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Ladies and gentlemen good day. Welcome to the United Nations Association Every Woman Every Child conference call. Please note today's conference is being recorded. At this time I would like to turn things over to your host for today Roger Nooks(?). Please go ahead sir. Ok thank you Peter. Hi everyone, my name is Roger Nooks(?). I'd like to welcome all of you onto tonight's call. The title of which is unprecedented global effort to save lives every woman every child the UN's important role in improving women's and children's health. Every woman every child was launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon during last year's UN ___ development goals summit that many of you may have followed. The initiative aims to save the lives of 16M women and children by 2015. This global effort puts into action a global strategy for women's and children's health which was developed at the UN DG summit last year, in 2010 rather and it presents a road map.

On October 27, UNA-USA hosted a Nationwide Conference Call discussing the crisis in the Horn of Africa with representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign.

Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) team member Florian Vichot describes the critical communications services that TSF is offering refugees on the border of Libya and Tunisia. With support from the UN Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, a team of telecommunications experts from TSF deployed to the Ras Ajdir frontier post on February 24, 2011 where they are providing refugees with free phone calls to anywhere in the world to share news with their families, receive a mental break or ask for a personal assistance.

Hello good afternoon from Multan South Punjab. My name is Donan(?) Awerlij(?). I'm a World Food Program I C T officer reporting from a flood affected area in Pakistan. I'm a emergency telecom cluster coordinator working in United Nations World Food Program on the mission in Pakistan. My primary objective mission is basically to support the safety and security of humanitarian staff so that they can start to work and deliver the food and relief. With me I do have a local World Food Program I C T officers which are also managing a emergency partner operation and assistant of of other agencies, with me is also a few members of Fittest(?) the Fast IT and Telecommunications Emergency Support Team from Dubai, one of them is deployed in Sukkur which is about 352.

Peter Yeo, executive director of the Better World Campaign, answers the audience's questions about U.S. funding to the United Nations. Learn more and take action at http://www.BetterWorldCampaign.org. Note: Better World Campaign is a sister organization of the UN Foundation.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) provide an update on what the UN is doing to support the women and girls impacted by the recent earthquake in Haiti.

How the UN Foundation's colleagues at WFP are helping to repair Haiti's communication infrastructure.

My name is Myriam Annette. I am with the Telecoms Sans Frontiere emergency team in Port au Prince, Haiti. Our emergency deployment to Haiti was sponsored in part by the UN Foundation-Vodafone Partnership. I am standing right now in the middle of the UN coordination base - it has been on the ground since the day after the earthquake, assisting survivors and emergency responders. We have three teams covering three survivors’ camps a day. Each team sets up satellite calling and provides a free international three minute call. 90% of the calls go to the US. Most of the other calls are the first contact survivors have had with their relatives. We are serving 100’s of families a day. What is reported that there are 600 camps with no place to live and no accessory sources the calls are often rough. Many ask relatives to somehow get them money so they can buy food and water. We hear stories of huge loss, purses and wallets full of pictures of family killed. Unimaginable choices like the men forced to save either wife or daughter when only one could be pulled out and bought to makeshift medical facilities in time. At other times we hear people let somebody know for the first time that they survived, those are good calls. And more and more UN responders and resources arrive every day. The job is just so big and the resources and organization needed enormous. More than a million homeless, hungry and thirsty and spread out in pockets across the city so we continue to see people who have not yet seen any support at all. TSF are also assisting the UN in this job by setting up at UN Locations coordination centres for UN and NGO responders and trouble shooting IT issues for anyone who needs help. I will be providing updates on this website as frequently as possible but as each day extends in the camp there is not much opportunity. Thanks you. For more on TSF please visit www.tsfi.org