Western Union gives $100,000 to UN emergency fund

Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Marian Houk

It wasn’t always possible for corporations to contribute to the United Nations…now, it has been announced that The United Nations emergency fund collected $420 million Thursday in voluntary pledges for 2008 relief programs … Western Union pledged $100,000, becoming the first corporate donor to contribute to the emergency fund … The fund received no pledges from the United States or Russia … The Bush administration wants the U.S. Agency for International Development to evaluate the fund before it decides whether to make a pledge for 2008, said Benjamin Chang, deputy spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations” … Apparently, the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund was established in March 2006, and has since processed nearly $600 million in assistance to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters — and two-thirds of this amount has reportedly gone to Africa . This news was reported here.

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