Posted
on December 11, 2013
An
acronym is an abbreviation formed by parts of words (usually the
first letter of each word) that is pronounced as a word.
FBI
is a familiar abbreviation (it stands for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, as I'm sure you know), but it isn't an acronym,
because we don't pronounce it as a word such as feeby; instead
we pronounce each letter name. NASA, on the other hand, is
an acronym. It is an abbreviation that stands for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration—but it is pronounced as a
word.
UNICEF
is an acronym that is based on an old name for a wonderful
organization. After World War II, the United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund was created to provide immediate emergency
food and health care to children.
Now
it isn't necessarily just an emergency fund; instead, UNICEF works
for children's rights and well-being around the globe with many
long-term non-emergency programs as well as programs that help with
disaster relief. So the name has been streamlined to the United
Nations Children's Fund. However, rather than moving to the
unpronounceable UNCF, the organization kept the already-popular
UNICEF.
Since
UNICEF was begun on this date in 1946, today is its 67th
birthday.
UNICEF
is still collecting donations to help children in the Philippines,
which was so devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. An estimated 6.7 million children were affected by the storm!
Children
in Canada and the United States sometimes collect pennies for
UNICEF—and these seemingly tiny donations have exceeded four
million dollars per year. Today, on UNICEF's birthday, might be a
great day to start a penny-collecting fundraiser for the worthwhile
programs. (Hint: if someone doesn't have pennies, take nickels,
dimes, whatever they want to donate!)
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