A Card That Celebrates Giving All Year Long

A greeting card that does a planet of good for children around the planet will now be available year-round.

For the very first time ever, cross media greeting cards carrying the logo of UNICEF-The United Nations Children's Fund-will be offered all by means of the personalized christmas gifts year at participating Hallmark Gold Crown stores. UNICEF has been raising income for its applications from the sale of greeting cards because 1949. To date, over four billion cards have been sold.

The new collection will function 20 diverse varieties of boxed cards packaged in keepsake boxes with an African Kuba-cloth-patterned bottom. Birthday cards, thank-you cards, thinking-of-you cards and blank cards will be included in the collection-the initial developed for UNICEF by Hallmark. Most boxes have 4 styles per box. The cards will be priced among $ten and $20 and come in groups of eight cards with nine envelopes or groups of 20 cards with 21 envelopes.

Because 1947, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF has supported the work of the United Nations Children's Fund by raising assistance for its programs and escalating public awareness of the challenges facing the world's kids.

UNICEF's programs are funded entirely by voluntary contributions and have created a tangible difference in the lives of kids in 155 countries and territories. For example:

• $ten can provide a box of 200 disposable syringes for use in the course of immunization campaigns.

• $12 can provide two lengthy-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets, safeguarding families from malaria, which kills a single African kid every 30 seconds.

• $12 can give 20 packets of high-energy biscuits, specially created for malnourished children in emergency conditions.

• $17 can immunize one kid for life against the six main childhood ailments: diphtheria, measles, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis and whooping cough.

• $20 can get blankets to safeguard five little children from the cold.

Kansas City-based Hallmark is recognized all through the world for its greeting cards, related private expression items, and 1 of television's most honored weddings cards and enduring dramatic series, "Hallmark Hall of Fame." The company publishes goods in a lot more than 30 languages and distributes them in far more than 100 countries.