UNICEF UK Trustees Report and Financial Statements 2010

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The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 b. Basic education and gender equality Every child has the right to go to school, yet more than 100 million children 4 , the majority of whom are girls, lack the benefits of primary education. Education enhances lives. It ends generational cycles of poverty and disease and provides the means for sustainable development. Education is a basic human right, vital to personal and social development and well-being. UNICEF works to ensure quality basic education for all children with an emphasis on gender equality and eliminating disparities of all kinds. In support of Millennium Development Goal 2, by 2015 UNICEF aims to ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary education. In 2010, UNICEF UK committed £3.7 million for UNICEF’s international programmes to help children gain access to education – many for the first time. We also spent around £980,000 promoting child rights in UK schools under our Rights Respecting School initiative. Schools for Africa Road to Awareness, Starwood Hotels and Resorts employee fundraising scheme, raised more than £230,000 for UNICEF UK to support the Schools for Africa programme. Schools for Africa is a partnership between UNICEF and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which aims to benefit more than 8 million vulnerable children in 11 of Africa’s poorest countries. The money from Road to Awareness will enable over 1,500 children to complete their primary education in South Africa In 2010, the joint IKEA, UNICEF and Save the Children Christmas fundraising campaign raised more than €11 million globally, including more than £240,000 for UNICEF UK from IKEA stores in the UK. From October to December, IKEA invited customers to support vulnerable children worldwide by purchasing IKEA soft toys and other children’s products. IKEA donated €1 for every qualifying product sold. IKEA split the total donation between UNICEF and Save the Children education projects. UNICEF UK’s share of the funds supported the Schools for Africa programmes in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and South Africa. Literacy and education, Guatemala As part of their global Signature for Good initiative, Montblanc donated more than £70,000 to UNICEF UK to support education for pre-school and primary school children in Guatemala. Child-friendly schools, South Africa In South Africa, sport for development has become an integral part of education and successfully embedded into more than 800 UNICEF-supported child-friendly schools. In 2010, through International Inspiration, UNICEF UK supported over 100 teachers, 500 community coaches and 1,500 young leaders in acquiring organisational and 4 UNICEF global databases, 2008, and UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre, 2008. 8
The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 leadership skills to use physical education (PE) and sport to promote healthy lifestyles, as well as improve the quality of the learning environment and education as a whole. Sport empowers girls, Jordan Through International Inspiration, UNICEF UK has been empowering girls through sport in Jordan. We helped train more than 1,500 girls to become qualified peer educators actively promoting inclusion and the power of sport as well as advocating for girls’ right to play. In 2010, International Inspiration supported the creation of 15 sports hubs where schools and community centres provide opportunities for children, particularly girls, to get involved regularly in sport and play activities in five marginalised communities. Building Young Futures The £5 million, three-year Building Young Futures partnership between Barclays and UNICEF UK supports education, employment and entrepreneurship projects in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. In 2010, the partnership helped more than 275,000 children return to education in Kenya, China, Mexico, Pakistan, Zambia, Nigeria and the Philippines. In Kenya, Building Young Futures helped to create child protection centres for vulnerable street children, reintegrating more than 840 children into mainstream education. In China, we helped register around 30,000 migrant children and give them access to education and skills training. Children unregistered at birth find it difficult to receive basic health care, enrol in school, and access social and legal protection. The partnership has also helped to improve the education outcomes for more than 170,000 indigenous children in Mexico, making schools more welcoming for indigenous children, tackling discrimination and reducing school dropout. In Pakistan, we have set up centres to provide an education for more than 4,300 child labourers in brick factories. Barclays also enabled us to provide basic education for 1,750 children at youth centres in Zambia. The partnership also produced Just Living, a global citizenship resource pack for UK secondary schools, based on Article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the right to a decent standard of living. The pack will help young people develop a rights-based approach to economic well-being. PE and sport, Mozambique International Inspiration’s focus in Mozambique is to embed quality and inclusive PE and sport activities within child-friendly schools. In 2010, UNICEF UK funded activities reached more than 100,000 children in seven districts of Mozambique. In addition, UNICEF and partners produced a manual for PE (complementing the existing national curriculum) that provides instructions for developing appropriate teaching and learning materials and promotes a system of mentoring among teachers in a primary school setting. A pilot of the manual was successful in 70 schools in Mozambique, and every school in all seven districts will be able to use the manual by February 2011. 9
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