MARIA SHARES HER LOVE
Anne Frank once said that no one has ever become poor by giving.
Giving to the world in need is always good. So let us give it the space due here, folks. Without overly analyzing the gesture, Maria Sharapova donated $100,000.00 to be distributed to eight youth-oriented UN development rural projects in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia recovering from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It can be recalled that the expecting Sharapovs fled Belarus for Siberia in 1986 to avoid radiation from the Chernobyl disaster.
Maria Sharapova, at nineteen and the current number one in women’s tennis, has just also been named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) last February 14 at the UN headquarters in New York. It is a worthy move to use one’s celebrity status to highlight the important cause of eradicating global poverty which is just one of the aims of the Millennium Development goals adopted by 189 countries. Working on clear timelines with a 2015 target, UNDP is working to achieve measurable improvements in the world’s poorest people — goals such as eradicating poverty, putting children in schools, promoting women’s rights, fighting killer diseases, and providing access to safe drinking water around the world.
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