The MSC Foundation has raised a total of 12 million euros for UNICEF’s global programmes for children. This is a major milestone in the partnership’s 13-year history.
The MSC Foundation has helped UNICEF to support education for children in Brazil, assist in the food supplement programme preventing child malnutrition in China, and deliver lifesaving ready-to-use therapeutic food treatments to children with severe acute malnutrition in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Malawi.
Funding from the foundation is also supporting the UNICEF education programme «Plastic Waste to Classrooms» in Côte d’Ivoire, where 1.6 million children currently do not attend school, partly due to the insufficient number of classrooms available. In 2019, the MSC Foundation stepped in as the first partner to support this programme. The initiative is empowering women waste collectors by training them to recycle plastic waste into innovative bricks. The bricks are used to build eco-friendly modern classrooms.
«We are extremely grateful that our partnership with the MSC Foundation has reached yet another impressive milestone», said Bettina Junker, CEO of UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein. «We highly appreciate the MSC Foundation’s generous support and powerful awareness-building around UNICEF’s work. We look forward to the next chapter in our partnership and are excited to continue driving change for children and young people every day.»