Published 13:04 IST, December 11th 2019
UNICEF Day 2019: Popular quotes by famous personalities to mark the celebration
UNICEF Day 2019 is celebrated every year on Dec 11 as the UNGA created UNICEF back in 1946, as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
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UNICEF Foundation Day is celebrated every year on December 11 as United Nations General Assembly created UNICEF on same day back in 1946, as United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. programme was initiated to provide supplies, assistance and to improve health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children after World War II. UNICEF started as a temporary relief fund of United Nations, however, in October 1953, UNGA extended UNICEF's mandate indefinitely to assist vulnerable children.
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UNICEF Day 2019
Here are some popular quotes by famous personalities to mark celebration of UNICEF Foundation Day.
“I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any or natural resource a country can have. I feel that most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.” -Danny Kaye
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, n feed just one." -Mor Teresa
"re's eugh on this planet for everyone's needs but t for everyone's greed." -Mohandas Gandhi
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"I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II." -Audrey Hepburn
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"Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. y die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent." -Peter Singer
"Around world, children are showing us ir strength and leership vocating for a more sustainable world for all. Let's build on vances and re-commit to putting children first. For every child, every right." -UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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"I never look at masses as my responsibility. I look at individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one." Mor Teresa
"Hunger is t a problem. It is an obscenity. How wonderful it is that body need wait a single moment before starting to improve world." Anne Frank
12:35 IST, December 11th 2019