Since last June, more than 130,000 refugees—and counting—have entered South Sudan and neighboring countries to escape fighting on the border of Sudan. As the situation worsens, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is providing food, water, and shelter. Living in a country where malaria is the leading cause of death among children under five, the refugee families in South Sudan need another life-saving tool: insecticide-treated bed nets.
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The UN Foundation’s Girl Up campaign will hold its first-ever Girl Up Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. this weekend, bringing together celebrities, women leaders, and hundreds of teens from across the country in an event that will equip girls in the United States with the leadership skills necessary to support girls around the world.
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In less than three months, thousands of Americans have donated to send 150,000 anti-malaria bed nets in response to the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.
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This week, actor and comedian Jonah Hill is celebrating his birthday by asking his fans and supporters to send life-saving bed nets to refugees in the Horn of Africa through the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets — a global, grassroots campaign to fight malaria in Africa.
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March Of Dimes is joining ABC News and the United Nations Foundation in the recently launched Million Moms Challenge.
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Grammy-winning band Linkin Park have stepped up their support of the United Nations’ 2012 Year of Sustainable Energy by launching a new campaign designed to bring a solar light to Haiti this holiday season.
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Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, and UN Foundation Founder and Chairman Ted Turner has spoken up about what the initiative has achieved.
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David Beckham, Jessica Biel, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift will join creator, host and executive producer Nick Cannon in rolling out the orange carpet for this year’s TeenNick HALO Awards.
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ABC News and the UN Foundation have launched an initiative engaging millions of Americans to support millions of moms across the globe around the critical issues of pregnancy, childbirth and children’s health — moms here helping moms worldwide.
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Teen star Victoria Justice has just returned from a trip to Guatemala with the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up initiative, and has been blogging about the experience.
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This week, actress, singer and humanitarian Mandy Moore arrived in Cameroon to raise awareness for the nation’s first-ever countrywide distribution of anti-malaria mosquito nets. Malaria is the number one cause of death in Cameroon among children under five.
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Usher presented Ted Turner, founder and chairman of the United Nations Foundation, with the Service Legacy Award at Friday’s World Leadership Conference in Atlanta, hosted by Usher’s New Look Foundation.
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The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has announced that Academy Award-winning actor Julia Roberts will serve as Global Ambassador, helping to bring attention to one of the most urgent health problems facing women and families around the world: deadly smoke from unsafe and inefficient cookstoves.
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Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, a member of the two-time Grammy winning, multiplatinum band Linkin Park, returned from a trip to Haiti yesterday with the United Nations Foundation to see firsthand how the United Nations is helping Haiti rebuild, fifteen months after a major earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed much of the nation’s infrastructure.
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The UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign has responded to a request from its teen advisors and the thousands of teens who are part of its community to raise awareness about Child marriage and what the UN is doing to help combat this urgent problem.
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Members of Linkin Park today joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Facebook Marketing Director Randi Zuckerberg for a special Facebook Haiti “Town Hall” today.
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Two-time Grammy winning band Linkin Park, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin and Facebook Marketing Director Randi Zuckerberg are set to meet in a unique and interactive Facebook ‘Town Hall’ focusing on Haiti, and using the power of social media to get people involved.
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Nigel Barker, Estelle & Washington Mystics joined hundreds of DC-area teens to help adolescent girls around the world through UN Foundation’s Girl Up campaign on MLK Service Day.
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Mandy Moore is calling on Christmas donations for anti-malaria nets in the Central African Republic.
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The United Nations Foundation and the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) announced last week they are joining forces to build a broader base of citizen support for U.S. engagement and the work of the UN.
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As Nigeria celebrates its 50th anniversary, United Nations Foundation Founder and Chairman Ted Turner was in Nigeria from October 24-25, 2010 to deliver a message to local leaders that Nigeria must keep up the fight against disease by continuing to leverage the power of modern vaccines.
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The showbiz magazine Variety is set to reward teen sensation Justin Bieber with an award for his charity work.
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Mandy Moore helped distribute thousands of long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets last week to families in the Central African Republic (CAR), a country with one of the highest childhood death rates in the world and where malaria is a primary cause of illness and death.
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Nigel Barker, renowned fashion photographer, TV personality and author, announced today that he will be supporting the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign as one of its newest champions, joining the movement to improve the lives of adolescent girls in the developing world.
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Teen actress and singer Victoria Justice announced today that she will join the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign in its mission to educate, protect and empower girls in developing countries. In her role as a Girl Up Champion, Victoria will help inspire other teens to get involved and take action for girls around the world.
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Singer-songwriter and actress Mandy Moore is in the Central African Republic distributing life-saving mosquito nets with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign and Population Services International right now.
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Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan announced today that she will join the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign as a global advocate for adolescent girls. Her leadership will help drive Girl Up’s mission to educate, empower and protect millions of girls around the world.
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The United Nations Foundation will premiere today “A New Picture of Health,” a groundbreaking documentary about the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and its ongoing impact in saving millions of lives – particularly those of women and children – across the developing world.
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Lisa Masterson, medical doctor, television personality and women’s health advocate, announced today that she will join the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign as a global champion for adolescent girls.
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On September 20, as global leaders head to New York for United Nations Week – including a historic summit on global issues known as the “Millennium Development Goals” (MDGs) and the annual General Assembly – Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation will bring together leaders from the digital industry, policy and media worlds for a groundbreaking Social Good Summit focused on how technology and social networks can play a leading role in addressing the world’s most intractable problems.
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