Pupils met Sir Roger in Finland
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Roger and Lady Kristina in Finland - Sept, 2. 2005 |
On Friday September the 2nd, 2005 the seventh Unicef walk was opened
by Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, Sir Roger Moore. He held a press
conference at the hotel Torni in Helsinki, Finland, and started
this year’s walking campaign.
The honorary guests of the press conference were the pupils from
the various Finnish Unicef schools. School of Laurilahti, Espoo
was represented by the fourth graders Aamos Varesmaa and Juha Eriksson
accompanied with their teacher Liisa Vallenius. Fifth graders Nicole
Takkula and Eeva-Liisa Wäre with their principal Heikki Eskola
represented the School of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki.
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The pupils were able to ask some questions
to Sir Moore after his speech.
Sir Roger Moore and the members of the media listened carefully
when pupils from Espoo asked:
“How did you become Unicef Goodwill Ambassador?”
It turned out that a good friend of Sir Moore, an actress
Audrey Hepburn had allured him to join the Unicef work. |
The pupils from Munkkiniemi wanted to know what is the most important
task of the Goodwill Ambassador and what should the ordinary people
think of the Unicef? Sir Roger Moore answered that for him the most
important thing is to travel all over the world to speak about Unicef
work and in that way to try and secure the well-being of children.
By speaking about Unicef he tries to encourage more men and women
to take part in the work and help children.
Sir
Roger Moore with the pupils from the Finnish UNICEF Schools
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He wishes that all the people in the world would think the same
way about Unicef as he does: “Unicef works hard to help the
world’s less fortunate children. This work is extremely important
and everybody from the little children to the adults should participate
in this work.”
The
new Finnish Goodwill Ambassador, Jyrki69 took part in the
event. In this photo Jyrki69 is with Sir Moore and his wife,
Lady Kristina.
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Many
thanks to Janne Porras
©
UNICEF Finland 2005
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