Editing Audrey Hepburn (section)

==Humanitarian work==
In the 1950s, Hepburn narrated two radio programmes for [[UNICEF]], re-telling children's stories of war.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/classics/search/series.jsp?mediatype=&q=audrey+hepburn&advanced=&series=UN+Radio+Classics&sort=&category=&app=7 |title=Classics |work=United Nations Radio Classics |publisher=United Nations Audiovisual Library |language=en |access-date=27 April 2017 |archive-date=6 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606220750/https://www.unmultimedia.org/classics/search/series.jsp?mediatype=&q=audrey+hepburn&advanced=&series=UN+Radio+Classics&sort=&category=&app=7 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1989, Hepburn was appointed a [[List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors|Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF]]. On her appointment, she stated that she was grateful for receiving international aid after enduring the German occupation as a child, and wanted to show her gratitude to the organisation.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.unicef.org/people/people_audrey_hepburn.html |title=Audrey Hepburn |publisher=[[UNICEF]] |access-date=27 April 2017 |language=en-US |archive-date=4 June 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160604105952/http://www.unicef.org/people/people_audrey_hepburn.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1988–1992===
[[File:Audrey Hepburn in Nederland ter gelegenheid van de Danny Kaye Award, samen met, Bestanddeelnr 934-5055 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Hepburn receiving [[UNICEF]]'s International [[Danny Kaye]] Award for Children in 1989.|alt=Hepburn with a child during a UNICEF mission.]]

Hepburn's first field mission for UNICEF was to Ethiopia in 1988. She visited an orphanage in [[Mek'ele]] that housed 500 starving children and had UNICEF send food.<ref name="UNICEF Missions" /> Of the trip, she said,
{{Blockquote|I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can't stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children, [and] not because there isn't tons of food sitting in the northern port of [[Shewa|Shoa]]. It can't be distributed. Last spring, Red Cross and UNICEF workers were ordered out of the northern provinces because of two simultaneous civil wars... I went into rebel country and saw mothers and their children who had walked for ten days, even three weeks, looking for food, settling onto the desert floor into makeshift camps where they may die. Horrible. That image is too much for me. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.<ref>Hepburn in {{cite book |url=http://www.audrey1.org/biography/21/audrey-hepburn-unicef-overview |title=Betrayal: A Report on Violence Towards Children in Today's World |editor-first=Caroline |editor-last=Moorehead |chapter=Introduction |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |year=1990 |isbn=978-0385410977 |via=Audrey1.org (fan site) |archive-date=August 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831214513/http://www.audrey1.org/biography/21/audrey-hepburn-unicef-overview |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

In August 1988, Hepburn went to Turkey on an immunisation campaign. She called Turkey "the loveliest example" of UNICEF's capabilities. Of the trip, she said, "The army gave us their trucks, the fishmongers gave their wagons for the vaccines, and once the date was set, it took ten days to vaccinate the whole country. Not bad."<ref name="UNICEF Missions">{{cite web |url=http://www.audrey1.org/biography/22/audrey-hepburns-unicef-field-missions |title=Audrey Hepburn's UNICEF Field Missions |access-date=22 December 2013 |archive-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221042945/http://www.audrey1.org/biography/22/audrey-hepburns-unicef-field-missions |url-status=live }}</ref> In October, Hepburn went to South America. Of her experiences in Venezuela and Ecuador, Hepburn told the United States Congress, "I saw tiny mountain communities, slums, and shantytowns receive water systems for the first time by some miracle – and the miracle is UNICEF. I watched boys build their own schoolhouse with bricks and cement provided by UNICEF."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paris |first=Barry |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34675183 |title=Audrey Hepburn |date=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14056-5 |location=New York |oclc=34675183 |access-date=29 March 2021 |archive-date=27 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127204058/https://www.worldcat.org/title/audrey-hepburn/oclc/34675183 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Hepburn toured Central America in February 1989, and met with leaders in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In April, she visited Sudan with Wolders as part of a mission called "Operation Lifeline". Because of civil war, food from [[aid agency|aid agencies]] had been cut off. The mission was to ferry food to [[Geography of Sudan|southern Sudan]]. Hepburn said, "I saw but one glaring truth: These are not [[natural disaster]]s but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution – peace."<ref name="UNICEF Missions" /> In October 1989, Hepburn and Wolders went to Bangladesh. [[John Isaac (Photographer)|John Isaac]], a UN photographer, said, "Often the kids would have flies all over them, but she would just go hug them. I had never seen that. Other people had a certain amount of hesitation, but she would just grab them. Children would just come up to hold her hand, touch her – she was like the [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin|Pied Piper]]."{{Sfn|Paris|2001}}

In October 1990, Hepburn went to Vietnam, in an effort to collaborate with the government for national UNICEF-supported immunisation and [[Drinking water|clean water]] programmes. In September 1992, four months before she died, Hepburn went to Somalia. Calling it "apocalyptic", she said, "I walked into a nightmare. I have seen famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, but I have seen nothing like this – so much worse than I could possibly have imagined. I wasn't prepared for this."<ref name="UNICEF Missions" /> Though scarred by what she had seen, Hepburn still had hope stating: {{Blockquote|As we move into the twenty-first century, there is much to reflect upon. We look around us and see that the promises of yesterday have to come to pass. People still live in abject poverty, people are still hungry, people still struggle to survive. And among these people we see the children, always the children: their enlarged bellies, their sad eyes, their wise faces that show the suffering, all the suffering they have endured in their short years.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Newsweek]] |title=The Din of Silence |date=12 October 1992}}</ref>}}

===Recognition===
United States president [[George H. W. Bush]] presented Hepburn with the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in recognition of her work with [[UNICEF]], and the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] posthumously awarded her the [[Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]] for her contribution to humanity.<ref name="bp">{{cite web |url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/05/was-audrey-hepburn-the-queen-of-polyglotism/ |title=Was Audrey Hepburn, the Queen of Polyglotism? |publisher=news.biharprabha.com |access-date=3 May 2014 |archive-date=16 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116135516/https://news.biharprabha.com/2014/05/was-audrey-hepburn-the-queen-of-polyglotism/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Paris|1996|p=91}} In 2002, at the [[World Summit for Children#Special session|United Nations Special Session on Children]], UNICEF honoured Hepburn's legacy of humanitarian work by unveiling a statue, "The Spirit of Audrey", at UNICEF's New York headquarters. Her service for children is also recognised through the [[U.S. Fund for UNICEF|United States Fund for UNICEF]]'s Audrey Hepburn Society.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/activities/hepburn.htm |title=Audrey Hepburn's work for the world's children honoured |publisher=unicef.org |access-date=8 May 2013 |archive-date=23 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523160740/https://www.unicef.org/specialsession/activities/hepburn.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/11/dl.00.html |title=U.N. Hosts Special Session on Children's Rights |date=7 February 2001 |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=8 May 2013 |archive-date=29 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629003058/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/11/dl.00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>