Question

What is the full form of UNICEF?
A. United Nations Chit Fund
B. United Nations Children's Foundation
C. United Nations Children’s Fund
D. Nations Children’s Chit Foundation

Answer 1

Hint: UNICEF is an international agency, working under the aegis of the United Nations. The main objective of the agency is to provide humanitarian aid to children worldwide.

Complete Answer: UNICEF is a United Nations agency providing aid or help to the children, subject to the traditional and non-traditional sources of threat. It mainly performs many humanitarian activities like promoting education and better health facilities for the children worldwide. It aims to protect the children from the disastrous impact of calamities upon them. With such characterisation, let’s examine all the options one by one:
a. United Nations Chit Fund is not any established agency but chit fund is a savings and credit association system. It is most commonly practised in India. It is mainly done for saving purposes and it does not aim at providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children.
b. United Nations Children’s Foundation is again not an established agency but the United Nations Foundation aims at charity or conducting charitable activities. It does not aim at providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children.
c. United Nations Children’s Fund is another name for UNICEF and it is an agency working for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children. It works under the United Nations and aims to protect the children from poverty, ill-health and other threats to their well-being. It also incorporates many activities for their development which is solely funded by them.
d. Nation’s Children Chit Foundation is not any established agency. Chit Foundation is a credit and saving association which works upon the principles of investment. It is mainly done for saving purposes and it does not aim at providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children.
The correct answer is ‘c’. The other name of UNICEF is United Nations Children’s Fund.

Note: The complete full form of UNICEF is United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund but it’s other name is United Nations Children’s Fund. It should not create confusion while writing the answer.