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| UN Secretary General Annan (left) and his Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, Adolf Ogi (right), join UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin at the Geneva launch of ninemillion.org, a global campaign to provide education and sport for the world’s nine million refugee youth. |
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| Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was one of the keynote speakers at a ceremony held this morning at National Geographic's Washington, D.C., headquarters to commemorate World Refugee Day 2006. |
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UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, has partnered with Right To Play, Nike and Microsoft via MSN to launch a global awareness campaign, ninemillion.org, to provide education and sport for the world’s 9 million refugee youth.
Donations raised through the campaign will support learning and play through:
• access to education and IT skills training
• access to customized sport and play programs
• gender sensitivity and peace education programs for war-torn communities
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I moved here with my family in 2000.
My family is planning to move to the United States, but I would like to return to Myanmar some day. My favorite football player is Ronaldo. I like to play football because it makes me happy and strong. |
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Someone who flees her or his country because of well founded fear of persecution. Today, UNHCR cares for 20.8 million people in 117 countries: refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, asylum seekers and other categories. Nine million of them are refugee youth who need our help. The figures here illustrate the severity of the problem.
UNHCR has counted 20.8 million refugees worldwide, of which:
9,022,778 are children
2,053,100 are “stateless people”
839,200 are “asylum seekers” who have fled their own country for fear of persecution |
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$25 = sends one refugee girl to school for a year
$50 = provides a refurbished computer to a refugee school
$100 = supports education and sport-based programs
$275 = trains one new refugee teacher for a community school
$500 = buys 25 sport equipment kits for health programs
We can’t do it without you.
The Nike Foundation will match the first (US) $1 million donated. |
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