Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com-ids helping kids

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com: "Kids helping kids
Children trick-or-treat for UNICEF to improve lives

BY CARRIE STEINWEG
Times Correspondent

This story ran on nwitimes.com on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:36 AM CDT

Fifty-five years ago, a youth group in Philadelphia brought along milk cartons as they went door to door to trick-or-treat. In those cartons they collected coins for UNICEF, an organization established four years earlier by the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China, which in 1950 was extended to addressing long-term needs of women and children in developing countries around the globe."

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