The kind of world we leave behind depends on what we do today!

A bequest to UNICEF is a powerful way to touch the future. It honours your memory, perpetuates your ideals and serves for generations to come.

A legacy or bequest is a gift of cash or assets left in a Will to family, friends, designated organisations and/or charities. A legacy or bequest left to UNICEF is a wonderful way for you to express your concern and desire to help the millions of children still living without proper nutrition, housing, education, health care or work and life skills to earn a living. Your legacy to future generations can be helping these disadvantaged children.

A legacy or bequest can be a specific amount of money, a percentage of your estate or items from an estate. Your legal advisor or Trust company can draft or amend your Will for you.

Alternatively, you may prefer to make a one-off gift with the total sum going immediately to the children.

UNICEF New Zealand welcome inquiries about our legacy programme and the opportunity to discuss any particular area of interest you may have. If you would like a UNICEF representative to come and talk to you about our organisation please feel free to phone John on 0800 243 575 or e-mail john@unicef.org.nz

If you have already made a Will you can make a simple addition to mention UNICEF by completing a Codicil form and sending or taking it to your lawyer. Download the form.

A message from Sir Roger Moore about the importance of legacies.

I have had the rare privilege of seeing first hand UNICEF's work with children around the world.

I have met countless children who are benefiting, whose lives have been saved by UNICEF programmes. Many are living in appalling poverty, without the day-to-day essentials we take for granted. Others are bravely struggling to survive in situations of conflict.

The work we do today is vital and lifesaving. But I have some grave concerns about the future. Though UNICEF staff and volunteers work tirelessly, the hardships that so many children face - drought, famine, war - will not go away in the foreseeable future.

The legacies left by UNICEF supporters enable us to be there for future generations... and continue to save and uplift the lives of our world's most precious citizens in years to come."