David Beckham visits Djibouti

[RoobleAlWaliid]

The father-of-four admitted he was 'shocked' to see the children's lives turned upside down by conflict in neighbouring countries, including Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

Unicef Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham has spent time at a refugee camp in Djibouti, meeting children and families, including those displaced by conflict and violence in neighbouring countries.

David visited the Ali Addeh camp, which is home to over 10,000 refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, and saw how Unicef is providing life-saving vaccines to protect children from preventable diseases.

“This is the first time I have visited a refugee camp,” David said. “It’s shocking to see how children’s lives can be turned upside down as a result of conflict and violence. As a father, it breaks my heart to see children living in such difficult circumstances.”

Earlier this year Beckham launched 7: The David Beckham Unicef Fund, making a personal commitment to use his voice, influence and connections to raise vital funds and rally for lasting change for children.

With 7’s help, Unicef is making sure that children in Djibouti, including child refugees, get the vital vaccinations and medical care they need to protect them from preventable diseases so they can grow up healthy and strong.

David’s commitment to Unicef will continue with an emotional return to Old Trafford on Saturday 14 November, where he will captain a Great Britain and Ireland star line-up – featuring a host of Manchested United legends – against a Rest of the World team led by Zinedine Zidane, with players including Cafu, Luis Figo and Ronaldinho.

David’s visit to Djibouti is part of an upcoming BBC film where he goes on a journey to play seven games in all of the seven continents around the world.

sources:
-http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2015/11/09/d ... -djibouti/
-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... nture.html

[TheFuturist]

I don't like these kind of articles, it's always the same story. Famous/rich white celebrity visits some poor country, says oh look at how destitute and hungry they are and uses exploitative pictures to earn money for whatever Western charity they are supporting. A very large % of funds then go into 'overheads, expenses and admin costs'.

Djibouti may be new to Beckham, but it is not new to us.

[RoobleAlWaliid]

Very true TheFuturist. When I saw him play soccer on Facebook with Somalis. I thought wtf is he doing there, quickly Googled it, but disappointingly I saw that he was just there to promote poor refugee children for his refugee camp tour and thought I'd share it on a Somali forum.

This is the video I was talking about.

[Djiboutian]

The father-of-four admitted he was 'shocked' to see the children's lives turned upside down by conflict in neighbouring countries, including Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

They are lying. 99.9% never heard bullet sound let alone conflict. 97% of them came from Somaliland when the war stopped there. And the rest came from Western Somali Region in Ethiopia. Waxay is leeyihin passport Jabuutian ah aya la'din siinaya. Yaa ooo sheega in meesha luu dejiyay sii lacag lagaga cuno UN ka and to be used when the elections are close.

May Allah help them.

[RoobleAlWaliid]

The father-of-four admitted he was 'shocked' to see the children's lives turned upside down by conflict in neighbouring countries, including Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

They are lying. 99.9% never heard bullet sound let alone conflict. 97% of them came from Somaliland when the war stopped there. And the rest came from Western Somali Region in Ethiopia. Waxay is leeyihin passport Jabuutian ah aya la'din siinaya. Yaa ooo sheega in meesha luu dejiyay sii lacag lagaga cuno UN ka and to be used when the elections are close.

May Allah help them.

Ameen, good to see you have a heart.