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The United Nations Childrens' Fund, otherwise known as UNICEF is a program of the United Nations. UNICEF was created in 1946 is a humanitarian organization that assisted children and mothers in countries that were devastated by World War II. The program is thought to have been founded by Ludwik Rajchman, a Polish physician who also served as the groups first chairman. By the 1950s, the organization expanded past its initial mission of helping countries affected by World War II and set out to help people of developing countries everywhere. Still headquartered in New York City, the organization is now present in over 200 countries across the world