International Charity Partner - UNICEF
Respected children’s charity UNICEF was selected at the start of season 2008/09 as the Rangers Charity Foundation’s international partner for an initial three year period. Rangers becomes the charity’s only Scottish football partner and only the sixth partner club in world football alongside the likes of Barcelona, Manchester United and AC Milan.
The Foundation has pledged to raise £300,000 to fund a UNICEF education project in India across 15 states, reaching over 45,000 children in over 200 schools.
In India, approximately 5 million children aged between 6 and 11 miss out on a school education. The majority of these are girls with many of them coming from poor, disadvantaged communities. Many schools have inadequate learning facilities and teaching materials, with classrooms often over crowded and children unable to complete their studies.
Money raised by the partnership will support a public campaign aimed at increasing school admissions, buy books, teaching materials and classroom materials, improve the learning environment and teaching facilities in over 150 schools, fund a campaign that identifies and helps young girls who have been unable to complete primary school, provide training to teachers and improve the water and sanitation facilities in over 200 schools. The Foundation hopes to visit the project in India with a first team player during 2010 to see first hand the work UNICEF and the Rangers Charity Foundation are doing together.
UNICEF UK Executive Director David Bull commented: “I am delighted that Rangers has chosen to support UNICEF’s education work in India. Access to education is something we often take for granted. For thousands of children, this project will bring the precious opportunities an education can offer a step closer.”
UNICEF is the leading children’s organisation, reaching children in more than 150 countries around the world. UNICEF works with local communities and governments across the globe to help every child realise their full potential by providing health care, nutrition, education and by protecting children affected by crises including war, natural disasters and HIV and AIDS.
For further information on UNICEF you can visit their website by clicking here.
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