FIFA Offers Football Stars Autographs to Raise Charitable Donations
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Lisa Vronskaya
FIFA is inviting bids from football fans worldwide for a unique book containing the signatures of all the 736 players and head coaches of the finalist teams now vying for the World Cup in Germany, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association reported on its official Website.
The unique collections of footballers’ signatures will be auctioned with the proceeds going to the official charity campaign led by the FIFA, “Six Villages for 2006”. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter said he was particularly pleased that football will be able to give children especially in poor countries the prospect of a better future as a result of the 'Six Villages for 2006' campaign.
The 32 pages will be bound in precious leather. Top names, including Ronaldinho, Ballack, Totti, Riquelme, Beckham, Drogba, Parreira, Hiddink, Tunisia's Hatem Trabelsi and Paraguay's Carlos Bonet, have all signed the book for a good cause. The proceeds from the auction of the autograph book will go towards building six children's villages.
The six new SOS Children's Villages (in Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, the Ukraine and Vietnam) will afford permanent support in the form of schools, community centers, kindergartens and other related facilities to 5,000 boys and girls. 800 of these children will find a permanent home in these new SOS Children's Villages. Furthermore, 1,000 families will have access to help from the SOS community centres. FIFA has itself donated 321,000 euros to the six villages. By the start of the World Cup, 12 of the targeted 18 million euros had been collected.
Charity News Online
Lisa Vronskaya
FIFA is inviting bids from football fans worldwide for a unique book containing the signatures of all the 736 players and head coaches of the finalist teams now vying for the World Cup in Germany, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association reported on its official Website.
The unique collections of footballers’ signatures will be auctioned with the proceeds going to the official charity campaign led by the FIFA, “Six Villages for 2006”. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter said he was particularly pleased that football will be able to give children especially in poor countries the prospect of a better future as a result of the 'Six Villages for 2006' campaign.
The 32 pages will be bound in precious leather. Top names, including Ronaldinho, Ballack, Totti, Riquelme, Beckham, Drogba, Parreira, Hiddink, Tunisia's Hatem Trabelsi and Paraguay's Carlos Bonet, have all signed the book for a good cause. The proceeds from the auction of the autograph book will go towards building six children's villages.
The six new SOS Children's Villages (in Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, the Ukraine and Vietnam) will afford permanent support in the form of schools, community centers, kindergartens and other related facilities to 5,000 boys and girls. 800 of these children will find a permanent home in these new SOS Children's Villages. Furthermore, 1,000 families will have access to help from the SOS community centres. FIFA has itself donated 321,000 euros to the six villages. By the start of the World Cup, 12 of the targeted 18 million euros had been collected.
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