NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, 28 February 2012 – Urbanisation leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World, its flagship publication. UNICEF thus calls for more investment in urban areas to help children left behind […]
Hong Kong, 11 February 2012 – The Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF HK) held the ‘Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition’ in today’s afternoon to raise funds for the 19th ‘China Children’s Week’. With this year’s theme of ‘My dream hometown’, the event has attracted over 2,000 children under the age of 12, raising […]
February 8, 2012 – At a press conference today, the Face-to-Face Monthly Giving Alliance (hereafter named “the Alliance”), organised and established by 19 Hong Kong charitable organisations, launched a “Code of Practice on Face-to-Face Monthly Donors’ Recruitment” (hereafter named “the Code”). The Code provides practical guidelines and sets professional standards for conducting monthly donor recruitment […]
NAIROBI, Kenya/ HONG KONG, 3 February 2012 – The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help people resume normal lives. Long-awaited rains, coupled with substantial agricultural inputs and […]