New Delhi: UNICEF India today celebrated World Children’s Day (WCD), with this year’s theme focusing on ‘Schools as a supportive environment for Children’. Legendary cricketer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sachin Tendulkar played a unified football match with athletes from Special Olympics Bharat.
Sachin also participated in a panel discussion with Soundarya Pradhan, India’s first ever silver medal winner at the World Junior Chess Championship for the Blind, Prof Hrishikesh Senapaty, Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Air Marshal Denzil Keelor, Founder Trustee of Special Olympics Bharat and Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF India.
Speaking on the occasion, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sachin Tendulkar said, “Our children,our future requires Better education, better schools and the best learning experience. A day for children and by children, that’s what World Childrens Day is all about. Each school should focus on hygiene and sanitation. There should be no reason for children to stop going to schools.”
He further said, “Sports has the strength to bring everyone together. It doesn’t recognise the colour of your skin, it doesn’t discriminate.”
