December 30, 2008 by Tim Saunders
Singer Clay Aiken has blogged on the UNICEF website about the effect UNICEF-inspired gifts are having on children around the world, and has urged people to help give children an education.
“Every child has a right to an education,“ wrote Aiken. “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!“
Since becoming a UNICEF Ambassador, Clay Aiken has traveled to Banda Aceh, Indonesia and Kabul and Bamyan in Afghanistan, raising awareness and funds in support of education. In northern Uganda he witnessed the plight of children called “night commuters”, who flee the villages each night to sleep in streets and shelters in hopes of avoiding being kidnapped by the Lord’s Resistance Army. He spent last Christmas and New Year on a UNICEF trip to Mexico.
“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.”
The full blog can be found here.
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This is a worthwhile cause that I fully support. Clay Aiken's most recent UNICEF mission was to Kenya and Somalia in June 2008.
This is my first visit to your site and I want to do is applaud you for highlighting the good that many celebrities do for their communites and the world.
and a big thanks to Clay for working diligently on behalf of children near and far. He continues to use that glorious voice not just to entertain, but to enlighten and educate.
I would like to thank UNICEF and Clay Aiken for making the world aware of the plight of the children of the world.
I hope that even in these difficult financial times we can dig deep to help this very worth whiolledle cause.
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