UNICEF exec chief visits India, to address sanitation convention today

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore will be on visit to India starting Sunday till October 6, during which she will hold discussions on a wide range of issues and take part in the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, the UN bodysaid. Forewillalsoseefirsthand UNICEF supported programmes related to sanitation, health and other children’s issues during the visit.

“During her first official visit to the country as the UNICEF executive director, Fore will be meeting with senior government officials, frontline workers, families, children and young people.

“Her itinerary also includes meetings with business leaders to seek shared value partnerships with the heads of top corporate houses in the country on the business benefits of investing in children,” the body said.

It said there was no longer debate about the key role of business in building a safer, more sustainable world for children.

“There is strong financial evidence that investments in children reap benefits not just for the families and communities benefitting, but also for the governments and corporate partners advancing the cause of children and young people. Doing good is doing good business,” Fore said in a UNICEF statement.

On October 1, she will deliver keynote remarks at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention (MGISC), a four-day event in New Delhi that will bring together sanitation ministers and sector specialists from around the world.

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