U.N.A.C. APPEAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXX, Issue 51, 6 July 1950, Page 2

U.N.A.C. APPEAL

“DAY’S PAY WILL SAVE ANOTHER CHILD.” While former allies rearm and people shudder at the threat of an atomic World "War 111, one practical United Nations agency is betting on peace—and working to save children for tomorrow. Thii is UNICEF—the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund—a strictly nonpartisan organisation which mothers hungry, ill and destitute youngsters on both sides of Europe’s Iron Curtain and in parts of the world. With modest resources, UNICEF can do only a part of what might be done. But it is doing a lot. At this internationally deadlocked moment, UNICEF is quietly feeding more than 4,500,000 —undernourished youngsters, pregnant - and nursing mothers—from Italy to Yugoslavia to China. It is assisting the world-wide anti-tuberculosis campaign, spearheaded by Scandinavian Red Cross teams, which aims to cover 100,000,000 children throughout the world. UNICEF is carrying on through the changing fortunes of wa? in China. It. is contributing vitamin to the fight against pellagra in Rumania’s dust bowl, assisting lingering victims of Nazi extermination, laying plans to salvage homeless kids in flattened Germany. Tn sudden crises, UNICEF jumps in to prevent starvation and freezing, rushing emergency supplies to 500,000 refugees .in Palestine or blankets to 100,000 refugees. in Greece. All this is being done on a purely ■voluntary basis, through donations from the governments and private citizens of sixty lands. Where as other United Nations agencies are financed by assessments on member countries nobody is compelled to support UNICEF. But the contributions come in. They don’t just give -the stuff away with no strings attached, incidentally; to get UNICEF aid for its children, a country must add an equal amount of its own products to everv pound’s worth sent in by UNICEF. * Appeal Now Open. The appeal was officially opened on 2, and will close on August 31. The target aimed at is £500,000, and the quota for Canterbury, in which Kaikoura is included, is £60,000., Donations to the fund will be accepted at the office of the Kaikoura County Council or the “Star” Office.