David Beckham made an appearance on
Graham Norton's show last night and the main drift was to talk about
his support of the UNICEF Fund, marking in 2015, his 10th
year as a Goodwill Ambassador.
His special focus is to provide for
children, “sport for development”. Since 2005 he has been to
Sierra Leone raising the awareness of high death rates of under 5s,
in the country. He has been to South Africa to work with families
suffering from HIV and AIDS and in 2011 to a children's centre in
Manila, Philippines and East Africa for the Children's Food Crisis
appeal.
In 2012 he met David Cameron to call
for more action over malnutrition around the world and in 2014 he
made a second visit to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan,
emphasising their need for support, counselling and providing safe
places to play and learn. In this scheme, £5.4 million was raised as
part of Soccer Aid 5.
David collaborated with Robbie Williams
in 2014 to launch the Children in Danger campaign which aims to
protect children from violence, disease, hunger and war especially in
the regions stricken by Ebola.
He has even got his eldest son working
in a local cafe to raise money-I think it was for his own “pocket
money” however, to make the lad appreciate that he has to buy his
own trainers and not sponge off his parents!
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