First Round of Grants From Ted Turner’s New United Nations Foundation

Drug Control

* To encourage press coverage of a special session on drugs to be held in June by the United Nations General Assembly: $150,000 to the United Nations In ternational Drug Control Programme (Vienna).

Environment

* To work with Rescue Mission, a British group, on a survey to gauge what young people think the world’s top environmental priorities should be: $350,000 over 18 months to the United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi, Kenya).

* To work with the World Resources Institute to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in China without harming economic-development goals: $900,000 to the United Nations Development Programme (New York).

* To provide support for a project to develop proposals on ways the United Nations should deal with cross-jurisdictional issues related to the environment and human settlements: $173,000 to the United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi, Kenya).

Health

* For a project to eradicate guinea-worm disease, a severe parasitic infection, from West and Central Africa by 2000: $2,892,000 over three years to the United Nations Children’s Fund (New York).

* To prevent measles and Vitamin A deficiencies among Nigerian children: $1-million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (New York).

* For an effort to provide vitamin and mineral supplements to pregnant women and newborn children in West Timor, Indonesia: $860,000 over two years to the United Nations Children’s Fund (New York).

* To control intestinal parasites in Vietnam: $200,000 over two years to the United Nations Children’s Fund (New York).

Hunger

* To develop a comprehensive survey of food shortages and develop a computerized system that will make it easier to detect and alleviate future food deficits in Central and South America: $1.2-million over two years to the World Food Programme (Rome).

* To feed malnourished people in Sierra Leone: $500,000 to the United Nations Children’s Fund (New York).

Military Issues

* To demobilize child soldiers in Sierra Leone: $1.1-million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (New York).

* To help land-mine survivors in Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Laos, Mozambique, and Somalia find jobs and become active citizens in their home countries: $2-million over three years to the United Nations Development Programme (New York).

* To support the clearing of land mines in Bosnia and to warn people of the potential danger of the explosive devices: $625,000 to the United Nations Development Programme (New York).

Population

* To improve reproductive-health-care services in the Philippines: $2.1-million over 20 months to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (New York).

* To increase the accessibility and quality of reproductive-health-care services in the Comoros: $1.3-million over three years to the United Nations Population Fund (New York).

* To improve the quality of reproductive-health-care services in Lebanon: $1-million over four years to the United Nations Population Fund (New York).

* To teach journalists about population issues by sending reporters on one- to two-week trips to visit health workers, clients, and others in developing countries: $300,000 over two years to the United Nations Population Fund (New York).

* To prevent adolescents in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from becoming pregnant: $150,000 over two years to the United Nations Population Fund (New York).

Women

* To improve the health and economic status of women who live in rural areas of Bolivia, largely by increasing their literacy in the Quechua and Spanish languages: $3-million over four years to the United Nations Population Fund (New York).

* For a multifaceted campaign to reduce violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean: $950,000 over 18 months to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (New York).

* To set up a revolving fund to provide small loans to women in Andhra Pradesh State, India: $950,000 over three years to the United Nations Development Programme (New York).

* To work with Centre d’Exchanges et Communication International in Canada on a project to help women in Burkina Faso become more economically independent by improving the manufacturing of products made with shea nuts: $480,000 to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (New York).