Issued by India

Issued on Dec 11, 2024

Issued for : To commemorate the 75^th anniversary of UNICEF’s partnership with India, the Department of Posts is proud to release a commemorative postage stamp that honors its crucial role in championing the rights and well-being of children. This initiative celebrates UNICEF’s enduring commitment to improving the lives of millions of children across the nation, ensuring access to health, education, and protection.

Credits :
Stamp/FDC/Brochure/Cancellation Cachet : Mr. Anuj Kumar

Type : Miniature Sheet, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi Colour

Denomination : 1000 Paise

Miniature Sheets Printed : 211000

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

About : 

• Since its inception in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has focused on a single compelling mandate: to protect and support children and young people at risk – no matter who they are and where they live. What mattered to UNICEF was reaching every child in need, and protecting children’s rights to survive, thrive and reach their full potential.
• From the ashes of war to the global challenges that affect millions today, our mandate has never wavered. UNICEF has consistently worked to protect the rights and well-being of all children. Whoever they are. Wherever they live.
• UNICEF began its journey in India in 1949. Since then, UNICEF has partnered with the government and people of India promoting and protecting the rights and wellbeing of children in India. Steadfast in providing development and humanitarian assistance over the past 75 years, UNICEF has been part of India’s history.
• UNICEF has been a committed and trusted partner of the Government of India and State Government programmes to support children to have the best possible start and opportunities in life; to enable children to develop and thrive. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the global Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and India Vision 2047, the collaboration between Government of India and UNICEF for five-year programme of cooperation (2023-2027) contributes to national flagship development goals.
• India is one of UNICEF’s largest and most significant country programmes. As the most populous country, India is home to one in five of the world’s children with a leadership role in accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the SDGs accelerate pace in India, the world is in a better position to meeting the global goals.
• As UNICEF marks 75 years of partnership with India, UNICEF is redoubling its support to children of India, cognizant of emerging realities and needs, and attuned to the priorities for children set by the Government of India.
• Actively engaged in advancing child rights in India since 1949, on the very first year, UNICEF undertook a major public health initiative and supported the establishment of India’s first ever penicillin plant. In 1954, UNICEF helped establish a milk processing plant that brought solution to years of wastage of milk for the lack of preservation facilities. This also enabled the provision of free milk to children.
• In the subsequent years, UNICEF continued to collaborate with the Government of India on a series of milestone initiatives from expanding science education to revolutionizing rural water supply programmes; to responding to calamities including droughts and floods in several states. UNICEF played a key role in malaria and polio eradication.
• UNICEF was involved in championing initiatives to improve child nutrition, health, and education through such partnerships and support as the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, National Mission on Immunization, Polio Eradication, women empowerment projects and support the National Health Mission.
• UNICEF’s most recent efforts with the Government of India to uplift the lives of children includes support to the Swachh Bharat Mission for sanitation and extensive support to the COVID-19 pandemic response. UNICEF’s continued commitment to the well-being of children and communities is unwavering.
• Theme of the overall campaign for UNICEF@75: ‘UNICEF with India’
  • Continue to promote and protect the rights of every child across India, based on shared goals of UNICEF and the Government and people of India to uphold the best interest of India’s children.
• On 10 May 2024, UNICEF marked 75 years of partnership with India. Throughout the year 2024, UNICEF is proud to commemorate the significant milestone with our partners, and stakeholders, celebrating the progress India has made for children, and recommitting to the unfinished agenda by reaching the last mile, and the last child in need.
• The 75^th anniversary is an opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate the progress India has made and to rally support to India accelerating the SDGs for the world, in collaboration with all stakeholders – the government, civil society organizations, law and policymakers and every citizen of India – and advancing the rights of every child.
• UNICEF stands for every right for every child, with our tagline For Every Child. Our mandate is creatively adapted in the lines given below.
  • For every child
    Whoever she is.
    Wherever he lives.
    Every child deserves a childhood.
    A future.
    A fair chance.
    That’s why UNICEF is there.
    For each and every child.
    Working day in and day out.
    In 190 countries and territories.
    Reaching the hardest to reach.
    The furthest from help.
    The most left behind.
    The most excluded.
    It’s why we stay to the end.
    And never give up!
    
• Text : Referenced from content provided by the proponent.

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Issued by India

Issued on Nov 14, 2019

Issued for : India Post is happy to issue this set of two stamps on Child Rights to celebrate Children’s Day, 2019 and to mark the 30^th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as well as 70 years of the presence of UNICEF in India.

Credits :
Stamp/Miniature Sheet/FDC/Brochure/Cancellation Cachet : Smt. Alka Sharma

Type : Miniature Sheet, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi Colour

Denomination : 1500 Paise (2)

Stamps Printed : 500000 each

Miniature sheets printed : 110000

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

About : 

• This year, the Department of Posts and UNICEF joined hands to hold a Stamp Design Contest on Child Rights. This contest served the twin objectives of raising awareness on the subjects of Child Rights as well as Philately among children. The genesis of this collaboration came on one hand from the fact that every year India Post celebrates Children’s Day through the release of Commemorative Postage Stamps and on the other hand from the fact that the year 2019 marks the 30^th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and 70 years of UNICEF’s presence of India. The Stamp Design Contest was held from 7 August to 30 September, 2019 and the prize-winning entries have been adapted as stamps to celebrate Children’s Day.
• Millions of children the world over, are abandoned. They do not get a chance to step into a school. They are left to fend for themselves on the streets. They suffer from many forms of abuse. They do not have access to even primary health care. They are subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment every day. They are children – innocent, young and beautiful – who are deprived of their rights.
• The League of Nations adopted the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924) which enunciated the child’s right to receive the requirements for normal development, the right of the hungry child to be fed, the right of the sick child to receive health care, the right of the backward child to be reclaimed, the right of orphans to shelter and the right to protection from exploitation.
• The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) in Article 25(2) recognized the need of motherhood and childhood to “special protection and assistance” and the right of all children to “social protection”. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959), which enunciated the key principles for the protection of children’s rights.
• Thirty years ago, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood. It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. The Convention defines Child Rights as the minimum entitlements and freedoms that should be afforded to every citizen below the age of 18 regardless of race, national origin, colour, gender, language, religion, opinions, wealth, birth status, disability or other characteristics. The Convention classifies the fundamental rights that should be afforded to children into four broad categories:
  • Right to Survival: Right to be born, minimum standards of food, shelter and clothing, right to live with dignity and access to health care, to safe drinking water, nutritious food, a clean and safe environment and information to help them stay healthy. Children have the right to an adequate standard of living, education and services and to play and recreation.
  • Right to Protection: Right to be protected from all sorts of violence, neglect, physical and sexual abuse and dangerous drugs. This includes the right to safe places for children to play; constructive child rearing behavior and acknowledgement of the evolving capacities of children.
  • Right to Participation: Right to freedom of opinion, freedom of expression, freedom of association, information and participation in any decision making that involves him/her directly or indirectly. Children have the right to participate in communities and have programs and services for themselves. This includes children’s involvement in libraries and community programs, youth voice activities etc.
  • Right to Development: Right to education, to learn, relax and play and all forms of overall development – emotional, mental and physical. In the modern context, this includes skill development and equipping every child to prepare for a sustainable future.
• As part of the Contest, children of classes I to XII were invited to draw/paint/sketch their ideas on the theme of “Child Rights”. Eight prizes were announced i.e. First Prize of Rs. 50000, Second Prize of Rs. 25000, Third Prize of Rs. 10000 and five Consolation Prizes of Rs. 5000 each. Based on the selected entries, philatelic items viz. Stamps, Miniature Sheet, First Day Cover, Brochure are designed and are being released on the occasion of Children’s Day 2019. The first three winners are Ms. Nidhi Rahul Mhatre, Ms. Vibhushi Agarwal and Ms. Deepali Midha. Five consolation winners are Master Rupam Mahanty, Ms. Vaidehi Vikas Shirsath, Ms. Arya Thapa, Master Sarvesh Suresh Joshi and Ms. Kratika Chittoriya.
• Text : Sh. Pallab Bose

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Issued by India

Issued on Dec 11, 1986

Issued for : The Department of Posts is happy to issue a set of two stamps on the occasion of the 40^th Anniversary of UNICEF.

Description of Designs : The set of two stamps of 50 p and 500 p denominations depicting the themes “immunization of the Child” and “growth monitoring” have been designed by India Security Press, Nashik Road. The First Day Cover depicts the UNICEF logo. The cancellation design depicting the 40^th anniversary logo has been prepared by Miss Nenu Bagga.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Colour : Multi colour

Denomination : 50 & 500 Paise

Overall size : 3.91 x 2.90 cms.

Printing size : 3.55 x 2.54 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Paper : Imported unwatermarked adhesive gravure coated stamp paper

Number Printed : 15,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• On December 11, 1986, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) completes 40 years of work on behalf of children. During those four decades, UNICEF has worked steadily with national governments to protect the lives of children and to promote their development.
• UNICEF was created at the first session of the United Nations General Assembly. For its first several years – when it was the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund – UNICEF’s resources were largely devoted to meeting the urgent needs of children in post-war Europe and China for food, drugs and clothing. But it became increasingly evident that the needs of children in many other countries constituted another, more ‘silent’, emergency. In December 1950, the General Assembly redirected the Fund’s mandate to programmes of long-range benefit ti children in developing countries. In October 1953, the General Assembly decided that UNICEF should continue this work indefinitely and changed its name to United Nations Children’s Fund, although the well-known acronym “UNICEF” was retained.
• In 1965, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to UNICEF, recognizing that the well-being of today’s children is inseparable from the peace of tomorrow’s world. UNICEF has worked closely with the Government of India since 1949. Its programme of cooperation in India constitutes its largest commitment to any single country among the 118 with whom it now works. Among the important programmes of cooperation are the push for comprehensive immunization and the control of diarrhoea. India has begun a determined national offensive against the six preventable diseases that now kill nearly one million of its children every year before they reach the age of one. A dynamic five-year crusade to immunize all infants during their first year of life, and all pregnant women, started on 19^th November 1985, late Mrs. Indira Gandhi‘s birth anniversary. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi pledged this programme as a “living memorial” to her concern for the very young.
• India‘s historic new initiatives for her children’s future are being actively supported by UNICEF. This includes a funding commitment for 1985-89 of $ 29 million for the nation-wide immunization measures. The many other spheres of UNICEF cooperation in India also include water and environment sanitation, community education and special training for women. UNICEF’s work depends entirely on voluntary contributions. Government of India’s generous contribution ranks 16^th worldwide.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Oct 28, 1986

Issued for : To highlight the Child Survival Postal campaign, Pakistan Post Office is issuing one postage stamp of 80 Paisa value on October 28, 1986.

Design : Courtesy of UNICEF (Regional Office Islamabad)

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 80 Paisa

Colours : Red, Yellow, Blue and Black

Size of Stamp : 28.65 x 34 mm

Size of Print : 25 x 30.5 mm

Perforation : 13 C

Quantity : 500,000

Number of stamps in a sheet : 40 (forty)

Process of Printing : Litho Offset

Printers : Pakistan Security Printing Corporation

About : 

• The Government of Pakistan and UNICEF are engaged in a cooperative programme to promote child survival and development. Despite the crisis which looms large over the life and health of children in Pakistan, there are sanguine indications that potential for progress is enormous. The technology and the knowledge now exist which can drastically reduce the infant mortality and morbidity rate by mobilising all sections of the society.
• The postal campaign is designed to imbibe the parents with this new knowledge about child protection which can greatly curtail the incidence of disease and death among children within a relatively short space of time. In brief these simple health measures are:
  1. Growth Monitoring
  2. Oral Rehydration Therapy
  3. Immunization
  4. Breastfeeding
• 1. Growth Monitoring:Malnutrition afflicts infants early and is sometimes invisible even to the mothers. It starts a vicious circle which is self perpetuating and claims the lives of thousands of children. For mothers, a visual aid like the growth chart will make the weight gain pattern of the child visible. Weight is a vital measure of health and growth, and malnutrition is the most fundamental cause of childhood debility and ultimate death. The regular plotting of a child’s weight alerts mothers to any flattering in growth, which can then be countered by extra food or medical attention.
• 2. Oral Rehydration Therapy:Acute diarrhoeal diseases are the major killers of children claiming 30 to 40 percent of deaths. Caused through dehydration, such deaths could be averted with oral rehydration solution (ORS), available in a prepackaged mix or easily made at home with three simple ingredients; sugar, salt and clean water.
• 3. Immunization:The six most common infectious diseases which directly claim the lives of almost 60 percent of children in Pakistan are easily immunizable. Under the Accelerated Health Programme launched by the government in 1983, the percentage of children immunized against the major diseases has risen from 2 percent in 1982 to 70 percent in 1986. To reduce infant mortality, Pakistan is committed to achieve complete immunization coverage by 1990. Immunization of infants begins with vaccination of mother during pregnancy against tetanus.
• 4. Breast Feeding:Breast-milk is the ideal infant food, being nutritious and providing immunity against many infections. It is an established fact that the babies fed on the bottle are more vulnerable to malnutrition, diarrhoea, infection and ultimately death. The promotion of breastfeeding is an important determinant of healthy growth and mental development of children.
• Issued by The Director General, Pakistan Post Office, Islamabad.

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A commemorative postage stamp on the 25^th Anniversary of the UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) in India :

Issued by India

Issued on Nov 14, 1974

Issued for : The P & T Department consider it their privilege to highlight the services rendered by the UNICEF in India by the issue of a commemorative postage stamp on the occasion of their 25 years of association with India.

Description of Design : The stamp design is based on a painting by a child, Amita Shah of Baroda.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Multicolour

Denomination : 25 Paise

Overall size : 4.06 X 3.75 cms.

Printing size : 3.7 X 3.3 cms.

Perforation : 14 x 14½

Watermark : Unwatermarked paper

Number Printed : 30,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 30

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• The United Nations Children’s Fund created by the United Nations General Assembly to help the children of war-torn Europe started functioning in India from 1949. Over the past 25 years UNICEF has helped to reinforce the nation’s health infrastructure, providing supplies and equipment for three-fourths of India‘s 5,200 primary health centres and for over a third of its 30,000 sub-centres; expanding the teaching and practice of social paediatrics and obstetrics and of preventive and social medicine; training nurses, basic health workers, auxiliary-nurse-midwives and dais; establishing and supporting transport and equipment maintenance facilities.
• Vital supplies of drugs, vaccines, seeds, garden tools, pump sets, vehicles, well drilling rigs etc. have been kept up by this organisation which has been responsible for supplying 13 major dairy plants with modern equipments.
• The science education programme, launched a few years ago with UNICEF and UNESCO assistance, is helping to prepare India‘s children to deal more effectively with the scientific and technological advances in the rapidly changing world about them.
• During 1973, UNICEF provided 25 hard-rock drilling rigs to India on an emergency basis at a cost of about Rs. 110 lakhs. UNICEF, because of its world-wide supply, purchasing, storage and delivery net-work, is able to respond quickly to such immediate needs. However, UNICEF prefers to concentrate on long-term basic services.
• There are more than 30,000 locations in India where UNICEF assistance is being used for the benefit of children and mothers. During the quarter century of its service in India, over 70 crores of rupees have been spent by this organisation add it expects to spend about 40 crores more during the 5^th Five Year Plan alone.
• India is a member of UNICEF’s 30 nation Executive Board and has contributed to UNICEF’s resources since 1949, its contributions totalling over Rs. 12 crores.
• In addition, people in India buy about ten lakhs UNICEF greetings cards each year, placing India first in sales in Asia, 13^th world-wide. These funds are used to purchase equipment in India, provide stipends for training programmes and towards administrative costs.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Dec 11, 1971

Issued for : To commemorate the 25^th Anniversary of UNICEF, the Pakistan Post Office is issuing a postage stamp of 50-Paisa denomination on 11^th December, 1971.

Design : The format of the stamp is horizontal, the layout consists of the symbol of UNICEF forming the subject of the design, against a turquoise background surrounded by a dark blue border. This border is broad on the left and the bottom sides. Lines indicating the world, the mother holding the child, as well as the letters ‘UNICEF’ and the fiction “25^th Anniversary 1946-1971″ are in red colour. The olive branches are in green colour. The value “50” and the words “Paisa” and “Postage” are in reverse, the letters UNICEF are in light blue against the dark blue panel on the left and the bottom. The words ‘Pakistan‘ in Bengali, Urdu and English are also dark blue and lie below the main design, against a white background.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 50 Paisa

Colour : Vermillion Red, Hookers green, Turquoise and dark blue

Size of stamp : 44.5 x 32.5 m.m.

Size of Print : 41.5 mm x 29.5 m.m.

Perforation gauge : 13 x 13 (c)

Quantity printed : 10,00,000

Number of Stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of printing : Litho offset

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

About : 

• UNICEF came into being on December 11, 1946 in pursuance of the unanimous vote of the United Nations General Assembly. In the beginning, it had limited and temporary functions, having been designed as an emergency measure to ameliorate the plight of children in countries which had been torn apart by war, mostly in Europe. After this immediate post-war emergency was met, however, the emphasis of UNICEF’s work shifted and since then its efforts have been turned towards the chronic needs of the children struggling for life in the developing nations.
• The primary concern of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is to help mobilize the world’s resources to meet the needs of the children in low income countries. Three-fourths of the world’s children live in such countries. About 30,000 of them die every day from lack of proper food or because of insufficient medical care. A majority of them lack the educational and social opportunities they need to grow up as useful citizens of the world. UNICEF tries to encourage and stimulate the efforts of people and governments in every country to do more for children. It helps them by providing the kind of effective international aid that can serve as a lever for mobilizing and co-ordinating local resources and thus create lasting improvements for children.
• UNICEF strives to give today’s children the kind of help which will make them able, tomorrow, to work to abolish the causes of distress. Children who live short and unhappy lives – in poverty, hunger and sickness – are a heavy burden to the world but if they can live long, productive and happy lives, enjoying the advantages of health and education, they are the world’s greatest assets.
• UNICEF aids children in three basic ways :–
  • (1) It helps governments to formulate specific projects to meet the most important needs of children.
  • (2) It purchases supplies and equipment and ships these around the world for use in connection with specific projects in permanent health services, disease control campaigns, nutrition programmes, family and child welfare services, education and vocational training and emergency aid.
  • (3) It provides stipends and grants to help train social service personnel, nutritionists, technicians, teachers, midwives, nurses and other health workers who will work directly with children.
• UNICEF assists developing countries to meet specific problems in six major spheres permanent health services, disease control nutrition, family and child welfare, education and vocational training, and emergency aid.
• In over 100 countries, governments are making sustained efforts to establish and expand maternal and child health services – often including immunization environmental sanitation and health education – as part of broad national health systems UNICEF provides basic technical equipment, vehicles and supplies (in many cases including drugs, milk powder vitamins and soap) to networks of maternal and child health centres and pediatric wards in district hospitals. In all UNICEF has so far helped to equip 33,000 health centres and sub-centres, which provide continuing services for more than 100 million persons, mostly children and mothers.
• Malaria, tuberculosis, yaws, leprosy and trachoma are serious communicable diseases which afflict many millions of children. The prevention and cure of these diseases is now technically feasible in a number of developing countries. UNICEF assists campaigns against such major communicable diseases by providing insecticides and sprayers, drugs and antibiotics, laboratory and clinical supplies, vaccines and health education materials. In one recent year alone, for example, UNICEF provided insecticides that protected 35 million persons in 27 countries from Malaria.
• Issued by The Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 11, 1971 (corresponding to 2028.8.25 V.S.)

Issued by : His Majesty’s Government, Postal Services Dept., Nepal Philatelic Bureau, Kathmandu

Designer : K. Karmacharya

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 1 Rupee

Colour : Max. Con. Blue Grey

Size : 4.06 x 2.28 cms

Perforation : 14 x 14½

Paper : Unwatermarked gummed paper

Quantity : 5,00,000

Sheet : 50

Process : Photogravure

Printer : India Security Press, Nasik Road

About : 

• We celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Children’s Fund. We dedicate ourselves anew to the noblest purpose of all : protecting and enriching the lives of children upon whom the future of all mankind depends.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Dec 11, 1962

Issued for : The Pakistan Post Office has issued this set of stamps to commemorate the 16^th anniversary of UNICEF.

Design : Designed by Max Thoma of the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi.

The designs are intended to convey the whole subject of Child Welfare in symbols on the background forming the word “UNICEF”. The hypodermic syringe represents the provision of all types of medicines; the milk bottle is symbolic of the provision of food; the open book represents all aspect of health education and the toy is symbolic of children’s needs. The word “UNICEF” is indicated at the top left hand corner and below it is given the denomination of the stamp. In the right hand corner are the dates 1946-1962 and at the bottom of the stamp is the word “PAKISTAN” in English, Urdu and Bengali.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 13 & 40 Paisa

Colour :
13–Paisa – Blue, Crimson and Black
40–Paisa – Yellow, Turquoise and Black

Size of the Stamp : 42 mm x 27 mm

Size of Print : 39 mm x 24 mm

Perforation : 14 x 14

Quantities Printed :
13–Paisa – 9,50,000
40–Paisa – 7,00,000

No. of Stamps in each sheet : 100

Process of Printing : Photogravure

Printers : Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., London

About : 

• Of the world’s estimated one billion children, more than half face a short life burdened with hunger and sickness. Many die in infancy; others are disabled by disease or malnutrition. To tackle this problem on a world-wide scale the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was created by the United Nations on December 11, 1946. UNICEF is a part of the United Nations, with a semi-autonomous status. It is governed by a thirty-nation Executive Board which meets regularly to set policy, consider requests, allocate aid and evaluate results. Financing of UNICEF is by voluntary contributions, mainly by Governments, about one hundred of which now contribute annually. In recent years UNICEF allocation of aid have totalled about $ 30 million a year and these are expected to go up.
• Purpose: The function of UNICEF is to help countries improve the welfare of children throughout the world. The Organisation concentrates particularly on three needs of the Children viz. (1) the provision of health services mostly preventive but also curative; (2) control of communicable disease; and (3) improvements of nutrition.To ensure the first, UNICEF supplies equipment not only to large number of hospitals but, also to thousands of Maternity and Child Welfare centres in 72 countries. In Pakistan, UNICEF is helping to establish a projected new Rural Health Scheme. 30 Rural Health Units, each with three sub-centres, have already started functioning and about 30 are to be set up yearly to ensure that preventive health services and medical aid come within the reach of the poorest villagers. The UNICEF aids Training schools for health workers. Daees, the traditional birth attendants, are being provided with special training facilities and basic instruments by UNICEF.
• To help control disease, UNICEF has launched world-wide campaign against such major scourges as Tuberculosis, Yaws, Trachoma, Malaria and Leprosy. In Pakistan, millions of children and adults have been tested and immunised against T.B. To provide urgently needed D.D.T. for anti-malarial operations, UNICEF has helped in setting up a D.D.T. factory at Daudkhel. A penicillin factory, built up with material assistance by UNICEF, is at present manufacturing annually about 8 to 10 tons of penicillin for anti-biotic use for patients at hospitals throughout the country.
• UNICEF is attacking the problem of hunger on many fronts. In Pakistan, skimmed and whole Milk and Vitamins are distributed to Children and their mothers at MCH centres and hospitals. To ensure a regular supply of milk to needy children, UNICEF is providing equipment and transport for a milk conservation plant in Karachi. Similar plants are planned for Lahore, Rawalpindi and Dacca.
• The Pakistan Post Office has issued this set of stamps to commemorate the 16^th anniversary of UNICEF.
• With the compliments of the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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Issued by India

Issued on Dec 11, 1960

Issued for : Since independence, all States in the Indian Union have collaborated closely with UNICEF in the implementation of a wide range of programmes directed towards the improvement of the lot of mothers and children.

It is against this background that the Posts and Telegraphs Department have thought it fit to issue a special commemorative stamp on UNICEF Day.

Type : Stamp, Mint condition

Colour : Light brown (Mineral Red) Raw Sienna

Denomination : 15 naye paise

Size : 3.91 x 2.90 Cms.

Perforation : 13

Watermark : All-over multiple ‘Lion Capital of Asoka‘

Number Printed : 5 Million

Set : 35 stamps per issue sheet

Printing process : Photogravure

About : 

• Established in 1946 by a Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations to assist programmes for the benefit of children and adolescents in countries which were victims of aggression and for child health purposes generally, the United Nations Children’s Fund has, today, become an integral part of the world-wide campaign to ensure a better future to the rising generation. By now the UNICEF assists health, nutrition and welfare programmes in nearly 100 countries. This work is financed through voluntary contributions from Governments and donations from the public.
• Prominent on the lists of UNICEF projects is assistance to various countries for building and expanding their basic Maternal and Child Welfare services. This includes basic and permanent health and welfare services for children, especially nutrition and health centres and the training of national personnel to plan and operate these services.
• Equally important are the UNICEF assistance programmes for the control of communicable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, yaws, trachoma and leprosy. The UNICEF is however not concerned merely with the control of disease as such, but aims at achieving higher standards of well-being among children, through better nutrition. This includes supplementary feeding schemes, milk conservation, development of protein-rich foods and education of families in better nutritional practices.
• UNICEF has also sponsored programmes of emergency aid for relief of children and mothers in times of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and drought.
• The aim of the Fund, in short, is not merely to provide curative measures against diseases, but “to seek a way to the future, when every child lives and grows within a family unit, which is, in turn, part of a healthy and contented community”.
• The paths to this end are many, beset with difficulties, sometimes overwhelming, but by beginning with these programmes which bring help to large numbers through simple measures, much has been achieved by UNICEF since it first started functioning. The people themselves are now demanding and working for better conditions for their children, and Governments all over the world recognize that provision for social welfare is an investment that they cannot afford to ignore. The creation of this consciousness among the people is reflected in the UNICEF policy of participating in a project only when requested to do so by a Government which contributes a matching expenditure on the project.
• In the words of Shrimati Vijay Lakshmi Pandit when she was the President of the United Nations General Assembly, “The Fund is one of the most vivid examples within the framework of the United Nations of international cooperation for peaceful purposes. Its value lies not only in the lives saved but in the entire communities which it strengthens and in the faith in the United Nations which it establishes and renews wherever it operates“.

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