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Use Your Leftover Foreign Coins Complete
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Change for Good® (CFG) is a partnership between international air carriers and UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund. CFG is designed to redeem normally unused foreign currency by converting passengers' foreign change into lifesaving materials and services for the world's neediest children. This partnership has raised over US$27 million over the last ten years. Most of us return from Europe with an assortment of coins rattling around our pockets and luggage: rappen, francs, lire. Yes, we made sure to stop at the exchange office at the airport on the way home and turn in our banknotes for US dollars. But how many coins do we have left? And what will we do with them? If you're like most of us you'll clean out your pockets and bags when you get home and dump the change into a drawer. The odds are good the coins will still be there when your traveling days are ended. Benefiting no one. More than a dozen airlines will ask their passengers returning to the US if they'd like to turn over their coins to benefit CFG. Please, do this if you're invited to participate. You can be assured that funds collected will be transferred to UNICEF.
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Travelex America Attn: Jessica Lynch Change for Good® for UNICEF JFK Airport Terminal 4 IAT Jamaica, NY 11430
We've done that. In many cases, though, you'll be visiting different countries, or at least not all the countries you visited on 'this' trip. And most of the European currency you collect this year won't be usable next year! Even if you plan on going back later, you may want your small change, which has little value to you, to do some good while you're saving up your money for your next visit. For example, just $2 in change will buy enough medicine to protect 30 toddlers from vitamin-A-deficiency blindness for one year. For
travelers to Europe this year: Yes, you'll be able to turn them in later for euros when you return to Europe ... if your visit will be long enough to accommodate the bureaucratic process. We've always found exchanging outdated currency in Europe, which has happened a lot, takes so long that most visitors are stuck with the old money. Don't let your money go to waste ... use it to help kids now. Complete
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