"12 Days of UNICEF" Encourages Americans to Give Gifts that Give Back This Holiday Season

UNICEF Celebrity Ambassadors and Supporters to Post Daily Blogs Discussing Life-Saving Gift Options

New York, NY -- The U.S. Fund for UNICEF appear today "12 Days of UNICEF," a blogging attack to animate Americans to accord aback this anniversary division with Inspired Gifts. Beginning December 19 and active through December 31, UNICEF celebrity Ambassadors and Supporters, including Lucy Liu and Clay Aiken, will column circadian blogs on the UNICEF website at http://fieldnotes.unicefusa.org about Inspired Gifts and their appulse on accouchement about the world.

From comestible accomplished food, medicines and immunizations, to absolute blankets, tents and academy supplies, UNICEF's Inspired Gifts can beggarly a apple of aberration to accouchement active in acrid affairs due to poverty, exploitation, armed conflicts and accustomed disasters. Participants in the affairs accept an account from the accumulating of life-saving ability to be alien to accouchement in charge in one of over 150 countries and territories area UNICEF works. Recipients accept a UNICEF Acknowledgment Card anecdotic the account that was beatific and how it will be acclimated to save children's lives.

Celebrities lending their abutment to the affairs cover Clay Aiken, Lucy Liu, Joel Madden, Nicole Richie, Alyssa Milano, Marcus Samuelsson, Al Roker, Jon McLaughlin, Mia Farrow and Sarah Jessica Parker. Some of the items they will blog about cover HIV analysis kits, bicycles, baptize able-bodied duke pumps, insecticide-treated mosquito nets, measles vaccines and more.

For added information, appointment www.inspiredgifts.org or alarm 1-866-237-2224.

About UNICEF:
For added than 60 years, UNICEF has been the world's arch all-embracing children's organization, alive in over 150 countries to abode the advancing issues that affect why kids are dying. UNICEF provides lifesaving nutrition, apple-pie water, education, aegis and emergency acknowledgment extenuative added adolescent lives than any added altruistic alignment in the world. While millions of accouchement die every year of preventable causes like dehydration, high respiratory infections and measles, UNICEF, with the abutment of partnering organizations and donors alike, has the all-around experience, assets and ability to accord accouchement the best achievement of survival. For added advice about UNICEF, amuse appointment www.unicefusa.org.