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Old Trafford echoes with ninemillion.org appeal for refugee children
More than 75,000 diehard soccer fans got an earful about the UNHCR-led ninemillion.org fund raising and awareness campaign for refugee children at a recent crunch match between Manchester United and arch rivals Arsenal. More
UNHCR formally opens campaign to raise US$220 million for education
The UN refugee agency has used the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) summit to formally launch a campaign to raise US$220 million to help children of conflict. More
UNHCR, Red Cross and Microsoft launch a community technology learning centre for refugees in Russia
UNHCR, Red Cross and Microsoft launched a community technology learning centre in the historic city of St. Petersburg in April 2004. The first such centre of its kind, it will provide information technology (IT) access, skills training and education for refugees and asylum seekers, as well as local... More
Local Shell businesses assist refugees in cooperation with UNHCR
Over the years the private sector has provided UNHCR with assistance in its efforts to help refugees around the world. Recently in two separate parts of the globe local Shell businesses have been cooperating with UNHCR in this regard. More
Executives visit UNHCR projects in Africa and pledge more help
Some of UNHCR's top business partners have pledged to continue supporting the UN refugee agency despite the world's most severe economic crisis in decades. The promise came when members of UNHCR's Council of Business Leaders visited Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa last week. More
Nike donates sports gear to Kakuma camp
Nike staff visited Kenya's Kakuma camp in late January 2003 to produce a short film documenting the donation of sports clothing and equipment to the UN refugee agency. Nike and UNHCR agreed that this generous gift of T-shirts, shorts, shoes, socks and balls would benefit the refugee populations in... More
Partnering with UNHCR, Nike reaching out to refugees in Kenya
Nike gave a large donation of shoes and clothing to support sports activities in the Kenyan refugee camps of Kakuma and Dadaab. Soccer, netball, volleyball and wheelchair basketball are all played in the camps. Not only do these activities help people to gain confidence in their own abilities, they... More
UNHCR & business leaders find innovative ways to help refugees in Thailand
The Council of Business Leaders – bringing together corporate heavyweights like Microsoft, Nike, Manpower, Merck and PricewaterhouseCoopers – was set up two years ago to advise UNHCR on how to be more business-like in carrying out its humanitarian work. It's important to apply "the rigours of the... More
"Fotola" - Microsoft and UNHCR team up to better protect refugees
"Fotola" – Burundi vernacular for "photo" – was his only hope when he suddenly found his name no longer on the food distribution list meaning he was no longer eligible to receive food in the camp. Since having a picture taken is the most memorable part of a registration process which enters their... More
Microsoft signed an agreement with UNHCR to provide learning centres for refugees
Microsoft signed an agreement on 12 December 2003 with the UN refugee agency to establish two facilities, in Kenya and Russia, where refugees will be able to learn valuable computing and software skills. More