The next time you go into a grocery store to buy milk, you could call it a carton of UNICEF. Sounds a bit strange? Actually, children in Europe after World War II would sometimes refer to milk as a "cup of UNICEF."
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, came about because children in the war-torn countries were in desperate need of food. The war caused such great destruction, many basic items like milk were in short supply.
This crisis received top-level attention from the U.S. government. In 1946 President Harry Truman dispatched a team led by Herbert Hoover to help the countries in ruin. Their trip, and seeing the needs of hungry children, helped to inspire the creation of UNICEF.
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