We love David Beckham, one look at this video of the British soccer star in Sierra Leone and you'll melt, too! He was there a few days ago to draw attention to the issue of child survival. He's been a Goodwill Ambassador for years with the program. He even took some time to play a bit of 'football' with the locals. This was the 32-year-old athlete's first time to the country.
"We can't turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands of young children who die every day in the developing world," he said in a statement released Tuesday. "One in four children dies before reaching their fifth birthday – it's shocking and tragic especially when the solutions are simple – things like vaccinations against measles or using a mosquito net to reduce the chance of getting malaria."
For more on UNICEF's work, visit their Web site at http://www.unicef.org.uk/childsurvival.
