CHILDREN AND WORLD CUP 2006

Score a World Cup

goal for children!

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Dear AZEVEDO:

Sport is a universal language that unites people of diverse backgrounds and nationalities in a common cause. In that spirit of global cooperation, we invite you to join Team UNICEF and our UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE FOR PEACE campaign.
Launched in partnership with FIFA, the international governing body of football, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off this week in Germany, the campaign aims to build a more peaceful world for children – where they all can enjoy their right to play in a safe and protective environment.
Giving a powerful assist to this effort are 15 world-class football players who have joined forces with UNICEF and MTV in a series of public service announcements – entitled ‘Superfans’ – that highlight the power of football to make a difference in young lives.
But you don’t have to be David Beckham, Thierry Henry or Hidetoshi Nakata to make the team. Whether you are a player, a fan or just someone who believes in UNICEF’s mission, please join the world’s greatest footballers in the following pledge to UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE FOR PEACE.
By joining Team UNICEF, I pledge to do everything in my power to ensure that all children grow up in a world at peace.
Sign the pledge and become part of a global movement for children. You will join thousands of teammates online and at the 2006 FIFA World Cup matches who share your concern for children affected by poverty, conflict and violence.
And the teamwork doesn’t stop there! You can score extra points by forwarding this e-mail to your friends and family, and urging them to sign the pledge.
Tell them they can also subscribe to our e-newsletter for regular updates on UNICEF’s work. If everyone receiving this message got just one other person to sign up for e-news, we would dramatically expand our reach and speed our progress toward the ultimate goal: health, education, equality and protection for every child.
Thank you for continuing support and the important position you play on our winning team.

UNICEF For every childHealth, Education, Equality,

ProtectionADVANCE HUMANITY

Score a World Cup goal

for children! 9 June 2006

CHILD ALERT!

Help UNICEF prevent

40,000 child

deaths in the Horn of Africa

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23 May 2006
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Dear AZEVEDO:
Unless we act quickly, thousands of children in the Horn of Africa will face the prospect of a slow death by starvation in the coming months.
A two-year drought has already killed much of the livestock of nomadic pastoralists who roam the vast region in search of water and grazing land for their herds. UNICEF fears that the pastoralists and their children could be next.
To heighten public awareness of the drought crisis, UNICEF has launched a multimedia report, Child Alert: Crisis in the Horn of Africa, as well as a humanitarian funding appeal for $80 million. The Child Alert dramatically illustrates that 40,000 children under the age of five are already acutely malnourished and need help right now.
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah released the report in Geneva. She noted that recent heavy rains had actually deepened the crisis by causing malaria and waterborne diseases in some areas, while providing only limited relief in others.
“This drought has killed up to half the animal population of pastoralists in the Horn of Africa,” said Ms. Salah. “Rain doesn’t bring that back.”
As a result of the ongoing crisis, some 8 million people – including 1.6 million children under five – are in dire need of assistance in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
The Child Alert asserts that the repetitive cycle of drought crises in the Horn can be broken with consistent access to mobile services adapted to the pastoralist way of life, such as the following UNICEF-supported programmes:
Mobile health teams that treat drought-related illnesses, immunize against diseases like measles and provide vitamin A supplements to boost children's immune systems
Training of teachers who can travel with families as they move around the region.
UNICEF and its partners are also providing therapeutic and supplementary feeding for malnourished children and women, as well as clean water and sanitation to prevent outbreaks of diarrhoea and cholera.
With your help, we can build on these life-saving initiatives to avert an even greater catastrophe.
As always, thank you for your continuing support.

UNICEF For every childHealth,

Education, Equality, Protection

ADVANCE HUMANITY

UNICEF NEWS

Out of control in Africa’

Over a million people die from malaria each year, the vast majority in Africa and most of them children under the age of five. In fact, the disease kills a child every 30 seconds, or about 3,000 children every day.
Yet malaria is preventable – a point stressed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, who was present at the premiere and participated in the pre-screening panel discussion. Mr. Sachs is also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals.“Malaria remains basically out of control in Africa, even though we have the means to decisively bring it under control,” he said. “Insecticide-treated bed nets, effective medicines and a combination of therapies, indoor residual spraying in some places, good community health – these components mean that we can bring the number of deaths down by 80 percent, down by 90 percent.”

UNICEF has been helping countries around the world to take effective action against malaria, particularly by promoting the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
“One of the most effective interventions is to make sure that all children and mothers sleep under impregnated mosquito nets,” UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Kul Gautam said at the screening. “These mosquito nets cost only five dollars apiece. If all the children of Africa slept under mosquito nets, a quarter of a million children would not die every year.”
Also during the event, Mr. N’Dour announced the launch of the Youssou N’Dour Fund in collaboration with the non-profit IntraHealth International. The fund will help promote malaria prevention and improved health for vulnerable African mothers and children.
‘Africa LIVE: The Roll Back Malaria Concert’ will air on Thursday, 6 April, on PBS in the United States. The film is being released in the run-up to Africa Malaria Day, 25 April, when the world community shows solidarity with African countries battling this scourge.

UNICEF NEWS

Goodwill Ambassadors help spread

the word about UNICEF and children

New York, 10 April 2006


Stars of the African music world gathered at United Nations headquarters in New York recently to put the spotlight on malaria.
They came for the US premiere screening of ‘AFRICA LIVE: The Roll Back Malaria Concert’, co-hosted by the UN Foundation and UNICEF.
The film documents a two-day concert held last year in Dakar, Senegal to support ‘Roll Back Malaria’, a global initiative made up of more than 90 partners whose goal is to halve deaths from malaria by 2010. Over a million people die from malaria each year, the vast majority in Africa and most of them children under the age of five.
Grammy-winning Senegalese music legend and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Youssou N’Dour conceived the film along with director and producer Mick Csáky. Among the many stars at the event were Mr. N’Dour and acclaimed West African singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo.
Also on hand were UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Kul Gautam and renowned development advocate Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The screening is one example of how celebrities use their fame through the Goodwill Ambassador programme to help UNICEF meet the needs of the world’s children.
UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador – world tennis champion Roger Federer – was appointed on 3 April.
Mr. Federer has long been a passionate advocate for vulnerable children. In 2003, he established the Roger Federer Foundation to fund projects benefiting disadvantaged children with a focus on his mother’s native country, South Africa. He first teamed up with UNICEF over a year ago when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck.
Goodwill Ambassadors like Mr. Federer, Mr. N’Dour and Ms. Kidjo play an important role in helping UNICEF get its message out. Their work is a reminder that every one of us has something to give to make the world better for every child.
Thank you for your continued support.

HELP CHILDREN HELP

PEACE TO THE CHILDREN

OF THE WORLD

Please, attached here you can find called PEACE TO THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. This message must be used for you those who to your Institution or Church. Depending on the greatness and goal of this campaign a large number of people will join this outcry and worldwide intercession for every child of the planet who has undergone by wars, violence, prostitution, drugs or slavery. We believe PLAYING in the only to reach practical and efficient actions to turn in live hope sad situation of millions of boys and girls who live in the five continents. Touched by God’s Spirit we’re asking for your help because we’re sure our beloved Father we’ll hear our outcry and will make human king heart to protect those little children.
For Sake and Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

José J Azevedo – Coordinator

OUTCRY AND WORLDWIDE UNCEASING INTERCESSION FOR EVERY CHILD OF THE PLANET WHO HAS UNDERGONE VIOLENCE AND TO THOSE WHO LIVE IN COUNTRIES IN WAR.

Beloved brethren in Christ, choose one continent of the earth and begin to intercede for every child who lives on in forced to handle guns and trained to kill – or other poverty and inhuman condition –
PRAY FOR EVERY CHILD UNDERGONE BY WARS, SLAVERY AND PROSTITUTION IN THE CONTINENT YOU CHOSE: ÁFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, ASIA, EUROPE OR NORTH AMERICA. In Africa or Latin America due to guerrillas, childhood seems to be worse than in any other country. If possible, write to your country External Affair Ministery asking for the end this human rights disobedience. These little children are sons of God too. Write also to the United Nations headquarters in New York, United States of America. Use for this purpose every means of communication you have in hands: Fax, telephone, internet, wire, letters – translate thesis messages and send them abroad.
Please, send seven copies of this message to seven brethren of seven different churches, mainly Christian ones.

“But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 19.14)

Kaiua's children/Brazil

CHRISTIAN LOGICAL HYMN
(Philippians 2:5 to 11 – Poetics paraphrase)

You might let this mind be in you
As it was in Christ Jesus
Who, being in the form of God,
Did not consider himself to be equal the Creator,
But lived a no reputation life.
Taking the form of a servant
Becoming the likeness of the creature
And was found in appearance as human being.
He humbled himself
And became obedient unto the death of the cross,
As an infamous servant
Wherefore God also has highly exalted Him
- Gave Him the name which is above every name
That at the name of Christ Jesus
Every knee should bow, of those under the earth,
And of those who live in heaven,
Should bow every knee of those on earth.
Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
- To the glory of God the Father – is Lord
(our beloved saviour)