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Stories of Impact

Read how we're making an impact around the world

  1. Somalia Successfully Eliminates Polio

    Area of Involvement: Children’s Health

    Somalia undertook a massive effort to eradicate polio.  Learn about a massive vaccination effort led by 10,000 Somalis.

  2. Rebuilding lives and livelihoods in Mexico

    Area of Involvement: Sustainable Development

    When a category 5 hurricane devastated the mostly Mayan community of Sian Ka'an, Mexico, we appealed to our supporters and partners.  The response was overwhelming to help rebuild this World Heritage site.

  3. Community Tours Sian Ka'an builds a successful business model

    Area of Involvement: Sustainable Development

    Community Tours Sian Ka'an is a locally-owned and operated tour service in Mexico.  They needed some help getting their business off the ground and to make it successful.  We were there to support them.

  4. Ending Fistula In This Generation

    Area of Involvement: Women & Population

    For 12 years, Sarah Omega Kidangasi suffered isolation and abandonment as a result of a debilitating childbirth injury.

  5. Giving park guards and gorillas a fighting chance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Area of Involvement: Sustainable Development

    Virunga National Park is both the largest national park in Africa and the continent’s longest inscribed World Heritage site.  However, years of armed conflict within the sites, rampant illegal poaching, and depletion of natural resources put all five World Heritage sites on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

  6. UN Peacekeeping is a Success in Liberia

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations has more than 100,000 troops and personnel deployed to 18 global peace missions, directly impacting 200 million people and indirectly affecting over a billion people. 

  7. Virus Hunters: Stopping Polio in Kenya

    Area of Involvement: Technology

    Until 2007, it had been nearly 20 years since a case of polio was seen in Kenya. But when refugees fleeing political unrest in neighboring Somalia spilled into the country, Kenya again was confronted with the threat of a polio epidemic.   

  8. Solar EmPowerment

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    7 out of every 10 households in rural India have no access to electricity.  Clean energy sources such as solar home systems are too expensive for many.  The UN Foundation is helping to bring the power of the sun to the power-less in India.  

  9. Building Clean Energy Businesses in Africa

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    The Africa Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) provides training and seed money for small businesses in rural Africa to use clean energy technologies.  The program has replaced more than 200,000 tons of firewood and has jumpstarted more than 29 businesses.

  10. Building a constituency of 50,000 UN activists

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    To increase the impact of advocacy on the Hill, the Better World Campaign strives to build a strong and active constituency for the UN.  Our activists are a critical voice when it comes to improving U.S.-UN relations.  

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