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- United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an affiliated agency of the United Nations. It was established in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. UNICEF is concern...
- Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Audrey, 1929–93, film actress, b. Brussels as Audrey Kathleen Ruston. The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she and her mother lived in the Netherlands during the Na...
- child welfare
Child welfare, services provided for the care of disadvantaged children. Foundling institutions for orphans and abandoned children were the earliest attempts at child care, usually under relig...
- illiteracy
Illiteracy, inability to meet a certain minimum criterion of reading and writing skill. The exact nature of the criterion varies, so that illiteracy must be defined in each case before the ter...
- social welfare
Social welfare or public charity, organized provision of educational, cultural, medical, and financial assistance to the needy. Modern social welfare measures may include any of the following:...
