Clay Aiken: Help kids in emergencies stay in school

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 SRI LANKA: Eight-year-old Shahid carries a batch of exercise books at Ak-Al Badr Nagar Vidyalaya School in the eastern district of Ampara. The books, which bear the UNICEF logo, are from a shipment of Schools-in-a Box.

For the final 12 days of 2008, UNICEF celebrity Ambassadors and supporters are posting daily blog entries about the impact UNICEF Inspired Gifts are having on children around the world. Every child has a right to an education. Often times in emergency situations, it becomes harder than ever for children to go to school. Natural disasters and conflict often destroy schools and supplies, leaving children without a place or the tools to learn. UNICEF works hard to make sure that children receive an education no matter what the obstacle. For just $186 you can send children in need a School-in-a-Box kit, offering an opportunity to an education that otherwise wouldn't exist. Just think"one kit provides a temporary school for up to 80 children at a time in an emergency!

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As you count down the twelve days this holiday season, think of these children who have nothing but hope"don't turn your back on a child's right to education. I am Clay Aiken and I believe in zero.25,000 young children die every day from preventable causes"things like malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of safe, drinkable water. UNICEF believes that number should be zero.

 notebooks.jpg
 © UNICEF/05-0203/Pietrasik
 SRI LANKA: Eight-year-old Shahid carries a batch of exercise books at Ak-Al Badr Nagar Vidyalaya School in the eastern district of Ampara. The books, which bear the UNICEF logo, are from a shipment of Schools-in-a Box.

For the final 12 days of 2008, UNICEF celebrity Ambassadors and supporters are posting daily blog entries about the impact UNICEF Inspired Gifts are having on children around the world. Every child has a right to an education. Often times in emergency situations, it becomes harder than ever for children to go to school. Natural disasters and conflict often destroy schools and supplies, leaving children without a place or the tools to learn. UNICEF works hard to make sure that children receive an education no matter what the obstacle. For just $186 you can send children in need a School-in-a-Box kit, offering an opportunity to an education that otherwise wouldn't exist. Just think"one kit provides a temporary school for up to 80 children at a time in an emergency!

ClayAiken-IG.jpg 

As you count down the twelve days this holiday season, think of these children who have nothing but hope"don't turn your back on a child's right to education. I am Clay Aiken and I believe in zero.25,000 young children die every day from preventable causes"things like malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of safe, drinkable water. UNICEF believes that number should be zero.

 notebooks.jpg
 © UNICEF/05-0203/Pietrasik
 SRI LANKA: Eight-year-old Shahid carries a batch of exercise books at Ak-Al Badr Nagar Vidyalaya School in the eastern district of Ampara. The books, which bear the UNICEF logo, are from a shipment of Schools-in-a Box.

For the final 12 days of 2008, UNICEF celebrity Ambassadors and supporters are posting daily blog entries about the impact UNICEF Inspired Gifts are having on children around the world. Since becoming a UNICEF Ambassador, Clay Aiken has visited children struggling to survive amid emergencies in Afghanistan, Uganda, Somalia and Indonesia. Every child has a right to an education. Often times in emergency situations, it becomes harder than ever for children to go to school. Natural disasters and conflict often destroy schools and supplies, leaving children without a place or the tools to learn. UNICEF works hard to make sure that children receive an education no matter what the obstacle. For just $186 you can send children in need a School-in-a-Box kit, offering an opportunity to an education that otherwise wouldn't exist. Just think"one kit provides a temporary school for up to 80 children at a time in an emergency!

ClayAiken-IG.jpg 

As you count down the twelve days this holiday season, think of these children who have nothing but hope"don't turn your back on a child's right to education. I am Clay Aiken and I believe in zero.25,000 young children die every day from preventable causes"things like malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of safe, drinkable water. UNICEF believes that number should be zero.