UNICEF Global Parents make a powerful contribution to the world's children. Your donations are used in many different ways.

When you join UNICEF's Global Parent Program, your regular monthly contribution goes beyond helpful one-off donations or sponsorship of a single child. Your contributions enable UNICEF to help children and their families both at a grass-roots level building sustainable communities, and at a macro political level, lobbying and influencing governments to make changes that help children survive and thrive. UNICEF has the global authority to influence decision-makers, combined with the ability - and the network of partners - to help individual children.

As well as setting up schools, providing basic healthcare and ensuring clean water supplies UNICEF also works to create large-scale developments for children. For example, negotiating 'days of tranquility' between warring factions to enable aid workers to access dangerous areas to help children, or lobbying governments to abolish school fees so that poor children can go to school.

UNICEF believes that sustainable development is the key to a successful future - providing people in developing countries with the supplies, skills and infrastructure they need to look after themselves and their communities once UNICEF personnel leave.

As a UNICEF Global Parent you will receive regular updates on the work you are helping make possible. And each July you will receive a single, consolidated tax receipt to assist you in your tax return preparation.

You can give via your credit card or by direct debit from your bank account. And of course, you can alter your donation at any time.

UNICEF GLOBAL PARENTS EFFECT GLOBAL CHANGE. 

UNICEF's work is global in size and scale, so a UNICEF Global Parent's regular monthly donation provides for not just one child, in one village, in one country - but for many children who desperately need your help in any of the over 150 developing countries and territories where UNICEF works.

It is an enduring commitment that helps children survive and develop through the key stages of childhood, making their world a brighter place. 

In 2006, in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF immunised over 33 million Bangladeshi children against measles - in just 20 days. Measles is still one of the world's most deadly diseases, killing almost 800,000 children a year in developing countries.

In 2003, UNICEF lobbied the government of Kenya to provide free primary education for every Kenyan child. As a result, all school fees were abolished, allowing 1.5 million children from poor families to experience their first day of school. 

One of the key benefits of this program is that we know in advance the extent of the funds we can commit - allowing us to plan effectively and to transfer funds where the need is greatest, quickly. It also means that our reach can be truly global - planning and delivering programs for all children, including those in countries and areas which never make the news, as well as more well-known development 'hot-spots'.

To become a UNICEF Global Parent, please call 1300 134 071. Alternatively, click here to download a sign-up form. Once completed, please return the form via mail to:

UNICEF Australia
PO Box 488
Queen Victoria Building NSW 1230

or via fax:

1300 780 522

On behalf of the world's children, thank you.