OREANDA-NEWS. ING and UNICEF have extended their partnership for another 3 years. Here’s how we’ve reached one million children with improved education.

2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the partnership between UNICEF and ING. Since the start in 2005, ING employees and customers worldwide have raised funds for UNICEF. As a result, over one million children have received better quality education and are growing up in safer and healthier living conditions in Ethiopia, Brazil, Madagascar, Nepal, South Africa and Zambia.

One of them is Mohamed. He has been able to attend school thanks to the ING-UNICEF partnership. His story is a perfect illustration of how UNICEF and ING have reached children by providing high-quality primary education since the partnership was launched in 2005.

When I was young, herding goats was all I knew.

Mohamed grew up in the Afar region of Ethiopia – a hot and dry area with no infrastructure. At the age of 11, he had no idea schools even existed. “When I was young, herding goats was all I knew.” Thanks to the financial aid from ING, UNICEF was able to roll out a flexible school system, which allowed kids like Mohamed to fulfil their household responsibilities, such as herding goats, while still being able to go to school.

Mohamed: “I owe my future to ING. I am very thankful for that. I still face many <br />challenges ahead, so I will work hard!”

Mohamed: “I owe my future to ING. I am very thankful for that. I still face many
challenges ahead, so I will work hard!”

In this way, ING and UNICEF have reached more than one million ‘Mohameds’ in the past 10 years.