i am big fan of CX and flying them in F frequently between FRA and HKG. lately, i have experienced more than once that the crew killed my sleep by accouncing UNICEF envelopes in multiple languages about one hour before landing. usually, the entire F cabin sleeps until the captain says "30 minutes to landing". i agree UNICEF is important and i can live with the mandatory UNICEF movie on the ground as well as the UNICEF commercial before every movie, but I think this is going to far. It is so easy to move this non-safety-relevant announcement to after the captainīs landing information. Or move it to the beginning of the flight.
after landing in FRA or HKG, i have to work easily 12 hours in a row, and 30 minutes is about 10% of my sleeping time on a flight, and actually the flat bed and the silent cabin is what i mostly pay for.
i brought this to the attention of the purser when i experienced this last time, but she argued like UNICEF was the most important thing in her life and she does not care about some managerīs sleep and nobody else complained before. she was a very good discusser putting me in a position like i would almost actively kills children because i wanted to sleep.

any opinions on this? what will be the next socially very important announcement that could be done in the middle of the night or, better, just every hour?
or, every passenger can announce his favorite charity over the PA?
please dont get me wrong, i think it is very good that CX supports charity, but it is a thin line between supporting charity with own money and annoying people to donate their money. this must be done in a way that is not intimidating, and sure waking up people is not the way to do it.
i fear this now becomes standard procedure on CX.