2005-2006

Accomplishments

 

Summary of Activities (2005-2006):

  • Spoke to all Honors first-year students about the Chapter during UNV 101
  • Co-sponsored a trip to the UN with the HonorsCollege
  • Raised funds for the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Program
  • Organized a Halloween Party, with all profits donated to UNICEF
  • Co-sponsored the viewing of Hotel Rwanda with the HonorsCollege to all Honors students
  • Co-sponsored decorating at a residential treatment center with the HonorsCollege
  • Organized a recycling Program of ink cartridges and old cell phones
  • Tabled at a sweatshop awareness event
  • Organized a bake sale during a presentation from a survivor of the

    Rwanda genocide
  • Organized a Hunger Banquet with a presentation on the UN’s Millennium goals
  • Organized a presentation from Solar Cookers International Developed fact sheets on hunger, poverty, AIDS/HIV, and children’s issues for awareness on campus
  • Created a list-serve to e-mail all members at once Created a Facebook club account
  • Made UNICEF posters and sidewalk chalked during some meeting about our events

 

Summary of our Spring 2006 Semester:

         Pace University's UNICEF C.H.I.L.D Project, under the Pforzheimer Honors College, in Pleasantville has been able to raise $855.00 this past spring 2006 semester for the US Fund for UNICEF, all together raising $1,604.48 this academic year. Through bake sales, a hunger banquet, the distribution of Trick or Treat boxes, and numerous donations, this organization has been able to make a difference its first year in existence.

Just think that with the money raised, three cents can protect and boost one child's immune system and prevent blindness for a year with Vitamin A capsules, $1.00 can immunize one child against polio for life, and $2.50 can provide a child with basic school supplies, including notebooks, pencils, rulers, erasers, and scissors.

Our two big events for the spring 2006 semester were presentations from the United Nations Millennium Project and Solar Cookers International. Through a hunger banquet, a representative from the United Nations spoke about the UN’s Millennium goals and the need for ending world hunger. Pace students, faculty, and staff were separated for the presentation based on low/middle/high income, and dinned on food based on this income. We were able to raise $715 for the US fund for UNICEF through this one event.

Our last event of the semester was a presentation by Solar Cookers International, which encouraged solar cooking as a sustainable, safe, convenient, dependable, and economical way to cook in sun-rich parts of the world. Over 110 Pace students, faculty, and staff attended this event!

  The UNICEF C.H.I.L.D. Project wants to thank all those involved with this organization, for they are making a tremendous difference in the lives of needy children with the money they have raised.

The organization strives to promote the survival, protection, and development of the world’s children by advocating, educating, and fundraising. The primary goal of the organization is to encourage activism within the Pace University community by educating its members about the perils facing children and by providing opportunities to make a difference.

  If any student wants to get involved in the UNICEF C.H.I.L.D Project, please contact Prof. Christopher Walther at cwalther@pace.edu or 914-773-3961.