Our Impact
In just ten years, the Foundation has established more than 300 programmatic partnerships and worked with over 40 UN agencies and more than 100 governments around the world. Our track record demonstrates that we are catalysts for change…in philanthropy, on global issues and at the United Nations.
Our efforts have helped decrease child mortality, improve disaster relief, create a new energy economy, empower women and girls, preserve precious World Heritage sites and ensure funding for the UN to continue its life-saving, life-changing work.
STORIES OF IMPACT
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Could you survive on 13 liters of water a day?
Area of Involvement: Women & Population; Sustainable Development
(Part seven of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) Driving to the Mai-Aini UNHCR refugee camp, two things struck me: the beautiful but barren mountains, and the dozens of broken-down tanks left behind from war. A young interpreter from Axum shared with me his theory that water is the reason for war.
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Sending anti-malaria nets to refugees in Ethiopia
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
(Part six of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) Standing in Mai-Aini refugee camp in Ethiopia, I was reminded why it is imperative that the UN Foundation fills a vital gap in malaria funding by providing anti-malaria bed nets, the most cost effective method of malaria prevention, to refugees in Africa. Mai-Aini, a camp on the Ethiopia – Eritrea border, hosts 10,000 refugees with 1,200 new people arriving per day from the turbulent country of Eritrea.
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Selam: The bravest girl in Ethiopia, fighting malaria
Area of Involvement: Children’s Health
(Part five of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) Selam, an Eritrean girl I met today, might be the most beautiful child I have ever seen. At only seven years old, Selam walked by herself across the border from Eritrea into Ethiopia. She was trying to locate family members who might be in the refugee camps. Imagine being seven and making a journey like that. Her bravery astounded me!
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A shining example of a woman's work
Area of Involvement: Women & Population
(Part four of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) It was a pleasure to visit Sesuagno Mola, who lives in a small village one hour outside of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Hosted by the Berhane Hewan project aimed at ending child marriage, we visited women who were married young and are now part of a non-formal, UNFPA-sponsored education project for married girls.
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Girls are the future of Ethiopia
Area of Involvement: Women & Population
(Part three of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) I am sitting in the small village of Lalibela, a sub-district of Achefer in Ethiopia. Two sets of beautiful eyes are staring at me. They belong to two young girls who are astonished that I got married at 30 years old and that I don’t have children.
