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My name is Lucy Meyer, and I'm 17 years old, and I love to swim and surf and boogie board

and play tennis and hang out with my friends.

And I'm an Official U.S. Fund for UNICEF Spokesperson for Children with Disabilities.

UNICEF put out the state of the world's children report for children with disabilities and

they asked our daughter Lucy to speak.

She did amazing, and we learned so much about the work that UNICEF is doing with children

with disabilities and it's exactly the same philosophy that we do for Lucy as far as just

acceptance and inclusion.

Swimming is my favorite sport, because it's really fun and it feels good.

It makes me happy to be in the water.

I love competing.

I care about winning, because when I win I feel really happy and excited and I love it.

I went to Jamaica with UNICEF and got to see all the kids and their schools and what they

did in school.

Got to play with them and have a great time with them.

One of the schools that we went to when we were in Jamaica was an inclusive school.

A lot of children without disabilities, and they had one particular child that had a disability

who was about Lucy's age.

And they included the child with disabilities, they included them all together, and it was

just so special to see that's the way the world should be.

UNICEF, I think has a unique way to see that all children regardless of where they're born,

have an opportunity to reach their potential with or without disability.

Kids with disabilities should be able to go to school with kids without disabilities together,

and play together, and learn together.

I like working with UNICEF because UNICEF helps children all over the world.

I love children.

Children are important because they are amazing people.

My dream is that all children get to have education and healthcare, and get to have

nutrition and have fun, and be happy and do everything that I get to do.

I think this dream can come true if we all work together and continue make a difference

in the world.

For more infomation >> Why Lucy Meyer, Spokesperson for UNICEF USA's Partnership with the Special Olympics, Gives to UNICEF - Duration: 2:55.

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ALERT , President Trump Latest News Today 11/15/17 , White House news , HILLARY CLINTON UNDER FIRE - Duration: 17:05.

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UNICEF USA | Every Child Deserves a Childhood - Duration: 1:01.

Look closely.

Really closely.

Deep into the eyes of a child.

See their hope, and ours, too.

Whoever she is, wherever he lives, every child deserves a childhood.

That's why UNICEF is there, working day in, day out, in 190 countries and territories.

Reaching the hardest to reach, the furthest from help.

It's why we stay to the end, and never give up.

Will you stand with us?

Stand with us.

Stand with us.

For more infomation >> UNICEF USA | Every Child Deserves a Childhood - Duration: 1:01.

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Why Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah Gives to UNICEF - Duration: 3:00.

Being a child in war, it's difficult.

I had no desire to really survive because I'd lost everything.

My name is Ishmael Beah.

I am an author and I'm also a human rights activist.

By age 13, I'd been recruited into the army and I was fighting as a soldier.

When the war finally came to my part of the country, I was 12 years old and I started

running from it.

I lost everything.

My immediate family was killed in the war, so my mother, father, and two brothers.

You learned to function in madness very quickly.

You have to adapt to your situation in order to survive.

And often, you are exposed to extreme levels of violence that you've never even heard of.

There was a lot of hardship.

We had lots of arms and ammunition, but no food, no medicine, and lots of drugs.

But also, when you've lost family and everything, you quickly learn to belong to this group.

But to belong to this new group required violence.

Violence became the way to show loyalty.

There were several things that gave me hope.

One of them was when I was a boy, my father used to say to me, "If you are alive, there's

a possibility that something good will happen to you.

That if none of those possibilities exist in your life anymore, you will die."

While we are gone on one of these missions, there were a few people who showed up.

I vividly remember them wearing this thing that says "UNICEF" and the logo of this person

or this baby.

I remember thinking to myself the first time that maybe they're like a new mercenary group

that we're gonna collaborate with.

I had never heard of UNICEF.

So, they had some talk with the commander and then at some point they lined everybody

up and then they disarmed us and they took my weapon.

I was not happy.

I was actually very upset because I knew what that meant, not to have a weapon, in the context

that I was in.

Then they put us in this vehicle and said, "You're gonna recover from the war and become

a child again."

They brought us to a place called a Proof School, which became the center that I spent

eight months there recovering from the war.

It's because of that intervention that took me out of that situation and made other things

possible.

After I came out of this experience of being a child in war and I thought to myself,

"What can I do to give back?

What can I do to have people understand the possibilities on the other end, how you can

recover from all of that when you're given the right care and support?"

So, I decided to be an example for both people coming out of the struggle but also people

who are doing that work to assist people coming out of that struggle.

It's not often you come out of a situation and you meet somebody who has come out of

a similar situation like you.

And it's doing well and the stamina.

It gives you hope that you, too, can do something with yourself.

For more infomation >> Why Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah Gives to UNICEF - Duration: 3:00.

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As Biden Sat in Tent on Vets Day, Pence Grabbed Supplies and Cleaned Memorial - TODAY NEWS - Duration: 2:22.

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, joined volunteer groups on Veterans Day and

helped wash the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

The Pences joined Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and a number of volunteers on Saturday

cleaning the face of the 247-foot wall, which is engraved with the names of fallen soldiers,

USA Today reported.

Pence reportedly showed up dressed in blue jeans, old cowboy boots and yellow gloves

and spent about 40 minutes scrubbing the memorial.

This is quite a contrast to what former Vice President Joe Biden did in Delaware last year

on Veterans Day, which was sit in a tent, deliver a speech, shake a few hands and be

done.

There is nothing wrong with what Biden did, it's just what politicians traditionally

do.

But the fact that Pence and his wife took time on a cold day to get dirty and clean

the memorial shed some light on their character — and proves just how different the Trump

administration is from the one that preceded it.'

Cleaning the wall is a humbling way to honor our veterans.

Being willing to take some time and help scrub the dirt off of the memorial is also an opportunity

to show gratitude to all service members who make sacrifices.

It's not an easy task, especially in freezing temperatures — but it makes an impression.

An impression that should linger long after the words of a speech are forgotten.

Pence posted about the event on Twitter and said it was a moving start to the day.

He's not wrong about that.

There isn't much more sobering than cleaning the memorial and seeing the names of more

than 58,000 Americans who died for our country.

Pence, whose father fought in the Korean War, later delivered a tribute to veterans at Arlington

National Cemetery.

The National Parks Service cleans the Vietnam War Memorial every week.

Every so often, though, the park service gets a helping hand from volunteers to keep the

wall looking pristine.

In April, Zinke pitched in with a group of bikers to help wash the memorial.

Cleaning the memorial was an opportunity that the Pences, and many others before them, did

not want to pass up.