- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | BB20-0304 |
| Description: | UNICEF |
| Country or State: | Guinea |
| Year: | 12.12.1966 |
| Face Value: | 50 GFr - Guinean franc |
| Series: | 20th Anniversary of UNICEF |
| Perforation: | line13½ |
| Printing: | Photogravure |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 25 x 36 mm |
| Catalog Number: | Michel GN 408 Stamp Number GN 448 Yvert et Tellier GN 299 Stanley Gibbons GN 573 |
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is one of the members of the United Nations Development Group and its Executive Committee. UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. Maurice Pate, American humanitarian and businessman, co-founded the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with Herbert Hoover in 1947. Pate served as its first executive director from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations System and its name was shortened from the original United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund but it has continued to be known by the popular acronym based on this previous title. |
