UNICEF People
Sir Roger Moore Activity Highlights
2007 • September • In Vienna, Austria, Sir Roger launched the ‘Schools for Africa’ campaign an initiative by the Austrian Committee for UNICEF to raise funds to build schools in Malawi. (Roger Moore web site)
2006 • July • In St. Petersburg, Russia, Sir Roger attended the opening ceremony of Junior 8. Both he and UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman addressed the opening of the summit. (Newsline) (Roger Moore web site)
2006 • June• In Canada, Sir Roger participated in the Starwood/Check Out for Children event for UNICEF to raise funds for Starwood's immunization programme in Ethiopia. Sir Roger and Lady Kristina attended a reception and helped launch a bike ride from Amsterdam to Brussels which brought in over Euros 268,000.
2006 • February • In Quebec, Sir Roger participated in the Canadian Fundraiser, 'Vue sur Bond', a celebration of the Bond films. The three-day event was designed to raise funds for Quebec City's 3 Americas Film Festival and UNICEF. (Roger Moore web site)
2005 • November • In India, Sir Roger and Lady Moore promoted the use of iodized salt. They visited a primary school in Bhamoria district, which has had a comprehensive awareness-raising programme on iodized salt and met with salt producers, local NGOs, government officials and civil society organizations in Jaipur. (Newsline)
2004 • August • In Beijing, China, Sir Roger and his wife attended the Asian Football Confederation’s 50th Anniversary Gala to raise funds for a UNICEF-assisted project that helps support AIDS orphans. In Xian, West China, they also saw the production and use of iodized salt. (UNICEF people)
2004 • Janaury • In Mexico, Sir Roger attended a ceremony for the announcement of a pledge of £150,000 to support UNICEF’s work for the education for all children in the city. (News note)
2003 • October • In Cambodia, Sir Roger Moore advocated for increased production and use of iodized salt to combat iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), a major threat to the health and development Cambodian children. (UK NatCom)
2002 • November • On emergency mission in Zambia, Sir Roger and his wife visited households and communities worst affected by drought, food shortages and HIV/AIDS, as well as UNICEF-funded street children projects in Lusaka, and nutrition units and water and sanitation projects in rural villages. (Real lives)
2001 • November • In New York, Sir Roger helped launch a new alliance between world soccer governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and UNICEF.
1991-1997 • Sir Roger visited UNICEF-assisted projects in Mexico, Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan and Korea (1997); Philippines (1996); Brazil, Costa Rica; El Salvador; Honduras; Guatemala (1991). (Archive)
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| Assisted by UNICEF and other relief workers, Sir Roger Moore distributes toys to Kosovar refugee children. TFYR Macedonia, 1999. |
