I was in London during World War II and remember the food rationing. Everything was scarce. Afterward, I served in the British army in Germany and saw children begging for food. It was awful. The United Nations Children's Fund was born in 1946 to address these needs--to help displaced children in Europe.
In 1990 my friend Audrey Hepburn, who had been UNICEF's goodwill ambassador, asked me to be co-host of the Danny Kaye International Children's Awards in Amsterdam and to take part in a UNICEF press conference. I told Audrey I didn't know much about UNICEF. She replied that all the...
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