UNICEF or United Nations Children's Fund is a foundation that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance for children who are in need in various parts of the world. From the name itself, it strives to save lives and promote the well-being of children.

Through the years, it has pushed its members and staff to do their best to help the prevention of diseases, improvisation of sanitation, and hygiene and health practice education for children. Apart from children, it also expands its efforts towards the promotion of gender equality in countries where women are discriminated and oppressed.

It has been working in over one hundred and fifty countries since more than 50 years. As a global humanitarian aid organization, UNCEF has been providing children with everything they need to let them live disease free and healthy lives. It basically gives children the chances to experience the fun that a healthy childhood can offer them. Through the organization's never ending efforts, many children have received clean water, food and nutrition, immunizations and health care, security, emergency relief, and education.

UNICEF is able to extend its arms to more and more children every year through advocacy, fundraising, and awareness in the USA. Regardless of its powerful collaborative efforts, thousands of children still die every year from causes that are quite preventable. With this huge number of children dying, UNICEF does whatever it takes to stop this from happening and making the statistics become zero.

The US Fund for UNICEF does whatever it takes to help save every child suffering from poor and unmonitored health. Through partnerships from individuals, corporations, and even celebrities, the United States' Fund for UNICEF has become stronger than ever. Through campaigns, funding for the organization has become phenomenal. With limitless donors within fifty years, UNICEF along with its humanitarian aid partners has decreased global mortality rate by fifty percent. With the will to help and the challenge to spread its mission, US Fund for UNICEF delivers service straight from the heart.

Purpose

Over twenty two thousand children die every day because of a preventable disease, which the UNICEF believes should not have to die. Many of these children lose their lives due to causes that Americans hardly ever worry about. Some of the most common and preventable reasons why these children die include lack of immunization or vaccination, unpalatable drinking water, and malnutrition. Stopping unnecessary deaths of children from poor countries and educating millions about health is a common mission that UNICEF shares with the world.

The organization's overall goal is to decrease children mortality rate to reach a day when zero is the number for children dying due to preventable causes. It aims to penetrate every corner of the world where children are deprived from proper health care and education. Through whatever means of transportation, be it on foot, camel, donkey, boat, motorcycle, truck or plane, UNICEF aims to help children as well as and their families.

UNICEF exists to provide vaccination to more than fifty percent of the globe's children. It aims to offer families proper sanitation and clean water for drinking. It has already helped over 1.8 billion individuals to have access to palatable water. Another purpose of US Fund for UNICEF is to help in the provision of nourishment for children for the prevention of malnutrition.

Moreover, among the many purposes of the organization's existence, it joins in the battle against AIDS by taking care of children who are affected with the disease. With this mission, it sees to it the pregnant women who have AIDS receive the right drugs to prevent the disease from being transmitted to their unborn child. The organization also functions to protect children against abuse and aims to stop and prevent child trafficking and exploitation.

Quality education for children is another great mission that US Funds for UNICEF adheres with. With a simple goal of helping children live well, the organization has grown to be a multifaceted system that has succeeded in helping the world too.

History

After World War II, the United Nations General Assembly voted to create the UNICEF or the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. It was founded to help foster support and relief to European children who are living in areas wrecked by the World War II. The organization was established in December 1946 and from then onwards, the world became a kindlier place for poor children.

By 1953 UNICEF became a formal part of the United Nations. It started successful campaigns worldwide against a disfiguring disease called yaws. It affected millions of children and with UNICEF's efforts many have been saved by the supply of penicillin to children who could not afford it. In 1961, UNICEF expanded its scope and focusing on addressing more than just children's health issues by bringing into their scope the educational welfare of the children as well. In 1965 it was a proud year for the organization, as it won the Nobel Peace Prize specifically "for the promotion of brotherhood amongst nations."

During the 1970s, the organization became a famous advocate for upholding the rights of children. In the 1980s, it helped the United Nations General Assembly in planning for the Convention on the Rights

of the Child. When it was introduced in 1989 to the UN General Assembly, the Convention turned out to be the most endorsed human rights treaty ever. UNICEF was the key player in enforcing it.

In 1982, UNICEF launched a program which was aimed at saving millions of children every year through low cost methods such as immunization and breastfeeding, oral rehydration therapy, and growth and monitoring.

In the 1990s numerous breakthroughs were made by the organization, including the World Summit for Children.

As a new century unfolded, UNICEF also embraced it with better and more efficient methods of caring for children. In 2001 the "Say Yes for Children" campaign was launched. Today, UNICEF continues its mission

Of increasing child survival rate every year, until no child dies because of a preventable cause.