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Photo-pledges from Unicef Ambassadors and World Photography Academy Members
Credit: David Turnley© UNICEF UK - courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2009'
David Beckham, UK
From 18 to 20 January 2008, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and British football legend David Beckham visited Sierra Leone to call international attention to the issue of child survival. In Sierra Leone, under-five mortality rates are the highest in the world; some 27 per cent of the country’s children die before reaching their fifth birthday. Sierra Leone also has the world’s highest maternal mortality rate, estimated at 1,300 per 100,000 live births.
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