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News16 Sep 2005


Hicham El Guerrouj takes part in UN’s annual Conference for NGO

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New YorkTwotime Olympic champion Hicham El Guerrouj who is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Morocco took part in the 58th Annual DPI/NGO Conference which was held in New York from 7 to 9 September.

El Guerrouj spoke on the subject “fight against poverty: dates to respect, lives to save” and presented how sport can be a means towards developing a strategy in the fight against hunger.

El Guerrouj stated that sport is a tool of development, peace and tolerance.

“Sport enhances one’s life. It has been proved that when you give youngsters the chance to practice a sport then you give them a chance to have healthier habits which can preserve them from drugs, smoke and HIV,” said El Guerrouj.

Mohammed Benchrif for the IAAF


 

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