Help Children Around the World this Year through Trick-or-Treating!
By Lisa Novick of Yes Kidz Can
Sixty years ago this Halloween, UNICEF inspired ghosts and goblins in neighborhoods across America to take to the streets and gather small change while trick-or-treating. Six decades later, kids everywhere continue to make a big difference helping UNICEF to provide nutrition, medicine, education and other necessities essential for healthy kids.
Photo Credit to UNICEF
By collecting mere coins, kids can make a big difference:
- $120 will immunize 171 children against polio disease for life;
- $68 will buy 10,000 water purification tablets; and
- $300 will provide enough packets of therapeutic nut spread to feed 193 malnourished children a day.
This Halloween, rally kids in your neighborhood, scouting organization or other favorite group of friends to help their peers around the world by collecting coins.
Just click Halloween Party, and register to receive all kinds of materials and resources to make it a spooktacular event. Or, go online, create a web page using their tools, and invite friends to “trick-or-treat” online. Believe it or not, there’s even an application for trick-or-treating using mobile phones. And, some kids may be motivated knowing that Selena Gomez, star of Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place is the national spokesperson for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF and will be busy getting kids to fill up their boxes and throw parties as well!
UNICEF has made it easy and fun to make Halloween a family tradition that includes spirits of the spooky and generous kind!
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Lisa Novick is a Co-Founder of YesKidzCan!, a do-good company that helps raise kids who like to give.
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Complete Your Halloween Party with Fun Classroom Decorations
For all you do-gooder's out there this Halloween week, here are freakishly FREE Halloween Printables from Julie over at LeelouBlogs!
- Use them for quick Teacher Gifts
- Hand out to your soccer team-mates
- Say Happy Halloween to your favorite Volunteer!
Simply click over to her website and download these ready to print cards. Choose cards with silly jokes, or choose cards with a plain frame to write your own thought or add a photo.
Or how about a too cute Halloween banner for your kid's School Class party?
