Postcode Lotteries in Netherlands and Sweden give nearly 4 million euro

Their vital assistance to UNHCR this year includes funding to expand education in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp.

23 Feb 2012

Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1.35 million euros to UNHCR

The Dutch Postcode Lottery donates 1.35 million euros to the UN refugee agency. The funds will be used in UNHCR projects around the world.

10 Feb 2011

Dutch lottery donates 1.4 million euros for UNHCR projects this year

The Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1.4 million euros to the UN refugee agency for use in projects around the world this year.

5 Feb 2010

Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1 million euros to UNHCR

The Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1 million euros to support the global work of the UN refugee agency.

9 Feb 2009

Q&A: Sudanese returnees benefit from Dutch lottery funds

The Dutch National Postcode Lottery is one of UNHCR's most generous private sector donors. The Lottery's communications adviser, Birgit Deuss, visited South Sudan to see how the organization's money was helping returnees.

29 Feb 2008

Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1.63 million euros to UNHCR

The Dutch National Postcode Lottery has donated more than 1.6 million euros to the UN refugee agency for programmes in the Great Lakes region and to help solar lighting for refugee camps in Chad.

1 Feb 2008

Dutch lottery funds for projects in Sudan, Bangladesh and Ethiopia

Holland's National Postcode Lottery has awarded 4.4 million euros to the "Safe in Southern Sudan" project run by UNHCR and three of its partners. The charity lottery also donated 1.3 million euros in unearmarked funds to the UN refugee agency, which will use the money in Bangladesh and Ethiopia.

1 Feb 2007

Dutch lottery helps refugees in Nepal combat global warming

Global warming is a worldwide concern, whether for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal or Dutch consumers in their homes. A unique project, launched in the Netherlands on Friday, is bringing these two groups and many others together to help meet the challenge.

3 Feb 2006

Dutch lottery donates 1 million euros to UNHCR

The National Postcode Lottery, the main charity lottery in the Netherlands, is supporting the UN refugee agency's work for the third year in a row. One of NPL's beneficiaries, Stichting Vluchteling, has also contributed generously to UNHCR's tsunami relief efforts.

28 Jan 2005