Aid programs #2

Question 1

United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI)

Answer 1

It also seeks to ensure that, by 2015, all children complete primary schooling, with girls and boys having equal access to free, quality education.
To improve low literacy rates

Key strategies:

• An enhanced focus on marginalized and excluded groups;
• The reduction/elimination of school-related gender-based violence;
• Improved learning outcomes for girls; and
• An increased number of girls transitioning to secondary education and accessing post-primary opportunities.

Multilateral aid

Do?
brings organizations and individuals throughout the region together to amplify a collective voice on critical issues framing gender and education in the region.

Question 2

World Vision Food For Work Program

Answer 2

Food for Work program is helping families meet their food needs, while also uniting them on projects that will benefit entire communities for years to come.

REASON:
Laos is one the most disadvantaged nations in Southeast Asia. The majority of people live in rural villages, without access to basic facilities like clean water, healthcare, education and electricity.

NGO Aid

Do?: Food for Work program funded by World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine is bringing local families together to work on community development initiatives. In return, each worker receives 6.5 kilograms of sticky rice per day for their family.
- Roads and bridges constructed

Expand rice fields

Question 3

The Global Fund (UN/AIDS)

Answer 3

Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria mobilizes and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support programs

• Multilateral aid

DO?:
The Global Fund and its partners around the world have worked to ensure that as many people as possible have access to treatment

Question 4

United Nations Foundation - Nothing
 But Nets (MALARIA)

Answer 4

families worry that their children will get bitten by a disease-carrying mosquito, but one $10 bed net can mean the difference between life and death.

DO?
Nothing But Nets focuses on providing insecticide-treated bed nets to families across Sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate contact with mosquitos

Multilateral aid

Question 5

UNICEF - World Immunisation Week

Answer 5

World Immunization Week is held each year at the end of April and to help refocus public attention on the importance of vaccination for all children

multilateral aid

Question 6

UNHCR WASH program?

Answer 6

aims to ensure that refugees have safe access to water of sufficient quality.

The focus on the WASH program is to educate communities and individuals about the importance of clean water, sanitation and adequate hygiene.
The program also works to assist communities in implementing appropriate practices

multilateral aid