Fall Events to Benefit Katrina Victims
The event is giving away an autographed celebrity chef’s jacket in an eBay auction of signed jackets sponsored by Chefs for Humanity to benefit the fund for the child survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Twenty-three world-famous chefs including ten celebrity chefs from the Food Network have donated their autographed jackets to the event for auction which runs through Sept. 21st.
Also, in recognition of the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on thousands of children, UNICEF will give half of the proceeds from their Trick-or-Trick Campaign this year to help the disaster’s youngest survivors.
The 55-year-old tradition known by generations is one of America’s longest-running youth volunteer activities, according to UNICEF staff.
Last year the event raised nearly $5 million, a record for the organization.
This time the Oct. 31st trick-or-treating is allowing schools and groups who have raised money for UNICEF in the past to forgo ordering materials ahead of time so the kit will arrive in those mailboxes automatically.
You can download the 2005 educational materials for students of all ages on the New York-based organization’s website, unicefusa.org.
If you have not received your kit by Sept. 19th call 1-800-UNICEF.
UNICEF staff was deployed recently to help with relief efforts for hurricane victims in the affected areas.
As world leaders gathered in New York for this week’s World Summit at the United Nations, an unprecedented coalition of governments and health organizations joined together on Sept. 13th to underscore the critical important of reducing child and maternal deaths as part of the overall campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) according to a press release written by UNICEF.
“To accelerate progress in reducing millions of deaths that are preventable, leading advocates for women and children launched The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health today,” stated the release. “While some countries have made substantial progress, at the current rate of progress the majority of developing nations fall well short of achieving the 2015 MDGs for maternal and child health.”
“Each year over half a million women die in pregnancy or childbirth and 10.6 million children die before their fifth birthday,” said Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF, kicking off the event.
She said the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) is an example of a partnership created to address health issues that can’t be resolved by organizations running by themselves.
