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Programme for the Education of Children in Need
UNESCO created the Programme for the Education of Children in Need in 1992 to offer a future to vulnerable children through education. Since its creation, over US$34 million has been raised in private funds and these have been fully and directly invested into immediate support for over 340 projects in over 90 countries worldwide.
 

home.jpg Economic interdependence, fast travel, tourism and high-tech communications might appear to have turned our world into a global village, yet millions of children in developing countries continue to die and suffer from disease, abuse and neglect. Many are left to fend for themselves on city streets. Others are forcibly enrolled into armies, made to work for pitiable wages or sold into sexual slavery. Wherever they are, whoever they are, exposed to violence and exploitation, abandoned or without food and shelter, education remains one of the few routes left to address their intolerable and desperate plight.
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NewsLauren Child for UNESCO: Appeal for stories for “My Life is a Story II” 2010-03-03 9:00 am UNESCO
The second phase of the Campaign “My Life is a Story” has been recently launched by Lauren Child. The Campaign has been initiated by the British children’s author and illustrator in 2008 in the framework of her partnership with UNESCO’s Programme for the Education of Children in Need and her publisher Hachette Children’s Books. Its purpose is to give children all over the world the opportunity to tell the story of their life through writing, drawing and photography.
 NewsChildren’s author and illustrator, Lauren Child, appointed UNESCO Artist for Peace 2008-12-05 1:15 pm UNESCOPRESS
The British children’s author and illustrator, Lauren Child, has been named UNESCO Artist for Peace in a ceremony at the Organization’s Headquarters on 12 December 2008.



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