UNICEF
Randy Debber (letter, Sept. 29) couldn’t be more wrong. This year the U.S. Committee for UNICEF is celebrating a half-century of working for a world of children free from poverty. With a budget one-third that of the Chicago school system, UNICEF provides lifesaving medicines, clean water, nutrition and education in over 140 countries.
Many gains have been made in 50 years, but the struggle to meet children’s needs and protect their rights is far from over. Every child is our child.
Ted Turner’s gift is a recognition on his part of the terrible guilt of all U.S. citizens. Our informed citizenry is terribly conscious of the fact that we would need six earths, should all the nations on this planet live as wastefully as we do in this overly affluent nation.
MARY LOU SOUTHWORTH
La Verne
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