The advice comes as a steady stream of donations has poured into local, national and international charities in the aftermath of the magnitude-7.0 quake that destroyed much of Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince and left thousands homeless. Unicef Canada spokesman Christopher Tidey said Canadians interested in helping relief efforts should donate money, not supplies, as aid workers clamour to get clean water and emergency shelter to people in need. Tidey said people should do their homework and ensure their money is sent to an established organization with direct links to people in Haiti.
... program coordinator and field officer for UNICEF. She has been employed with UNICEF for over 20 yea...
I'm surprised," [Andrew Collier] chuckled moments after his victory over 15 other teams of local celebrities and media personalities. "We didn't win the championship this year, but this (being named Pumpkin King) is a close second. "We were absolutely thrilled with the event. It's a great way to have fun and make a huge difference in the lives of kids in Africa," said Tricia Schers, regional director of UNICEF Canada's Prairies region.
Ben [Brian Mulroney], host of CTV's Canadian Idol and eTalk, has been appointed as a national ambassador for UNICEF Canada, the network and children's agency announced Tuesday. UNICEF Canada began in 1955 in support of UNICEF's work for children in 155 countries and territories to build awareness among Canadians about issues facing the world's children.
Richard Boli fled war-torn Sudan, first finding refuge in Kenya before immigrating to Canada in 2000. Today, after graduating from the University of Winnipeg where he studied international development, the father of two is a dedicated UNICEF Canada volunteer, participating in the agency's speaker's bureau. I enjoy being with the kids especially when I speak to them and they have a positive response to me," said Boli, who lives in St. Vital. "We have the video images and sometimes I speak about my own experiences and that really helps a lot. They ask a lot of questions -- they want to know what's really happening.
The rates of exposure are extremely similar regardless of the region you're in or the country," says Lisa Wolff, advocacy specialist with UNICEF Canada. "For every 100 homes where domestic violence occurs, children are present in 60 of them.
Canada's record has been a mixed bag. In UNICEF's 2007 report on child well-being in the world's richest countries, Canada ranked in the mediocre middle -- 12th out of 21 countries. Canada did reasonably well in the field of education but faltered badly in areas such as child health and safety, child poverty, teenage births, and child substance abuse. The international record shows children's commissioners (or ombudsmen) to be effective vehicles for the rights of children. It is no accident that in UNICEF's report, the countries that ranked at the top -- Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands -- were also ones with independent children's agencies. Acting as critical watchdogs and raising the profile of children's issues, these offices contributed to progress in children's rights. By keeping ch...
...In Canada, youth unemployment has hit 13.6 per cent, compare...In an additional report, UNICEF reported of the 24 nations in the OECD, Canada ran...
Happiness is defined by Veenhoven (2008) as "the overall appreciation of one 's life-as-a-whole, in short, how much one likes the life one lives" (p. 2, itaUcs in original). Seligman's (2002) work on authentic happiness focuses on an enduring experience of happiness. Sustainable happiness is relevant to essentially every definition of happiness. As a demonstration, consider the momentary pleasure of drinking a cup of coffee. Benefits of attending to and being mindful of the experience have been discussed by Brown and Kasser (2005) and Kabat-Zinn (2005). Viewed through the lens of sustainable happiness, this momentary pleasure can be placed in a wider context. Individuals can attend to whether that cup of coffee is fair trade coffee, which means that workers in the coffee plantation have...
... and life expectancy scores similar to Canada, but which attain these measures with a considerab... 800 municipalities are now registered on UNICEF' s Child Friendly City web site (www.childfriendly...
Don't drink while you're pregnant. If you need help to stop drinking, Health Canada's fetal alcohol spectrum disorder program is there for "children from age zero to six, and women of child-bearing age" to "reduce the number of babies born with FASD" and "support children who are diagnosed with FASD and their families. The UNICEF report also wrings its collective hands over the 20 per cent lower immunization rates for children on reserves than for children in the rest of Canada: "First Nations children subsequently suffer from higher rates of vaccine-preventable diseases . . . We must understand the health status of First Nations children within the broader context of the socio-economic conditions they face. We must also be aware of the inherent inequality in the Canadian governance st...
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