Swedish atmosphere lobbyist Greta Thunberg has given a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish establishment to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday.
“Like the atmosphere emergency, the coronavirus pandemic is a youngster rights emergency,” Thunberg, 17, was cited as saying in the UNICEF explanation.
“It will influence all youngsters, presently and in the long haul, however powerless gatherings will be affected the most,” she included.
“I’m requesting that everybody step up and go along with me on the side of UNICEF’s fundamental work to spare kids’ lives, to ensure wellbeing and proceed with instruction.”
The Danish enemy of neediness non-legislative association, Human Act, will coordinate the $100,000 gift, the announcement included.
UNICEF said the assets would give it a lift as it battles to help youngsters affected by hostile to infection lockdowns and school terminations, especially in the fields of “nourishment deficiencies, stressed social insurance frameworks, savagery and lost training.”
Thunberg said toward the finish of March that she had “likely” gotten the coronavirus, in the wake of encountering a few side effects after an excursion to focal Europe.
