Fieldnotes: Blogging on UNICEF's child survival work in the field

I would like to be assigned a child to help.
My idea is to see that child get what he or she
needs to survive, grow, and develop.

My motto would be:
"Each One Save One."

Can you oblige?

UNICEF should support Seventh Day Adventist missionary doctors to come to the afflicted ares. They do wonderful work among children and
in behalf of children survival. Get in touch with Marinata and Adra via the Seventh Day Adventist headquarters in Loma Linda, California. They have helped many areasa where
there was no water. And now the people in those areas are taking baths they never dreamed off before not to speak of dinking.

Louise van Vianen
wieslc@yahoo.com

I am a teacher and very concerned about children's welfare in other countries.
I would like to get more involved with the efforts of Unicef.

We are ignoring the fact that these children would grow up decide the faith of the world we live in, and if we are not equipping them with the basic facilities, most of them would never have the correct picture, definitely not a bright one of the planet they are born in.

When you look around, people are stressed, so much into the money minting rat race, the very theory of Charles Darwin has taken an ugly look. I am another of those Corporate IT guys lost in the crowd tryin to search the meaning of what am i doing and where is leading me. How can we be so oblivious to the fact that so many adult along with kids are sleeping hungry every night.

I would b more than glad to be a part of this major team working on humanitarian grounds. Cuz humane behaviour doesnt deserve to be slogging at the lowest level in the food cycle, we aint animals.

It has benefitted me just as much as it has anyone else to have been a member of Unicef for over a year now. Thank you for all of the wonderful work that you do to help children globally.

thank you for the note, sale us where they can FUND US yours simon

We cannot stop the genocide in other countries until we stop the genocide in our own country, the foster care system are destroying black,poor and minority children. Children are being rape and drugged as we speak. Our babies are suffering in silence this fight is more important than any fight anyone of us can ever fight. We must save our children.

Two Comments:
First, there are now HD Camcorders you can buy for $169 or less. Every field agent could have one and post videos of the problems and sollutions on YOUTUBE or a similar site. People all over the world could watch this happen.

Secondly, I often wanted to help various organizations reach out to help children but everytime I'd send a small gift that I could afford to send, I'd be place on the "marketing list" of that organization. Helplessly I would watch as precious dollars that could help children were waisted on expensive color maid solicitations for more money from me; money I didn't have and could never send.

So, an aweful thing happened, I realized I couldn't help those children or those organizations. Because, every time I sent one dollar they would waste ten trying to get me to send more. A URL or phone number at the end of the messages could replace all that expensive mail package with a free video. Fundraising costs $0, while increasing returns.

If I could be sure you would never spend any money on expensive mail solicitations trying to get me to send more money, I would gladly send some to help with this most important cause in the world. So, if you can promise me, I'll only ever get an email from you, we're in business.

I would like to help children as well. i am first time here in this blog. So, not sure what I do. I am an environmental engineer dealing with water resource and environment and also have been making donations for 5 years. this might be off track, but one of my idea is kind of making web-based donation tracking system in UNICEF website for each donator who is willing to pay admin fee for it. I have been making donations for many years, so i would like to see how much I donated to UNICEF so far and how i made a difference in those children in need. say i made $20 donations for tsunami victims and i can see how many gallons of water i provided through UNICEF or how many children i saved in the critical time. say I contributed $70 in general UNICEF fund in 2008 and I can see how many vaccine or food tablet or tents i provided and see pics of children actually using those items from UNICEF. I know UNICEF is the best and effective way to help children, but if I can somehow see that, I will be more motivated to make donations and willing to contribute more. I thought this is a good marketing idea. here is another one. have some kind of small statue with a small bar sticking up. and every $20 of contribution, you get a ribbon or small rings to put on the statue. kind of reminding me that what i have done. I get a letter from UNICEF saying that you for contribution, but to be honest with you. it goes straight to trash....it's boring to read sometimes. but if i have something to decorate my space, i feel good when I receive a letter from UNICEF. ok, last crazy idea. sorry, i am a craz day-dreaming person. create a mutual fund for a cause. yes, i am young and wanna do everything to get paid as much as possible. how about making money and feel good about it. so many people chasing quick and sexy way to get money. but what about feeling. create a mutual fund that benefit companies and contributors that support society, environment, and helping children in need. some of my friend wanna buy a mutual fund focusing on companies that help environment. but there is no such non-sexy naive funds as some managers say. but i love to take my risk to people, profit and non-profit organizations stand for principles and people in need. and get rich! Because of my profession, I know “green” industries are booming and way to go.

I too want to give as much as I can, but it is getting more and more dificult to send much of anything. I'm so inundated with mail asking for help. It makes me feel so sad when I am not able to send anything.I am retired and have only medicare for health insurance. I am 70 years old and for sure I wont be getting any younger and will be having medical costs that wont be covered. Right now I cannot afford a supplmental health insurance plan. I will do all I can to help others, but there will be times that I will not be able to. I do care about others and want to help. I also have oblicgations that I must take care of.

In your comments today, I saw nothing about the issue of conflict and child mortality/morbidity. Yet I think a majority of problems are caused or aggravated by war. In addition to starvation, lack of clean water and sanitation, consider the huge diversion of capital into armaments and property destruction, HIV-AIDS, environmental toxins, lack of education and absence of decent work for childrens's parents. Saving a child from measles just to have him die because crops are destroyed by roving terrorists, witness or be the victim of terrible violence, step on a buried IED or become a victim of AIDS because his mother is a prostitute or a victim of rape--is that "saving him"?

Hello Lucy,

Thank you for the work you do. I am supporting my sponsored child in the Philippines since 1995 through Christian Childrens Fund and also a family in Nairobi, Kenya since 1999 with the two parents enrolled in their respective universities and the three children enrolled in the private school. These efforts require all of my available capital since I am currently completing chemotherapy and radiation therapy in combination. But I will continue to read the blog report on your work, Lucy.

Best Regards and Smooth Sailing,

Eric Hands

Well i thank the organisation of unicef for the surport they are giving to the children,but if i look at all the problems that are being faced by the children,its true that much as we would love to help,every child,it might be alittlehard so my sugestion would be that we can use the parents in senstaising them in how to keep the layed strategys like how to keep there waters clean,keeping the enviroment clean ie toilets,and anthing that might course diseases,like flies,not using latrine etc.Am anew member but if senstaising is ready in place thats very fine.And please am ready to partice partispate in mostly ground work.thank

I would like to help children,but my financial support is too down.I believe my support will be in prayer, may God give UNICEF power to help his children in the world.and my dream is one day to work with UNICEF to help children in different ways.

UNICEF is doing marvellous job in bringing up the children who are needy. Though I am not financially strong, I too want to help these children in someway. Please do tell me what can I do.

Has anyone considered "family planning"? Educating people in how to limit their reproduction so they can better take care of the children they have; be better able to feed the smaller families, take some of the burden off the caregivers and the environment. They could spend more of the recourses on educating their children.