How can you support UNICEF?
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Can I make a donation to UNICEF?
You can change the conditions that children in our world live in. In order to carry out their work, UNICEF depends entirely on voluntary contributions from governments, individuals and private companies. You can make a direct donation via the Internet. For more information, please go to: http://www.supportunicef.org/
Can I volunteer to help with UNICEF’s work?
Our office hasn’t got the logistical capacity to place volunteers in the projects we support as part of our Programme of Cooperation with the Dominican Government.
At a global level, UNICEF assigns international volunteers through the United Nations Volunteers Programme, which requires people with specialist skills and a long-term commitment. For more information you can access the United Nations Volunteers Programme website. http://www.unv.org/
There are also a number of local organisations that promote social voluntary work in the country. These include: Sirve Quisqueya http://www.comunicate.org.do/c/index.html and the International Association of Social and Economic Science Students (AIESEC), http://www.aiesec.net/.
Can I do a work placement at UNICEF?
Although the UNICEF Santo Domingo office does not have a work placement programme, it does offer occasional opportunities for work experience placements, depending on the needs of the projects under way.
The aim of this initiative is to offer the trainee an opportunity to acquire new knowledge and a working experience in the area of development work, while supporting specific parts of the office’s work.
For more information about work experience opportunities, as well as the application requisites, please contact our office.
Would you like to be a cooperating company?
Business and the community
The business community is becoming more and more conscious of the fact that its role in society can not be limited to simply offering goods and services, and companies they need to participate actively in activities with a social goal.
Some sectors think that this trend is merely a public relations exercise, while others believe that companies have the duty to invest part of their profits to the benefit of the community. This is known as social responsibility.
Since its early years, UNICEF has cooperated and continues to work with the private sector with the aim of increasing its capacity to respond to the demands of ensuring and protecting the rights of children and adolescents in the Dominican Republic.
o We are looking for companies with a commitment to and respect for social development, human rights and the environment. New business alliances that support the work to ensure the rights, survival and development of the country’s youngest citizens.
o We are looking for companies to accompany us in achieving our public image and enhancing it according to our mission.
Dominican companies allied with UNICEF
In the last few years, companies like the Hard Rock Café Santo Domingo, PriceSmart Dominicana, S.A. and CCN have made significant contributions to the promotion of Children’s Rights, through donations of funds and others through supporting advertising campaigns. Benetton, Myrurgia and MasterCard have also contributed, through their local representatives, supporting the placement of advertising campaigns in the national media, messages on their products and cash support.
Recent support
Hard Rock Café Santo Domingo
Since 2006, the Hard Rock Café in Santo Domingo and UNICEF have worked as part of a strategic alliance, in which Hard Rock Café has supported the costs of UNICEF’s work on HIV-AIDS in the Dominican Republic. They have been supporting a project that contributes to improving care and treatment for children with AIDS through the Department for Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS Control (DIGECITSS) in the municipality of Los Alcarrizos, and in the province of Azua.
PriceSmart Dominicana, S.A.
In November 2006 PriceSmart Dominicana, S.A. joined forces with UNICEF in an alliance which aims to increase public awareness about the importance of early childhood and to raise funds for use in supporting activities that ensure that children are provided with a good start in life, by giving thousands of Dominican children access to childcare centres.
Sale of UNICEF greeting cards and gifts
UNICEF greeting cards are the world’s most famous cards associated with a social cause. They achieve a triple purpose: the personal satisfaction of greeting our loved ones, the satisfaction that is felt by the special people receiving the greeting, and the third, the fact that the funds generated from the sales are used to benefit Dominican children.
All proceeds from the sale of UNICEF greeting cards and gifts are invested in the country.
Join us! BUY UNICEF GREETING CARDS AND GIFTS!
Show Room
Calle Roberto Pastoriza No. 16, Edificio Diandy XIII, Suite 4NE, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.
Tel: 809-565-2543
Fax: 809-567-9219
E-mail: tarjetasunicef@yahoo.com
Everything you buy will help a Dominican child. Show your interest in the well-being of Dominican children.
