The first charity Christmas card was produced by UNICEF in 1949. The picture chosen was painted by a seven-year-old girl, Jitka Samkova of Rudolfo, a small town in the former Czechoslovakia. The town received UNICEF assistance after World War II, inspiring Jitka to paint children dancing around a maypole, representing "joy going round and round."
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