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 International Inspiration contributed over £80,000 for UNICEF programmes in Sindh province, providing recreation, play and sport supplies and activities for an estimated 39,000 displaced children in the worst affected district of Sindh. Warwick University held a ‘Jailbreak’ event that raised an amazing £30,000, which UNICEF UK was able to put to work immediately as part of the emergency response. We would also like to thank the British Pakistan Foundation for responding to the emergency so quickly and mobilising support across the UK. Profound challenges remain. Thanks to our UK supporters, UNICEF continues to work with authorities to tackle the critical levels of malnutrition that persist among flood-affected children. Kirsten Elsby, Chief of Communication for UNICEF Pakistan said, “I haven’t seen levels of malnutrition this bad since the worst famines in Ethiopia, Darfur and Chad. It’s shockingly bad ... as bad as I’ve seen in the worst emergencies in the world.” Benin, floods Heavy September rains caused widespread flooding in Benin, west Africa, destroying whole communities and leaving more than 100,000 people homeless. The floods affected more than 680,000 people, more than 120,000 of whom were children under the age of five. The floods also ruined swathes of farmland and killed more than 80,000 livestock. Even before the floods, more than one in three children under the age of five was chronically malnourished. UNICEF UK responded immediately, transferring £100,000 from our Children’s Emergency Fund. Our contribution helped UNICEF distribute safe drinking water to an estimated 20,000 people sheltering in temporary camps as well as constructing sanitation facilities. UNICEF also expanded programmes to tackle malnutrition, helped train 500 community health workers and staff in more than 50 new nutrition centres to prevent, screen and manage malnutrition, and delivered vital public hygiene messages to the affected population. The floods badly damaged almost 300 schools. In order to get children back to school as quickly as possible, our funding helped UNICEF distributed 22,000 school kits and nearly 1,500 teacher kits. Niger, food crisis By June, Niger faced a severe food crisis resulting from erratic rainfall in 2009, which caused large cereal and pastoral shortages, and rising food prices. The crisis affected more than 7 million people, around half the total population, and threatened to produce devastating death tolls among children under the age of five. In response, UNICEF UK transferred £50,000 from our Children’s Emergency Fund. Our contribution helped UNICEF provide regional and national coordination of interventions for children suffering from acute malnutrition. UNICEF increased the number and capacity of therapeutic feeding centres. By September, our funding had contributed to treating more than 215,000 children for severe acute malnutrition. More than one in 10 of these children needed inpatient care. UNICEF is also working with government to strengthen national nutrition information systems. UNICEF is seeking to address the underlying causes of malnutrition by protecting, promoting and supporting exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life, providing 24
The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 vitamins and minerals through fortified foods and supplements, and promoting access to sanitation and clean water. As always, UNICEF’s life-saving programmes rely on community-based work. Kyrgyzstan, conflict In June 2010, a wave of ethnic violence engulfed the cities of Osh and Djala-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan. The conflict had acute and pressing humanitarian consequences for as many as 1.1 million people, of whom an estimated 400,000 were children. UNICEF UK transferred more than £130,000, including £30,000 from Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, to help the humanitarian relief effort. Our contribution supported the UNICEF airlift of some 200 tonnes of supplies, including medicines and obstetric kits to health centres, water and sanitation kits to displaced families, and micronutrients to prevent vitamin deficiency among more than 80,000 children age 6–24 months in affected areas. Our funding also helped UNICEF to establish 45 child-friendly spaces, providing children with a place to learn, play and receive psychological support to overcome trauma. To get children back to school in the affected areas, as well as promote non-violence in and around learning spaces and schools nationwide, UNICEF worked with the Ministry of Education and Science on the ‘Welcome to School’ initiative. UNICEF also supplied school-in-a-box kits and built or mended toilets in 64 schools. Your support for children Our total income for 2010 was £81.3 million, which allowed us to make £63.2 million available for programmes for children. UNICEF UK depends entirely on voluntary contributions to support UNICEF programmes worldwide. We receive no money from the United Nations budget. Soccer Aid On 6 June 2010, just before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, UNICEF UK staged our third Soccer Aid football match and telethon. Celebrities and football legends teamed up to raise money for UNICEF. The event, broadcast live from Old Trafford on ITV1, was our most successful to date, raising £2.5 million for children affected by the earthquake in Haiti and for UNICEF’s child survival programmes in Madagascar, Peru and Guinea. According to BT, viewers made over 55,000 calls to the donation line during the live television show. UNICEF Ambassador Orlando Bloom was in BT Tower encouraging viewers to donate. We received more than 240,000 donations on the night. More than 6,000 first-time supporters went on to become new regular givers to UNICEF UK. UNICEF UK Ambassadors Robbie Williams, Cat Deeley, Ewan McGregor and James Nesbitt made video reports on the children helped by donations to Soccer Aid. Cat Deeley appealed for help to immunise children in Madagascar. James Nesbitt visited a community affected by malaria in rural Guinea, calling for mosquito nets to prevent the disease. Ewan McGregor visited day-care centres for pre-school children in Peru, appealing for help to treat child malnutrition and support for working mothers. Robbie Williams meanwhile visited Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 25
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