#ICC Cricket for Good & #UNICEF launch Team Swachh clinics in partnership with #BCCI
ICC Cricket for Good & UNICEF launch Team Swachh clinics in partnership with BCCI
Mumbai, 6 March 2016 – Building up to the ICC World T20 in India, the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket for Good and UNICEF in partnership with BCCI launched the Team Swachh clinics during the ICC WT20 Host City Tour. This is to promote a nationwide initiative that aims to build a social movement for sanitation and toilet use there by leading to an open-defecation-free India.
The ICC WT20 Men’s and Women’s trophies travelled on the Nissan Trophy Tour float through the streets of Mumbai. Exhilarated fans got the opportunity to photograph themselves with the ICC WT20 Trophies.
A specially designed double-decker bus carried the children from a local NGOs and Indian cricket teamplayer Sameer Dighe and Diana Edulji. The Indian cricket player interacted with fans as the cavalcade made its way to photograph themselves with the ICC Trophies.
Playing cricket-based games with the children along with advocating the use of toilets, Sameer Dighe and Diana Edulji engaged with the children when sharing cricketing tips and discussing the importance of hygiene and sanitation in the specially designed Team Swachh WASH clinic set up inside the Wankhede Stadium.
Calling the initiative a ‘social movement for sanitation’, Ms. Caroline Den Dulk, Chief of Communication, UNICEF India said, “The idea of team and team play is at the core of the Team Swachh initiative and it leverages the vast passion of the sport in the country to advocate toilet use and save lives of children.”
The ICC WT20 Host City Tour visited each of the venues in Dharamshala, Mohali, Delhi, Kolkata, Nagpur, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai that will host the ICC WT20 matches. Present and former Indian cricket players from women and men team advocated for open defecation free india during the ICC world T20 trophy tour that travelled across 8 cities in India. The players are Rishi Dhawan in Dharamshala, Gurtheerath Singh in Mohali, Yuvraj Singh and Pawan Negi in Delhi, Umesh Yadav in Nagpur, Manoj Tiwary and Mythali in Kolkata, Dinesh Karthik in Chennai, Venkatesh Prasad and Jhulan Goswami in Bengaluru and Sameer Dighe and Diana Edulgi in Mumbai.
Earlier in October 2015, the ICC Cricket For Good and UNICEF launched a five-year global partnership in New York. They decided to engage the broader cricketing community to empower children and adolescents. In particular, during the many ICC events over the next five years, they will develop and implement various community outreach programmes and initiatives in collaboration with coaches, cricketers and cricketing personalities.
See video:
Trophy tour at Dharamshala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Trophy tour at Mohali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Trophy tour at New Delhi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Overview:
Team Swachh is an integrated nationwide initiative that aims to build a social movement for sanitation and toilet use thereby leading to an open-defecation-free India. This visionary collaboration between ICC and UNICEF aims to raise awareness about challenges faced by the most disadvantaged children and focuses on improving sanitation. The ICC WT20 is the launch platform to advocate for children, leveraging the reach and popularity of cricket in India.
WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) is a group of interrelated public health issues that are of particular interest to international development programmes.
For more information, please contact:
UNICEF:
Caroline Den Dulk, Chief, Advocacy & Communication
Tel: +91-981 810 6093, Email: cdendulk@unicef.org
Geetanjali Master, Communication Specialist
Tel: 91-981 810 5861, E-mail: gmaster@unicef.org
Sonia Sarkar, Communication Officer – Media
Tel: +91-981 017 0289, E-mail: ssarkar@unicef.org
