Field Visits

Elizabeth Kiem is the online producer of unicefusa.org.

UNICEF Ambassador Alyssa Milano traveled to Kosovo in May to participate in the commemoration of World Children's Day. Here are some of her reflections.

Rajesh Anandan is the Vice President for Corporate and Foundation Partnerships at the U.S. Fund.
"A wife has to be hard working, not quarrelsome, and pretty," according to Michael, an 18-year old young man we met while visiting a weekly tetanus vaccination initiative at a church in Kotido District, Uganda.
Tetanus vaccinations at church? That's what "health care delivery" can look like when you're at the very last mile of eliminating a disease.

Rajesh Anandan is the Vice President for Corporate and Foundation Partnerships at the U.S. Fund. He recently visited Uganda with representatives from P&G to learn about UNICEF's tetanus elimination programs there.
The crowing right outside my window wakes me up from a not-so-deep sleep. I look at my blackberry - 9pm. That's NYC time, so it's 4am in Kotido District in Karamoja, Uganda.
Uh. After a brief chorus of earnest crowing, the rooster seems to have gone back to sleep.

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Amy Cedarburg is an international flight attendant and Champion for Children for UNICEF's Change for Good Program on American Airlines at Miami International Airport (IMA).

Terrell Lee Kohn is a Champion for Children for UNICEF's Change for Good Program on American Airlines at the Nashville Admirals Club (BNA).

Krista Schmidt is a senior officer for Corporate Partnerships at the U.S. Fund.
I just arrived this week in the beautiful Central American nation of Belize, a middle-income country of about 310,000 inhabitants situated between Guatemala and Mexico, to participate in a UNICEF field visit. Although the population is small, the size of Belize is quite large proportionately, and there is a melting pot of races, languages and cultures from one region to the next.

Frida Giannini is the Creative Director at Gucci. She joined UNICEF representatives on a field visit to Malawi, where in addition to Mozambique, the company's five-year long campaign supports UNICEF programs for thousands of orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
As Creative Director at Gucci, I have seen first hand how our relationship with UNICEF has grown over the last five years.

Annie, Jack, Eva, and Rainie are a group of teens that participated in a Parent-Child Field Visit to Panama last week. Below they share their experiences in their own words.

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From Ann Putnam Marks and Karen Turney in Panama. March 17, 2010