United Nations Children s Fund

Unicef

United Nations Children s Fund

United Nations Children's Fund
Abbreviation	UNICEF
Formation	December 1946
Type	Fund
Legal status	Active
Headquarters	New York City
Head	Anthony Lake
Parent organization	ECOSOC
Website	UNICEF official site

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. Ludwik Rajchman, a Polish bacteriologist, is regarded as the founder of UNICEF and was its first chairman from 1946 to 1950.^[3] 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.