DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, 24 June, 2010 — Besides batting overs, taking runs and losing innings, South Asia’s top cricketers were bowling a hat trick of another kind during the Asia Cup — which wrapped up here today as India prevailed over Sri Lanka in the final match. Earlier in the tournament, the four skippers of four of the biggest cricket-playing nations in the world — Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Bangladesh’s Shakib al Hasan — took their eye off the ball briefly to speak from their heart about children. At a joint press conference held by the Asian Cricket Council and UNICEF, the message to governments and communities was clear: Invest in good nutrition, sanitation and girls’ education — three critical interventions to save children’s lives. “We don’t just care about cricket,” said Mr. Sangakkara. “We are fathers, we are husbands, we are brothers and we care about our communities. They are our families, our fans and they are our people. If we really care about our fans, we have to know what’s going on in these communities. And good nutrition and sanitation and girls’ education are for us the ultimate hat trick.” © UNICEF
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UNICEF: Food crisis ravages India’s poorest children
GURAVAL VILLAGE, Madhya Pradesh, India, 9 June 2008 — Despite a robust economy with 9 per cent annual growth in recent years, inflation and the food crisis in India now threaten to erode many of the gains made here. In order to address both the complex situation causing high rates of child malnutrition in India, the retail giant IKEA is supporting UNICEF India with an million package of health, nutrition, and water and sanitation programmes over the next five years. In the state of Madhya Pradesh, which has the highest child mortality and child malnutrition rates in the country, government supplementary programmes are under threat. Community workers have complained that they can no longer give severely malnourished children a healthy, balanced diet out of the 2 Rupees per day that they receive from government for each child. www.unicef.org
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