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/ Ultima / 2019/01 / UNICEF-France-start-accept-From-donations-to-help-fund-blockchain projects /
UNICEF France has recently started accepting donations from MakerDAO's stablecoin dollar pledge, to fund "sizes" and "research for open source technology and infrastructure projects" to help the "most vulnerable people" of the world".
According to an official website created to accept Dai donations, through an arm called UNICEF Ventures, the organization is trying to invest in emerging blockchain projects that are working on solutions for some of the "greatest challenges of humanity".
In fact, UNICEF Ventures has already set up vents in Mexico and Kazakhstan that have focused on giving young people the opportunity to learn more about blockchain technology and to help develop solutions for the specific challenges faced by their regions.
In Mexico, events focused on identities, payments and tokens, while in Kazakhstan they focused on "developing apps for the development situation," Christina Lomazzo told ETHNews.
For the publication, Lomazzo believes that work is still needed to bring teams together and encourage collaboration. If these teams and their projects should mature to become start-ups in the initial phase, the Venture Fund of UNICEF will consider investing in them.
Lomazzo had said:
UNICEF France was able to accept Dai first because it is an ERC20 token, but we are promoting the fact that these donations will help finance the blockchain development community that UNICEF Ventures is building.
In particular, UNICEF France began accepting cryptocurrency donations in September last year. He started by accepting the major currencies, including BTC, ETH, XRP, XMR and EOS. Sébastien Lyon, executive director of the organization, said that cryptocurrency and blockchain technology "offer a new opportunity to attract the generosity of the public and continue to develop our activities with children in the countries of intervention".
It was not the first time that the charitable organization launched an encrypted initiative. In February, he began raising funds to help children in Syria, a country involved in a civil war since 2011.
