H&M Conscious Foundation announces new funding for Harlem school

H&M Conscious Foundation announces new funding for Harlem school

 

And

 

UNICEF to release new data and analysis on child rights globally

 

 

WHAT:

The H&M Conscious Foundation will announce $1.3 million in new funding for a school in Harlem. The funding will support a health and education program designed to remove barriers to learning for underprivileged children

 

And

 

25 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, UNICEF will release a series of essays and statistical analysis that ask whether the world is a better place for children across the globe.

 

The press briefing will take place after Children in the Age of Sustainable Development -- a half-day event hosted at Columbia University bringing to together civil society, corporate and government leaders to discuss a post-2015 vision of child and human development.

 

WHO: 

Yoka Brandt, Deputy Executive Director UNICEF

Irwin Redlener,  Co-Founder and President, Children’s Health Fund and Director, 

Program on Child Wellbeing and Resilience at the Earth Institute, Columbia University

Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University   

Helena Thybell, H&M Conscious Foundation Global Manager

Alek Wek, International model and H&M Conscious Foundation Ambassador

 

WHEN: 

11:45 am EDT; Friday September 26, 2014

 

WHERE: 

The Trustees Room,

Columbia University, Low Memorial Library

535 W. 116th Street, New York, NY