Kiwi Heroes - UNICEF Children's Foundation

This is a fund set up to provide ongoing funding for UNICEF projects around the world. The difference is that this fund is contributed to by New Zealanders, administered and invested by New Zealanders for the purpose of backing UNICEF projects that New Zealanders choose and participate in.

New Zealanders have a particular contribution to make improving the lives of others. We grow up in an environment that not many of the world's people have the privilege to share and from that advantage we have developed a set of skills, social and political values that can be used to make a difference elsewhere.

The UNICEF CF is a New Zealand initiative to channel that contribution on an ongoing basis to the corners of the world where we can make the most positive impact.

We call it a Kiwi Hero because it is an initiative that utilises a well-established infrastructure — UNICEF's global network — to make Kiwi's contributions to help the disadvantaged, more effective.

UNICEF campaigns with and for the world's children to meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities, enabling them to reach their full potential, irrespective of nationality, religion, politics or ethnicity. UNICEF brings its influence to bear on the individuals and institutions that serve the youngest generation.