UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has saved more children’s lives than any humanitarian organization in the world. We are now calling all CUNY students to help us end preventable child deaths.
Every year, 6.9 million children under the age of 5 die of preventable causes. That’s more than the entire population of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island combined. And yet, that is the number of children dying needlessly every year.
Improving child survival will require innovation and new approaches from different fields. UNICEF believes that the dynamic and diverse students in the Honors Program are equipped to offer the type of creative thinking needed to design effective solutions. Therefore on March 11, UNICEF launched a new design competition aimed exclusively at CUNY students: the CUNY Design for UNICEF Challenge.
This is a unique opportunity to tackle some of UNICEF’s toughest challenges to child survival with your own creative solutions. The top three teams will win a chance to travel to a UNICEF field office to test their project, but every participant will make a difference with their energy and ideas.
We invite honors and Baruch students from all disciplines to take the Challenge: join us, learn about the problems, build a team, design solutions, and change the world!
For more information, visit www.fulfillingthepromise.org.
