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From left to right: Caryl
M. Stern, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF,
Edward G. Lloyd, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating
Officer of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, and Angelique
Peters-Mayberry, Community Outreach Director, UAW-Ford. |
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Faith-Based
Leaders
raise
$100+K
for
UNICEF's
fight
against
EBOLA in
West
Africa
DETROIT
- On
February
27, 2015
at the
Charles
H.
Wright
Museum
of
African
American
History
in
Detroit,
noted
faith-based
leaders
from the
area and
key
officials
from the
U.S.
Fund for
UNICEF
closed
out
their
first-ever
Black
History
Month
campaign,
I AM #STOPPINGEBOLA,
which
raised
over
$100,000.
The
funds
will
support
the
purchase
of over
2,350
hygiene
kits
that
will be
distributed
in
Liberia
by
UNICEF
to help
control
the
spread
of
Ebola.
At $43
each,
the kits
contain
soap,
chlorine,
gloves,
and
buckets,
among
other
much-needed
hygiene
items,
and will
be
provided
in
households
and
schools
at risk
of the
disease.
From
left to
right:
Caryl M.
Stern,
President
and CEO
of the
U.S.
Fund for
UNICEF,
receives
a
document
proclaiming
February
27, 2015
I AM #STOPPINGEBOLA
Day from
Wayne
County
Executive,
Warren
Evans.
The
Consortium
of Faith
Leaders
represented
some of
the
largest
African
American
organizations
in the
country
with a
combined
membership
of 11
million,
including
Church
Of God
In
Christ,
Inc.,
Pentecostal
Assemblies
of the
World,
Inc.,
National
Baptist
Convention,
USA,
Inc.,
Progressive
National
Baptist
Convention,
Inc. and
Abyssinian
Baptist
Church
in the
City of
New
York.
The
event
included
a number
of check
presentations
along
with a
surprise
donation
from the
UAW-Ford.
A number
of
county
and city
officials
were
also
present
to
welcome
the U.S.
Fund for
UNICEF
to
Detroit
where
the I AM
#STOPPINGEBOLA
campaign
was
honored
with a
proclamation
from the
city.
Key
officials
from the
U.S.
Fund for
UNICEF
first
met with
members
of the
Faith-Based
Leadership
Consortium
in
December
2014 to
outline
a
pathway
for an
ongoing
partnership
to
assist
children
and
families
in
Africa.
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