“We must feel that we are all citizens of this one planet because unless we do, we won’t solve the problems,” Mr. Attenborough said in an interview with the UN.
Film producer and director Richard Attenborough was introduced as the new Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 28 October 1987. (file)
Lord Richard Attenborough (1923-2014) was an actor, film producer and director.
He built a familiarity with UNICEF programmes and staff during the filming of Gandhi in India, during which special fundraising premiers helped raise over $1 million for the agency.
In 1994, he undertook an extensive mission to Africa, campaigning for the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2000, just after Mozambique had been devastated by floods, he visited the country to launch a joint appeal by UNICEF and the United Kingdom’s Observer newspaper.
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