Former Italian national team captain and famous World Cup player Roberto Baggio will visit Laos from September 3-5 to promote 2007 World Food Day's theme, “The Right to Food” as a Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Friday's press conference about Baggio's visit was led by FAO Representative to Laos , Mr Serge Verniau, and Vice President of the Lao Journalists' Association, Mr Somsanouk Mixay, at the association's office.
Baggio will arrive Vientiane on September 3, and will give a football demonstration at the National Stadium on September 4, at a time to be decided by the Lao National Sports Committee and the FAO.
According to a report from FAO, the FAO Ambassador programme began in 1999 with the main purpose of attracting public and media attention to the fact that many millions of people continue to suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition in a time of unprecedented plenty - an unacceptable situation.
FAO Ambassadors make a personal and professional commitment to address the universal humanitarian issues that underpin FAO's mission: to build a food-secure world for present and future generations.
Using their talents and influence, the ambassadors draw the old and the young, the rich and the poor into the campaign against world hunger, with the aim of making Food for All a reality in the 21 st century and beyond.
Super-striker Baggio was named FAO Ambassador at World Food Day in 2002.
