen to what young people 

today have to say and 

include us in key decisions.” 

Sara Saleh, age 16, UK delegate to J8 

J8 takes place prior to the G8 Summit, and is a unique chance for young people 

to have their ideas heard by leaders of the eight leading industrialised nations. 

Teams of four young people from the G8 nations as well as Brazil, China, 

Egypt, India, Mexico and South Africa met in L’Aquila, Italy, to discuss climate 

change, development in Africa, and child rights. On 9 July, the J8 delegates 

presented the Rome Declaration and Action Plan to the G8 leaders, putting 

forward their ideas and recommendations for action. 

Channel Five News followed our entire J8 process – from the launch of a 

competition to find four UK representatives to the J8 Summit itself. Our J8 

team reported on their experiences for Channel Five News. 



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“I lost both of my parents to 

AIDS. It’s changed my life.” 

Zena, age 23, is part of the 

UNICEF-supported Kick AIDS 

Out of Kenya programme. 

Duncan, age 14, was voted 

Britain’s best young orator 

by BBC2’s The Speaker. 

His final speech was on 

children’s right to education. 

The UK team at J8 (Harry Phinda, 

Melika Myers, Sara Saleh, 

Birzi Saleh) meet British Prime 

Minister Gordon Brown ahead of 

the 2009 G8 Summit in Italy. 

IN FOCUS : CHILD ABUSE IN CAMBODIA 

Sexual abuse and exploitation of children – including rape, prostitution, 

pornography and trafficking – have been increasing since Cambodia began 

to open up to tourism in the early 1990s. Many children work in horrific 

conditions in Cambodia’s sex industry. One survey of 53 girls found that most 

lived in small dark rooms and served five to ten customers per day. Almost all 

had suffered physical abuse at the hands of brothel owners and customers. 

Teenage girls at The Cambodian Centre 

for the Protection of Children's RIghts, 

a sanctuary for child prostitutes rescued 

from Cambodian brothels. 

To put it right, UNICEF UK helped establish national and regional helplines 

so that children can speak confidentially about their trauma. We also helped 

provide specialist training for more than 2,800 police officers on tackling the 

sexual abuse and exploitation of children. This support aided in the rescue of 

more than 750 victims (one in four of whom was a child). It also contributed to 

the arrest of nearly 600 suspects – a 20 per cent increase on 2008. 

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AIDS 


Six-week-old Mwitwa has a dry 

blood spot test for HIV at a clinic 

in Lusaka, Zambia. UNICEF has 

supported the expansion of this 

recent method of diagnosis, 

resulting in much earlier 

identification of babies needing 

HIV treatment and care in poorer 

countries. Infants diagnosed and 

treated within the first 12 weeks 

of life are 75 per cent more likely 

to survive the virus.


Every child has the right to be as healthy as possible. Yet in 2008, nearly 

390,000 babies were born with HIV, 280,000 children died of AIDS, 

over 2 million children were living with HIV, and more than 17 million 

children had lost one or both parents to AIDS. 


UNICEF’s global campaign Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS 

has four key aims to put it right: 

prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV 

provide children with life-saving anti-retroviral medicine 

prevent new infections among young people 

protect, care for and support orphans. 

UGANDA : CHARLES 

“I carry her, feed her and put her to bed. When she 

cries I put her on my back.” Charles, age 13. 

Charles’s mother died recently of AIDS-related 

causes. Charles had to help look after his brother 

Edward (age 10), Lucy, (6), and Kaseo (6 months). 

See Charles’s photo-story at unicef.org.uk/putitright 

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AIDS 




expand services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission and for 

the early infant diagnosis and treatment of HIV in South Africa, reaching 

400,000 people in KwaZulu Natal 

provide HIV prevention education for more than 500 street children in Nigeria 

test 5,800 young people for HIV in Kenya 

train 100 peer educators to provide HIV prevention education, initially 

reaching 6,000 children in Zambia 

reach 1,600 street children at risk of or affected by HIV and AIDS in Haiti 

campaign successfully for a patent pool to increase the availability of 

HIV medicine for children 


IN FOCUS : SOUTH AFRICA 

Petse and Trudie lost their 

mother to AIDS. UNICEF UK 

helps care for the family and 

supports a safe park in Transkei 

where they can play and learn. 

South Africa has the highest burden of HIV in the world. There are 5.2 million 

people with HIV and there were more than 400,000 new infections in 2009. 

The epidemic has devastated the lives of South African children. Around 

1.4 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. 

UNICEF UK has helped to expand services for the prevention of motherto-child 

transmission. These services have reduced HIV prevalence among 

children age 2–14 from 5.6 per cent in 2002 to 2.5 per cent in 2008, meaning 

that thousands more babies were born free from HIV. We also supported 

mothers with HIV to act as counsellors in 20 health centres, which encouraged 

larger numbers of pregnant women to take an HIV test and receive treatment. 

UNICEF UK also backed South Africa’s first national vitamin A campaign, which 

reached more than 3.2 million children under the age of five. Vitamin A can 

help reduce child deaths by nearly 25 per cent. 



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Bijou (name changed, age 4) is 

sick. Her parents both died of AIDS 

and she has HIV. Bijou gets lifesaving 

medicine from a UNICEFsupported 

organisation in Haiti. 

Ten-month-old Tresford 

was born free from HIV 

thanks to a UNICEFsupported 

programme 

in Zambia. 

Mathato (age 29) holds her 

10-month-old baby Mpho at 

her mother’s home in Lesotho. 

Six weeks after giving birth, 

Mathato discovered that she 

and Mpho have HIV. UNICEF 

UK is helping mothers and 

babies like Mathato and Mpho 

receive life-saving medicine. 

IN FOCUS : LESOTHO 

About one in four of all people age 15 to 49 have HIV in Lesotho. More than 

100,000 children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Nearly one in ten of 

all new HIV cases are children under four years old. Without action, about one 

in three babies born to HIV-positive mothers will get the virus. Most of these 

babies will die before their first birthday. This is wrong. With proper action, 

almost all these babies can be born free from HIV. 

In 2004, nine health centres offered services to prevent the transmission of 

HIV from mother to child. Today, with support from UNICEF UK, 169 (out of 

192) health centres provide these services. This means that nearly 90 per 

cent of HIV-positive mothers now receive the proper medical care to help their 

babies to be born free from HIV. 

UNICEF UK has also helped to ensure that three out of four children with 

HIV receive the right medicine and care, as well as screen 10,000 children 

in remote areas for HIV, TB and malnutrition. 

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“It was so painful to see 

so many children die, they 

used to get very sick and 

suffered terribly, so many 

died in my hands.” 

Mary Motumi, nurse at Hoek 

Hospital, Mohale 



CLIMATE CHANGE 

Climate change presents an urgent 

global challenge, often affecting children 

first and worst. Climate change seriously 

affects children due to a wide range of 

impacts including rising malnutrition, 

diminished water supplies, increased 

disease and more frequent and severe 

storms and floods.

Young ambassadors present the Declaration 

of the UNICEF-organised Children’s Climate 

Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

The Declaration called on world leaders to 

take action to deal with climate change. 

UNICEF took part in the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, highlighting the need 

to put child rights at the core of tackling climate change. Alongside the summit, UNICEF 

organised a Children’s Climate Change Forum, providing children from 46 developed and 

developing nations with the opportunity to share ideas and develop their own initiatives. 

UNICEF UK helped four UK children to attend. The Forum produced a global declaration 

for world leaders, with 13 young delegates meeting Heads of State at the Summit. 

UNICEF UK also played a key role in developing and piloting a groundbreaking new 

standard and certification scheme for climate adaptation, aiming to ensure that funds go 

to the best climate change programmes benefiting children in developing countries. 

As part of this fundraising initiative, UNICEF UK donated to four climate adaptation 

programmes as an alternative to carbon offsetting. 

59 solar kits for schools in Mauritania 

education programme with 30 schools in Ethiopia, aiming to plant 

30,000 trees 

rainwater harvesting systems for 15 schools in Somalia 

emergency preparedness and water improvement programme 

at schools in Guyana, reaching around 3,900 children. 

UNICEF UK’s total carbon footprint for 2009 was 1,629 tonnes CO 2 

(down from 2,025 tonnes in 2007 – a 20 per cent reduction). Because we 

have grown since 2007, our emissions per full time equivalent staff 

member have fallen from 13.1 to 8.9 tonnes over the same period – 

a drop of more than 30 per cent. We will reduce this by at least 

another 5 per cent in 2010, as part of the 10:10 campaign. 

GUYANA : DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE 

“Mosquitoes are arriving, bringing malaria and dengue fever. 

Crops are failing. When it is too hot, some children can’t come 

to school. I want to help my government educate people about 

climate change, and help people manage its effects better,“ says 

Bernie Robertson, age 20, Annai, Guyana. UNICEF UK is helping 

Guyanese children cope with the effects of climate change. 

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27

EMERGENCIES 

By 2009, more than 1.9 million 

people had been displaced by 

fighting in North-West Frontier 

Province, Pakistan. This is the largest 

and fastest-growing refugee crisis 

in the world. Some 200,000 people 

have sought shelter in camps, more 

than half of whom are children. 

UNICEF is providing safe water and 

sanitation, supporting immunisation 

campaigns, and helping to reunite 

children with their families. UNICEF 

has also established child-friendly 

spaces and temporary schools.


For more than 60 years, UNICEF has been a leader in providing lifesaving 

help for children caught up in emergencies around the globe. 

With a permanent presence in more than 190 countries, UNICEF is 

poised to respond rapidly wherever and whenever disaster strikes. 

Your support helped UNICEF UK commit £24.3 million to assist the 

millions of children affected by emergencies in 2009. 

During emergencies, UNICEF delivers life-saving help for children in 

five key areas: 

health and nutrition 

water and sanitation 

education 

protection from abuse and exploitation 

coordination and logistics. 

SRI LANKA : CONFLICT 

In 2009, government forces pushed 

into the last remaining area occupied 

by the Tamil Tigers. More than 70,000 

people died in the 25-year internal 

conflict. The war displaced around 

280,000 people, of whom 250,000 

currently live in government-controlled 

camps around Vavuniya. 

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Dilushana’s mother was raped 

and killed during the conflict in 

Sri Lanka. Dilushana goes to a 

UNICEF-supported school. 

In the camps, UNICEF helped provide 

clean water and safe sanitation for 

180,000 people, immunise 27,000 

children under the age of five, and treat 

9,000 children for malnutrition. UNICEF 

also registered nearly 1,800 separated 

and orphaned children. 



EMERGENCIES 

INDONESIA : EARTHQUAKE 

PHILIPPINES : TYPHOON 

On 30 September, an earthquake in 

West Sumatra killed more than 1,000 

people. The coastal provincial capital 

of Padang was worst hit. Tens of 

thousands of people fled their homes 

and schools as the quake reduced 

much of the city to rubble. Up to a third 

of those affected were children. 

On 26 September, Typhoon Ketsana 

hit Manila, deluging the capital of the 

Philippines with 45 cm (18 inches) of 

rain in 12 hours. The storm claimed 

around 1,000 lives and affected more 

than 1 million children. It damaged or 

destroyed more than a quarter-of-amillion 

homes and over 50,000 people 

sheltered in emergency centres. 

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY : CONFLICT 

UNICEF provided water pumps, water 

storage equipment, 40,000 jerry cans 

and 40,000 hygiene kits. UNICEF also 

established safe places and protection 

services for children, as well as 

providing 250 school tents, schools-ina-box, 

and recreational kits. Less than 

a week after the earthquakes, nearly 

70,000 children were able to return to 

school thanks to UNICEF support. 

UNICEF responded rapidly, providing 

more than 20,500 hygiene kits, 

10,000 family water kits and over 

3,000 tarpaulins for temporary shelter. 

To prevent outbreaks of disease, 

UNICEF delivered more than 250,000 

syringes, 2,000 vaccine carriers, over 

200 emergency health kits and vital 

emergency medicines. UNICEF also 

provided supplies for more than 36,500 

schoolchildren and early learning 

packs for over 6,000 children. 

A girl mourns the death of 

Belal Al-Batran, age 12, 

at the Bureij refugee 

camp, Gaza Strip. 

The conflict from December 2008 to 

January 2009 claimed the lives of 430 

children, injured more than 1,850 and 

left 50,000 displaced. 

UNICEF provided safe drinking water 

for 30,000 people for three months, 

delivered emergency medicine for 

more than 250,000 children under 

the age of five, medical kits for about 

130,000 people, surgical kits for 

2,400 patients and resuscitation kits 

for 100,000 patients. UNICEF also 

distributed schools-in-a-box for more 

than 10,000 students, science kits 

for 4,200 students and 6 tents for 

temporary schools. 



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2010 Haiti earthquake, see page 40 

HORN OF AFRICA : DROUGHT AND MALNUTRITION 

Drought and soaring food and fuel 

prices affected five million children. 

Severe malnutrition threatened the 

lives of around 500,000 children under 

the age of five. 

In Ethiopia, UNICEF supplied nearly 

2,400 tonnes of therapeutic food, 

such as high-protein peanut paste, 

for 200,000 severely malnourished 

children. In the Somali and Afar 

regions, UNICEF helped 1.6 million 

people receive health, nutrition, and 

water and sanitation services. UNICEF 

also helped treat more than 200,000 

children with acute diarrhoea. In total, 

around 12 million children benefited 

from our child survival interventions. 

SOMALIA : CONFLICT AND DISPLACEMENT 

SUDAN : CONFLICT AND MALNUTRITION 

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The suffering of Somalia’s children 

deepened as the country experienced 

its worst violence in nearly two 

decades, the failure of another rainy 

season, the effects of hyperinflation 

and decreased humanitarian access. 

More than 3.25 million people needed 

urgent assistance, including 650,000 

children under the age of five. 

In early 2009, the Government of 

Sudan expelled 16 aid agencies from 

northern Sudan, interrupting life-saving 

services for around 1.5 million people. 

The children of Darfur suffered the 

most as the expelled organisations had 

helped to provide clean water, food 

and health care. UNICEF remained and 

stepped into the breach. 

UNICEF reached more than 46,000 

children under the age of five 

and more than 37,000 women of 

childbearing age with life-saving health 

services in the Afgooye Corridor of 

southern Somalia. In addition, more 

than 50,000 children under the age 

of five in the Afgooye and Mogadishu 

camps received a month’s supply of 

nutrient-enriched porridge. UNICEF 

also treated more than 13,000 

severely malnourished children. 

UNICEF helped vaccinate more than 

1.1 million children against polio and 

deliver other vaccinations for over 

190,000 children. In Darfur, more than 

1.3 million children received vitamin 

A supplements and the families of 

more than 600,000 children collected 

mosquito nets. UNICEF helped treat 

more than 6,000 malnourished 

children in Darfur and South Kordofan 

and ensured clean water for more than 

440,000 people. 



INTERNATIONAL INSPIRATION 

LONDON 2012 

Empowering children through sport 

Boys and girls playing at a 

school in Delhi. International 

Inspiration is bringing sport to 

thousands of children in India. 

International Inspiration is the international social legacy of the London 

2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It aims to enrich the lives of 

12 million children and young people through physical education, sport 

and play. UNICEF works with UK Sport and the British Council to deliver 

this ambitious project, supported by the London Organising Committee 

of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the UK Government, the British 

Olympic Foundation and the British Paralympic Association. 

In July, David Beckham, Sir Chris Hoy, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Denise 

Lewis and Colin Jackson became International Inspiration Ambassadors. 

In 2009, through International Inspiration, UNICEF UK provided 

£2.6 million to: 

train more than 450 instructors to teach 27,000 children to 

swim in Bangladesh 

provide grassroots sports for more than 400,000 children 

in Brazil 

train 430 master coaches and 17,000 volunteers 

for community sport in India 

and much more… 

BANGLADESH : SWIMMING SAVES LIVES 

Each year, around 17,000 children die from 

drowning in Bangladesh. Per head of population, 

more children drown here than in any other country. 

In 2009, UNICEF supported the training of more 

than 450 swimming instructors to provide survivalswimming 

skills for 27,000 children age 4–10. 



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YOUR UNICEF 

The Campaigner 

“UNICEF equipped 

me in a unique and 

compelling way to 

campaign in my local 

community.” 

“ “ 

I have experienced first hand the educational 

opportunities they create for children, enabling us 

to exercise our right to be heard. Without UNICEF, 

the tragic stories I heard from friends at the Climate 

Forum would have gone unheard. UNICEF helps to 

make the future better and brighter for children. 

Cressie Mawdesley-Thomas, UNICEF campaigner 

The Runner 

The Business Leader 

We are very proud of the partnership Barclays 

has with UNICEF. UNICEF is a key player in 

delivering large-scale impacts for children who find 

it hard to get access to education. UNICEF’s work is 

tremendously important in giving children a chance 

of a brighter future. 

Marcus Agius, Chairman, Barclays 

” ” 

The Supporter 

Building Young Futures 

partnership supports 

education, employment 

and entrepreneurship 

programmes for young 

people in 13 countries. 

In May, Keith completed 

Ironman Lanzarote. 

He raised £3,792, 

enabling UNICEF to 

buy two motorbikes for 

doctors to treat children 

in remote areas. 

“UNICEF’s achievements 

are spectacular, and 

that is why I continue to 

support their efforts.” 

“ “ 

After watching Long Way Down on BBC2 

and seeing UNICEF provide doctors with 

motorbikes to enable them to treat children in 

remote areas, I knew I wanted to raise money 

for this brilliant charity. 

Keith Clarke, UNICEF fundraiser 

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I started to support UNICEF because there was 

so much that I loved about them. People at UNICEF 

are caring, trustworthy and diligent. I remember 

seeing a film of local UNICEF field workers 

distributing vaccines for children in Africa. 

Bob Seabrook, UNICEF supporter 

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WORK IN THE UK 

Baby Friendly Initiative 

Breastfeeding protects mothers and babies against a 

wide range of illnesses. Babies who are not breastfed 

are much more likely to suffer serious illnesses such 

as gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, allergies and 

diabetes. They are also more likely to die from sudden 

infant death syndrome or to suffer from childhood 

leukaemia. In addition, breastfeeding mothers gain 

protection from breast and ovarian cancer. 

UNICEF UK runs the Baby Friendly Initiative in the UK, 

encouraging hospitals to ensure that mothers receive 

proper advice and support in breastfeeding their 

babies, assessing and accrediting the health facilities 

that provide a high standard of care. UK hospitals 

that receive Baby Friendly accreditation increase their 

breastfeeding rates by an average of 10 per cent. 

During 2009, 101 hospitals, health centres and 

universities received a Baby Friendly award. The new 

accreditations mean that about 75,000 children were 

born in areas where breastfeeding care practices 

improved in 2009. UNICEF UK also trained more than 

2,300 health professionals, which will lead to a higher 

standard of service to new mothers and babies. 



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Rights Respecting Schools 

UNICEF UK champions child-centred education based 

on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2009, 

UNICEF UK continued to expand the Rights Respecting 

School Award (RRSA) scheme for UK schools. The Award 

recognises a school’s achievement in embedding the 

Convention in its ethos and curriculum. During 2009, 

110 schools received RRSA status, making a total of 

224 Rights Respecting Schools in the UK. 

Child Friendly Communities 

In 2009, UNICEF UK developed the Child Friendly 

Communities initiative, aimed at realising and embedding 

child rights at local level throughout the UK. The initiative 

establishes a framework of standards, assessment and 

accreditation to improve children’s well-being in the UK. 

We recruited six young people as Article 12 Advisers to 

help develop the initiative. We also recruited six Local 

Authorities and Children’s Trusts from across the UK to pilot 

Child Friendly Communities in their local areas. 

Students and Headteacher 

John Porteous of Turton High 

School, Bolton, learn about 

UNICEF’s work. Porteous 

said of the Rights Respecting 

School Award, “For the first 

time I found a national initiative 

I could really believe in.” 

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Where your money goes 

MONEY 

Where we work and priorities for children 

UNICEF UK depends entirely on voluntary contributions 

to support UNICEF programmes worldwide. We receive 

no money from the United Nations budget. 

Our total income for 2009 was £65.7 million, which 

allowed us to make £50 million available for programmes 

for children. Of this, £40.2 million was for 

specific programmes or countries chosen 

by UNICEF UK donors, £5.1 million for 

UNICEF to send where the need is 

greatest and £4.7 million for UNICEF UK’s 

advocacy and education programmes in 

the UK, including those of the Baby Friendly Initiative. 

23 

22 

54 

For every £1 

you give to UNICEF UK 

Income by source from 2005–09 (£million) 

15 

7 

6 

76p 

2p 

22p 

11 

to raise another pound 

administration 

programmes for children 

Based on average over the last 5 years. 

* 

* Including donations for the exceptional emergencies of the 

Asian tsunami, Pakistan earthquake and Niger food crisis 



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A girl reads on her fist day back at school 

in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. 

Conflict has destroyed or damaged more 

than 400 girls’ schools. UNICEF is helping 

children return to their homes and schools. 

This girl supports her family 

by posing for tourists at a 

refugee camp in Thailand. 

In addition, we committed £8,953,000 to UNICEF 

thematic programmes, spent £197,000 on 

International Inspiration in the UK (part of the 

international social legacy of the London 2012 

Olympics) and £163,000 to support the Children’s 

Climate Change Forum in Copenhagen. 

At the end of 2009, we had yet to send £982,000. 

20 

46 

29 

This map and table show where UNICEF UK committed money in 2009 

21 53 4 

19 

36 

37 

1 

55 

34 

10 

Key to map colours 

9 

13 

48 

59 

38 

16 

50 

60 

UNICEF global programmes 

in 155 countries supported 

via UNICEF headquarters 

6 

UNICEF programmes 

directly supported 

by UNICEF UK 

8 

56 

44 

26 

17 

18 

28 

32 

30 

51 

26 

27 

18 

57 

29 

58 

2 

14 

47 

40 

24 

35 

49 

3 

43 

5 

33 

52 

12 

The map and table show money committed in 2009 only. 

This report also includes achievements in 2009 where we 

transferred money in a previous year. 

Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in 

Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. 

The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been 

agreed upon by the parties. The boundaries and names 

shown and the designations used on this map do not imply 

official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. 

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31 

42 

41 

39 

45 

1 Angola £28,000 Education 

2 Azerbaijan £297,000 Education 

3 Bangladesh £350,000 Child survival, Child protection 

4 Benin £59,000 Education 

5 Bhutan £26,000 Emergency 

6 Bolivia £30,000 Education 

7 Brazil £723,000 Child survival, Education 

8 Bulgaria £116,000 Child protection 

9 Central African Republic £180,000 Child survival, Emergency 

10 Chad £50,000 Emergency 

11 Chile £75,000 Emergency 

12 China £804,000 Education, HIV 

13 Congo, Democratic Republic of £227,000 Child protection, 

Emergency 

14 Djibouti £32,000 Emergency 

15 Ecuador £25,000 Child survival 

16 Egypt £389,000 Education, HIV 

17 Eritrea £32,000 Emergency 

18 Ethiopia £2,672,000 Child survival, Emergency 

19 Gabon £10,000 Child protection 

20 Gambia £88,000 Child survival 

21 Ghana £25,000 Child survival 

22 Guatemala £32,000 Emergency 

23 Haiti £137,000 Child survival 

24 India £1,669,000 Child survival, Education, HIV, Emergency 

25 Indonesia £373,000 Emergency 

26 Iraq £2,000,000 Emergency 

27 Jordan £129,000 Education 

28 Kenya £4,583,000 Child survival, Education, HIV, Emergency 

29 Madagascar £870,000 Child survival, Education, Emergency 

30 Malawi £283,000 Child survival, Education, HIV 

31 Malaysia £32,000 Education 

32 Mozambique £261,000 Child survival, Education, HIV 

33 Myanmar (Burma) £33,000 Child survival 

34 Namibia £32,000 Emergency 

35 Nepal £400,000 Child survival 

36 Niger £135,000 Child survival, Education 

37 Nigeria £281,000 Education, HIV 

38 Occupied Palestinian Territories £939,000 Education, 

Emergency 

39 Pacific Islands £68,000 Emergency 

40 Pakistan £254,000 Education 

41 Papua New Guinea £146,000 Child survival 

42 Philippines £412,000 Education, Emergency 

43 Russian Federation £115,000 Education 

44 Rwanda £57,000 Education 

45 Samoa £60,000 Emergency 

46 Sierra Leone £40,000 Child survival 

47 Somalia £199,000 Education, Emergency 

48 South Africa £705,000 Child survival, Education, HIV, 

Child protection 

49 Sri Lanka £1,038,000 Emergency 

50 Sudan (includes Darfur) £176,000 Child survival 

51 Swaziland £30,000 HIV 

52 Thailand £436,000 Education, Child protection 

53 Togo £276,000 Child survival, Education, HIV 

54 Trinidad and Tobago £64,000 Child protection 

55 Tunisia £169,000 Education 

56 Turkey £6,000 Education 

57 Uganda £164,000 Education 

58 Yemen £65,000 Emergency 

59 Zambia £823,000 Education, Emergency 

60 Zimbabwe £11,316,000 Emergency 




THANK YOU 

Thank you to all our individual supporters, runners, trekkers, 

schools, campaigners, event organisers, community fundraisers, 

corporate partners, trusts, foundations and grant-making bodies 

who helped us achieve so much for children in 2009. 

Youth Champions and campaigners 

Hannah Austin 

Daphne Boulicault 

Romy Cassel 

Hannah Coakley 

Sara Darr 

Antonia Dixey 

Andy Gallant 

Vicki-Sara Gray 

Lauren Harrison 

Sophie Harrison 

Katie Haywood 

Alex Helliwell 

Luke Hughes 

Mobeen Hussain 

Ajeet Jugnauth 

Emily Middleton 

Graeme McGhee 

Cressida Mawdesly-Thomas 

Mellika Myers 

Jennifer Natan 

Eshe Nelson 

Harry Phinda 

Fazila Ragi 

Ruth Russell 

Birzi Saleh 

Sara Saleh 

Imogen Schon 

Ruby Smith 

Harriet Southwood 

Kai Yuen Wong 

Rhiannon Spencer 

Kalika Sunger 

Rachna Vyas 

Alex White 

Zoe Walder 

Ieuan Willox 

Charitable trusts, foundations 

and grant-making bodies 

Annandale Charitable Trust 

Balcombe Charitable Trust 

Band Aid Trust 

Bay Tree Charitable Trust 

Big Lottery Fund 

Audrey & Stanley Burton 1960 

Charitable Trust 

Callendar Charitable Trust 

CfBT Education Trust 

City Bridge Trust 

Comic Relief 

Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable 

Foundation 

Cotton Trust 

Lord Deedes of Aldington Charitable Trust 

Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust 

Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission 

Ingram Trust 

Jersey Overseas Aid Commission 

Maurice & Hilda Laing Charitable Trust 

Langdale Trust 

Paterson Logan Charitable Trust 

The Marple Charitable Trust 

Marr-Munning Trust 

The Medicor Foundation 

Mercury Phoenix Trust 

John Moores Foundation 

Rowan Charitable Trust 

Scotshill Trust 

Souter Charitable Trust 

Tolkien Trust 

Valentine Charitable Trust 

Volant Charitable Trust 

World Jewish Relief 

William Whyte Tait Charitable Trust 

Global Guardians 

Global Guardians are supporters 

who have committed to make an 

annual gift to enable children to 

survive and thrive. 

Mr and Mrs R. Allan 

Di Chaplin 

Kevin Fenlon 

Professor Janet Garton 

Dr Robert and Mrs Adrianne Ker 

Mr & Mrs F. McCartan 

Peter and Barbara Rogers 

Peter and Sue Shipp 

Mr J. Tailor 

Mr & Mrs J. Styles 

Peter and Jan Winslow 

Max and Patricia Trautman 

Other supporters 

Bannatyne Fitness Ltd 

Adam and Elizabeth Knight 

Edouard Salet and Marie-Caroline Messager 

Kochoni holds her son 

Anando (age one) outside 

their home in Sunamganj, 

north-east Bangladesh. 

UNICEF works with the 

Bangladeshi Government 

to reduce child and 

maternal malnutrition. 




Our corporate partners 

UNICEF UK Ambassadors, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, International Inspiration 

Ambassadors, and high-profile supporters 

Lord Attenborough 

Duncan Bannatyne 

David Beckham 

Martin Bell 

Orlando Bloom 

Charley Boorman 

Paul Clark 

Jamie Cullum 

Matt Dawson 

Cat Deeley 

Sir Alex Ferguson 

Ralph Fiennes 

Ryan Giggs 

Dame Tanni 

Grey-Thompson 

Sir Chris Hoy 

Colin Jackson 

Jemima Khan 

Denise Lewis 

Lucy Liu 

Ewan McGregor 

Elle Macpherson 

Sir Roger Moore 

James Nesbitt 

Andrew O’Hagan 

Michael Palin 

Vanessa Redgrave 

Zöe Salmon 

Claudia Schiffer 

Trudie Styler 

Robbie Williams 

David Beckham, South Africa Martin Bell, Somalia Charley Boorman, Indonesia 

Jamie Cullum, Ethiopia Matt Dawson, South Africa Cat Deeley, Brazil 

James Nesbitt, Guinea Denise Lewis, India Tanni Grey-Thompson, Jordan 




HELP NOW 

HAITI : 01/2010 

UNICEF helped reunite Itse 

Mui with his five-year-old 

daughter after a month 

of separation. 

At the start of 2010, an unprecedented emergency 

confronted the children of Haiti. On 12 January, 

a massive earthquake struck the island nation. 

The epicentre lay close to Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s 

crowded capital. The earthquake killed more than 

150,000 people, injured around a quarter of a 

million and left 1.5 million homeless. 

The impact on children was shattering. In addition 

to the dead and injured, the earthquake left many 

thousands orphaned or separated from their parents, 

roaming the streets in search of safety. 

The earthquake hit an already desperately fragile 

population. The 4 million children of Haiti live in one 

of the poorest nations on Earth. They suffer the 

highest rate of infant death in the western world. 

Lack of schools and hospitals mean that nearly 50 

Adeline, age 8, protects herself 

from the rain at a UNICEFsupported 

camp for people 

made homeless by the 

earthquake in Port-au-Prince. 

per cent of children do not go to primary school and 

around 60 per cent of people lack basic health care. 

Thanks to donations, UNICEF launched our 

humanitarian relief effort within 24 hours. By the end 

of January, UK supporters had donated £3 million, 

helping us to deliver life-saving health, nutrition, 

water and sanitation supplies. On 27 January alone, 

we provided nearly 350,000 people with clean water. 

Please help children caught in emergencies such 

as the Haiti emergency. Please help protect the 

rights of every child to clean water, nutritious food, 

education and protection from abuse. 

Donate, campaign or raise money to help us put it 

right for children in Haiti and around the world. 

DONATE 

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a month (or your own amount). 

Please use the detachable 

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Photo credits 

References 

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main © UNICEF/HQ09-0463/Gangale 

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For five hours every day, Momena, 

age 10, picks rubbish on the streets 

of Dhaka, Bangladesh. “I get up at 

six and fetch water for my family. 

Then I go rubbish picking until eight 

when I go to school. By 10 o’clock, 

I am back collecting rags. Then I eat and 

wash before collecting rubbish again. 

In the evening, I sell the rubbish. On a 

good day, I make 20 taka (24p). I give the 

money to my father.” In 2009, UNICEF UK 

helped 160,000 children like Momena go 

to school in Bangladesh. 

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Inside back cover 

© UNICEF/Bangladesh/Seidel 

Page 1, Para 3, line 4: 

UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2009, UNICEF, 

New York, 2009), p. ii. (under-5 mortality fell from 

12.7 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008). 

Page 1, Para 4, last line: 

UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO, Towards Universal Access: 

Scaling up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health 

Sector (WHO, Geneva, 2009), p. 87. 

Page 3: 

UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2009, p. ii. 

Page 4: Ethiopia, line 1: 

unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_statistics.html, 

last accessed 1 June 2010. 

Page 4: malaria, line 1: 

who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/, 


Page 7, line 2: 

A Future without Child Labour (International Labour 

Organization, Geneva, 2002), p. 32. 

Page 7, line 3: 

UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2006 (UNICEF, 

New York, 2007); (child soldiers); Tunnu, Olara A., ‘Era of 

Application: Instituting a compliance and enforcement 

regime for CAAC’, Statement before the Security Council, 

New York, 23 February 2005, p. 3. 

Page 8, Bangladesh line 1: 

ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/newdelhi/ipec/ 

responses/bangladesh/index.htm, last accessed 

1 June 2010. 

Page 11: 

childinfo.org/education.html, last accessed 1 June 2010. 

Page 12, Sudan, line 3: 

UNICEF, “UNICEF Southern Sudan Go to School Initiative 

report for UNICEF UK”, 2009, available on request. 

Page 12, Sudan, last para: 

unicef.org/sudan/media_5584.html, last accessed 

1 June 2010. 

Page 13, Zambia, line 1: 

unicef.org/infobycountry/zambia_statistics.html, last 

accessed 1 June 2010. 

Page 13, Zambia, line 2: 

UNICEF, Humanitarian Action Report 2009 (UNICEF, New 

York, 2009), p. 114. 

Page 17, Thailand: 

UNICEF, Child Friendly Schools: Case Study, Thailand 

(UNICEF, 2009), p. 5. 

Page 22: 

Violari, A., et al., Children with HIV: Early Antiretroviral 

Therapy (CHER) Study, presentation at the 4th IAS 

Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and 

Prevention, Sydney, 22–25 July 2007. 

Page 23: 

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2008 

Report on the global AIDS epidemic (UNAIDS, Geneva, 

August 2008), p. 218. 

Page 24: 

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2008 

Report on the global AIDS epidemic (UNAIDS, Geneva, 

August 2008), p. 218. 

Page 24: 

unicef.org/southafrica/SAF_children_profile1109.pdf, 


Page 25: 

unicef.org/infobycountry/lesotho_statistics.html, last 

accessed 1 June 2010.

UNICEF Inspired Gifts 

Leave a lasting legacy for children 

Alison Richards witnessed first-hand the suffering 

of vulnerable children in poor countries and vowed 

to help. Alison was always looking for opportunities 

to support UNICEF’s work, even using her 50th 

birthday celebrations to raise money for us. 

Tragically, Alison died of cancer at the age of just 

53. It was an enormous loss, but Alison made sure 

she continued to help children by leaving a gift to 

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Alison Richards 

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