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Mayor's U.N. Day Dinner: Oct. 18

Speaker: Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pasoce

Join Mayor Mark Funkhouser in welcoming United Nations Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pascoe to Kansas City October 18. USG Pascoe will be addressing the Mayor's United Nations Day Dinner celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the United Nations.

Additional details will be available soon.

Memorial service held March 9 for 101 UN staff who died in Haiti Earthquake

New York -- 101 candles were lit during a memorial service held at UN HQ in memory of 101 UN staff who lost their lives during the Haiti earthquake. A moving tribute may be accessed on the UN web site at www.un.org.

The honored dead:

Ms. Margareth Alexandre, World Bank, Haiti

Corporal Raed Faraq Alkhawaldeh (Jordan)

Major Ata Issa Almanasir (Jordan)

Mr. Lionel Amar, UN Police (France)

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JCCC Model United Nations team receives at Mid-West MUN

UN Under-Secretary General to address Mayor's UN Day Dinner Oct. 29

United Nations Under-Secretary-General Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, will the guest speaker at the 39th annual Mayor's UN Day Dinner, which will take place on Thursday, Oct. 29, 7:00 p.m., in Pierson Auditorium, University of Missouri--Kansas City. Registration is available on this page. For further information on USG Coomaraswamy's visit to Kansas City and her biography, click UNA-GKC News

Dr. Nicholas Comninellis to receive K.C. World Citizen of the Year Award 2009

Dr. Nicholas Comninellis, founder and president of the Institute for International Medicine, will receive the K.C. World Citizen of the Year Award 2009 at the 39th annual Mayor's UN Day Dinner. For additional information and a biography, click here.

Peacekeepers Day 2009

Participants in the U.N. Peacekeeper Roundtable and United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City board members, standing, from the left: Dr. Ewa Unoke, Kansas City Kansas Community College; Major Alexandru Harea of Moldova, Raymond Geselbracht of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Commandant Mark Hearns of Ireland, Major Luis Cepeda of Spain, Major Peter Els of Denmark, Dr. Jimmy Adegoke of the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and kneeling, Abdul Bakar.

K.C. International Food Aid and Development Roundtable

Global Food Security & the Millennium Development Goals

Speakers:

Allan Jury, director, U.S. Relations, U.N. World Food Programme

Ann Tutwiler, coordinator, Global Food Security, U.S. Department of Agriculture

David Del Conte, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Dale Skoric, Food for Peace, U.S. Agency for International Development

Additional details to follow.

Monday, August 2, 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Westin Crown Center Hotel

1 East Pershing, Kansas City, MO

Century Ballroom C

There is no charge for this program. We request RSVP for headcount.

RSVP to unagkc@aol.com or jaysjerven@aol.com, or call 816 569-4523 for additional information

UN Peacekeeper's Day in Greater Kansas City

Saturday, May 22

Participants in the 2010 U.N. Peacekeepers Roundtable and U.N.A. members and friends gathered at the U.N. Peace Plaza in Independence to pay tribute to the 97 peacekeepers who died in the Haiti earthquake. Earlier, eight military officers from eight nations shared their experiences as U.N. peacekeepers in a program at The Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

To join the Greater Kansas City Chapter online,

please connect with www.unausa.org/kansascitychapter

Emergency assistance to Haiti

What you can do!

Top left, children eating emergency food rations supplied by the United Nations World Food Program and distributed by U.N. peacekeepers (UN photo, Marco Dormino); middle right, U.N. peacekeepers from Bolivia distribute food to hungry children (UN photo, Marco Dorminio); top right, U.N,. Special Envoy to Haiti, former-President Bill Clinton, visits with doctors providing care to earthquake victims. Bottom left, MINUSTAH staff member mourns for co-workers during memorial service in Port-au-Prince (UN photo, Logan Abassi); nurse provides care to injured man at a U.N. medical station (UN photo, Logan Abassi); the homeless and injured take refuge in the medical station (UN photo, Logan Abassi); bottom right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the memorial service in Port-au-Prince honors MINUSTAH staff who died in the earthquake (Logan Abassi).

World Food Program rushes aid to the hungry of Haiti

"It is vital that the response from the global humanitarian community matches the immense needs of the people of Haiti," Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program said Monday, Jan. 18.

Executive-Director Sheeran said the W.F.P. aims to provide the equivalent of 10 million ready-to-eat meals in the next week to people who have no access to cooking facilities or even clean water. The W.F.P. has appealed to military forces around the the world to donate 100 million ready-to-eat meals "so we can sustain this lifeline of food to the hungry in the first phase of the emergency." Later, the W.F.P. will transition to general food distribution of items such as rice, vegetable oil, dried beans and lentils. Haiti will require emergency food assistance for several months.

Ms. Sheeran said the W.F.P. is establishing four humanitarian hubs to deliver food assistance in Port-au-Prince and at least 30 other hubs at locations across Haiti. The W.F.P. has appealed for $279 million to support its relief operations in Haiti. Through Jan. 19, the W.F.P. has received more than $60 million from governments, about $6 million from the private sector and $2.5 million from individuals donating on-line.

Members of the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City raised $627 for the W.F.P.'s Haiti mission during their annual meeting on Friday, Jan. 5.

YOU CAN HELP.

The Friends of the World Food Program, which raises funds for the W.F.P. in the U.S., urges individual to donate to the W.F.P.'s Haiti operation.

Donations may be made:

On-line at www.friendsofwfp.org or

www.wfp.org

On the phone by calling 1 866-929-1694

By text message by texting FRIENDS to 90999 to give $5 with your mobile phone

U.N. Under-Secretary-General addresses Mayor's U.N. Day Dinner

October 29, 2009

 Radhika Coomaraswamy

U.N. Under Secretary-General &

Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict