Post by rewdie on Jul 24, 2006 14:28:29 GMT
Sir Alex Ferguson, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Ryan Giggs and several other United players paid a visit to a children’s hospital in Cape Town on Monday.
The Reds boss led his Manchester United delegation on a visit arranged by their global charity partner UNICEF to the Tygerberg Children’s Hospital with the aim of bringing attention to the plight of children within the Western Cape.
On their arrival at the hospital the United party were shown a ten-minute video detailing the suffering of children in the region, and indeed across South Africa, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expressed his shock at the plight of the children.
Solskjaer, a UNICEF ambassador, said: “As a dad, I know how much I worry about my children and what I would do for them.
“You look at the pictures and think 'how can people do such things?'
“It is easy to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t happen but someone has to stand up for these kids and show them you care.”
Many of the children the players met had suffered extreme physical abuse, brutal rape and acute malnourishment.
In the view of Hospital chief executive Terence Carter, such problems are a result of the lack of self-worth and a sad legacy of the dehumanising nature of the apartheid era.
The Reds boss led his Manchester United delegation on a visit arranged by their global charity partner UNICEF to the Tygerberg Children’s Hospital with the aim of bringing attention to the plight of children within the Western Cape.
On their arrival at the hospital the United party were shown a ten-minute video detailing the suffering of children in the region, and indeed across South Africa, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expressed his shock at the plight of the children.
Solskjaer, a UNICEF ambassador, said: “As a dad, I know how much I worry about my children and what I would do for them.
“You look at the pictures and think 'how can people do such things?'
“It is easy to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t happen but someone has to stand up for these kids and show them you care.”
Many of the children the players met had suffered extreme physical abuse, brutal rape and acute malnourishment.
In the view of Hospital chief executive Terence Carter, such problems are a result of the lack of self-worth and a sad legacy of the dehumanising nature of the apartheid era.
