Kim Bum and Sung Yuri donate personal items to UNICEF for ‘International Day of the African Child’

Actors Kim Bum and Sung Yuri have donated their personal items to aid children in Africa.

Kim Bum posted on his me2day on the 15th, “Hello, this is Kim Bum, the special ambassador for UNICEF. The King Kong Entertainment family and UNICEF have come together to donate our personal items to help children in Africa! Tomorrow is the International Day of the African Child.”

Sung Yuri also posted, “I’ve donated my personal items along with the King Kong family… Let’s all do good deeds together.”

Netizens commented, “I thought just his face was good looking, but Kim Bum’s heart is amazing too,” “I want Sung Yuri’s sneakers,” and “Maybe it’s because you’re helping others, but you look prettier.”

The International Day of the African Child is celebrated every year on June 16. King Kong Entertainment and UNICEF will be holding an auction to help the cause until June 30th.

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Big Bang to donate to UNICEF through the ‘Alive Tour 2012′

Big Bang‘s world tour has been a hot issue among their fans across the globe. Now, Big Bang has added another reason to encourage VIP‘s to attend their concert.

It has been revealed that part of the profits from Big Bang’s ‘Alive Tour 2012‘, which began in March and will end this December, will be donated to the Korean Committee for UNICEF.

On June 14th, YG Entertainment‘s Yang Min Suk and the Korean Committee for UNICEF’s Ryu Jong Soo met at the UNICEF Korea company building to complete an agreement stating that a portion of the profits from the ‘Alive Tour 2012′ will be donated to UNICEF.

The charity funds will come through the profits from the ticket sales, and will be donated to UNICEF’s children’s relief system for vaccinations. The funds will provide measles vaccinations for about 600,000 children, meaning one ticket buyer will be able to save one African child.

Additionally, UNICEF and YG Entertainment will be collaborating to sell special products and items for further charitable funding to the cause.

Big Bang’s leader G-Dragon stated,

“As we will be receiving much love from various countries through our world tour, we want to return that love back to the world. That’s why we decided to support UNICEF. The funds that are raised will go towards children’s vaccinations. We hope that many children will be able to grow and live healthy lives free of any diseases.“

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INFINITE joins hands with UNICEF to help children around the world

7-member idol group INFINITE joined hands with UNICEF for a special campaign.

The members of INFINITE who have further broadened their fan base across the world being labeled as ‘Musicians representing K-POP‘ have now joined hands with UNICEF to better promote their ‘2012 Birthday Donation Campaign‘.

The ’2012 UNICEF Birthday Donation Campaign’ launched just last year and is a campaign where individuals donate to the organization on their respective birthdays, gifting presents not to themselves but to children in third world countries.

By incorporating new projects they they themselves helped create, INFINITE plans to further enlarge the meaningful campaign this year.

UNICEF is a UN institution established to help all children of the world, regardless of sex, religion, and race. Within Korea, famous celebrities such as Ahn Sung Ki, Lee Byung Hun, and Won Bin are all working as goodwill ambassadors for UNICEF.

“It’s an honor to join such a meaningful campaign,” INFINITE remarked. “We have high hopes and expectations for this campaign, as it is one made possible by the efforts of many different people.”

INFINITE fan members are also expressing their excitement, as this campaign is something they too can participate in. “I’m happy to be doing some goodwill work“, they said, along with “I’ll support you guys together!“, and “It’s even more meaningful to be helping with INFINITE.”

The campaign will officially kick off the second week of July, and more detailed information about the project will be unveiled through the official ’2012 UNICEF birthday donation campaign’ website on the third week of June.

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