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UNICEF Time
Aired October 31, 2003 - 11:49 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Look at you guys. Of course, we don't have to tell you that tonight is Halloween. Trick-or-treat of course is a long-standing tradition. Another long-standing tradition is collecting for UNICEF, United Nations International Children's Fund. For an update on this year's fund-raising activity, we have Kimberly Penharlow. She is here. She is director of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. And she has brought a group of kids from Jackson Elementary School here in Atlanta.
Good morning to all of you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALES AND FEMALES: Good morning.
KAGAN: Beautiful sound to our ears.
now you guys have been working to raise the money. You are not just waiting to go out and trick-or-treat. You have been doing something a little bit earlier, and we have to show that you brought this pig. Now this is not one of the students from Jackson Elementary.
Halley (ph). You're Halley, right?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
KAGAN: Tell me what you did with this pig.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well we put in money and we collected pennies, nickels, and dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars, and we put it all in there to collect. And if we filled the whole pig, which we did, and another half of a pig, Dr. Reich (ph), our principal would kiss the pig.
KAGAN: We are not talking this pig. You guys here are talking a real pig. And I think we have video of that.
So the principal kissed the pig. Like you were telling me, was this pretty funny when the principal had to do that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was very, very, funny, the pig was squeak, squeak, squeak! I think that the pig was in more pain than our principal.
KAGAN: Hopefully the principal is not watching. Naja, on a serious note -- go ahead, you dropped your box there -- we all love candy, but you kids have been talking about raising money to king of make Halloween about something a little bit more than that. I'm just going to stand up.
NAJA MIX, 4TH GRADER: Yes, we really are. We love candy, we sure do. But we're trying to raise money so that other children could get clean water, and good food and have candy.
KAGAN: And so you can remember kids all around the world and not just the kids here in Atlanta.
Kimberly, it's got to kind of warm your heart to see the kids that they get it, don't they?
KIMBERLY PENHARLOW, DIR., TRICK-OR-TREAT FOR UNICEF: They do. They are inspirational. Kids more than 53 years ago, like the ones we're seeing here from Jackson Elementary, started a campaign and in the past 53 years, kids have been inspiring people like you and me, teaches and parents, and that collectively, we've raised $119 million.
And UNICEF can do amazing things, like Naja was talking about, clean water and sanitation, education, emergency response and medicine for kids all across the world, in 158 countries. So, yes, they are inspirational.
KAGAN: Good. Well, you know, here at CNN, I have some change I'm going to donate to you guys, but we also have candy. So we are going to do both. So let's get the UNICEF boxes out and get the candy out, and we will wish you guys a safe and happy Halloween.
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Aired October 31, 2003 - 11:49 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Look at you guys. Of course, we don't have to tell you that tonight is Halloween. Trick-or-treat of course is a long-standing tradition. Another long-standing tradition is collecting for UNICEF, United Nations International Children's Fund. For an update on this year's fund-raising activity, we have Kimberly Penharlow. She is here. She is director of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. And she has brought a group of kids from Jackson Elementary School here in Atlanta.
Good morning to all of you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALES AND FEMALES: Good morning.
KAGAN: Beautiful sound to our ears.
now you guys have been working to raise the money. You are not just waiting to go out and trick-or-treat. You have been doing something a little bit earlier, and we have to show that you brought this pig. Now this is not one of the students from Jackson Elementary.
Halley (ph). You're Halley, right?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
KAGAN: Tell me what you did with this pig.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well we put in money and we collected pennies, nickels, and dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars, and we put it all in there to collect. And if we filled the whole pig, which we did, and another half of a pig, Dr. Reich (ph), our principal would kiss the pig.
KAGAN: We are not talking this pig. You guys here are talking a real pig. And I think we have video of that.
So the principal kissed the pig. Like you were telling me, was this pretty funny when the principal had to do that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was very, very, funny, the pig was squeak, squeak, squeak! I think that the pig was in more pain than our principal.
KAGAN: Hopefully the principal is not watching. Naja, on a serious note -- go ahead, you dropped your box there -- we all love candy, but you kids have been talking about raising money to king of make Halloween about something a little bit more than that. I'm just going to stand up.
NAJA MIX, 4TH GRADER: Yes, we really are. We love candy, we sure do. But we're trying to raise money so that other children could get clean water, and good food and have candy.
KAGAN: And so you can remember kids all around the world and not just the kids here in Atlanta.
Kimberly, it's got to kind of warm your heart to see the kids that they get it, don't they?
KIMBERLY PENHARLOW, DIR., TRICK-OR-TREAT FOR UNICEF: They do. They are inspirational. Kids more than 53 years ago, like the ones we're seeing here from Jackson Elementary, started a campaign and in the past 53 years, kids have been inspiring people like you and me, teaches and parents, and that collectively, we've raised $119 million.
And UNICEF can do amazing things, like Naja was talking about, clean water and sanitation, education, emergency response and medicine for kids all across the world, in 158 countries. So, yes, they are inspirational.
KAGAN: Good. Well, you know, here at CNN, I have some change I'm going to donate to you guys, but we also have candy. So we are going to do both. So let's get the UNICEF boxes out and get the candy out, and we will wish you guys a safe and happy Halloween.
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