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Stories of Impact

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  1. The UN: a Global Champion for Women and Girls

    Area of Involvement: Women & Population

    Empowering women and girls around the world is widely recognized as one of the most important and effective means of advancing global health, promoting economic development, protecting the environment, and safeguard universal human rights. Throughout its history, the United Nations has worked to ensure that all the world’s women and girls have the opportunity to live in dignity,free from want and from fear. For International Women's Day on March 8, join us in supporting the UN in its efforts to champion women and girls.  

  2. Usher Inspires Youth to Mobilize for Haiti

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, music legend Usher Raymond IV teamed up with us to help the victims. Through his non-profit, Usher's New Look, Usher challenged young people to raise $5 each to help the United Nations’ emergency response.

  3. Communications saves lives, brings hope after Haiti earthquake

    Area of Involvement: Technology

    After a deadly earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, millions of people faced the isolating reality of having no telephone or Internet connection. Immediately following the disaster, two teams of telecommunications and technology experts from Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) deployed to Haiti with support from the UN Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.  

  6. 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!   

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. A 12-year-old’s 18-hour work day

    Area of Involvement: Women & Population

    (Part two of Elizabeth Gore's blog series on Ethiopia) In a small one-room education center next to the bus stop in a slum in Addis Ababa, I met seven little girls who impacted me more in a few hours of talking than has any other day in my entire career. I can honestly say that a little piece of my soul is still sitting in the palm of the hand of a girl named Zusiash Mersha.

  10. The United Nations Foundation is in every corner of Ethiopia

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations; Children’s Health; Climate & Energy; Technology; Women & Population

    The UN Foundation’s executive director of global partnerships just wrapped up an extensive trip to Ethiopia, which brought her from rural villages to urban centers to everywhere in between. And while it’s hard to re-create such a dynamic trip in words, Elizabeth is doing exactly that with a blog series on her incredible experiences. 

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