WTA:”Stop10Seconds”: Kerber supports UNICEF campaign

Angelique Kerber, together with football world champion Mats Hummels and cult rocker Udo Lindenberg, is committed to the latest UNICEF campaign. Under the motto #Stop10Seconds, 10,000 children in Southern Sudan will be saved from starvation.

Kerber (30) has been an ambassador for UNICEF for some time now,”I am talking about something that is really important to me today. Every ten seconds a child dies in the world from the consequences of hunger. This number just makes us concerned and has to shake us up! That’s why I want to do something. Now. With you. Together,”said the two-time Grand Slam winner on Tuesday in a video message that she posted on her homepage.

Kerber, as well as Hummels and Lindenberg, who are also UNICEF ambassadors, act as faces of the #Stop10Seconds campaign, which is close to the trio’s heart. According to the organisation, a child under five years of age dies every ten seconds worldwide from malnutrition. In Southern Sudan, children flee daily from the cruel civil war militias. They hardly have anything to eat, because the harvests are destroyed. There is no clean drinking water, which is why dangerous diseases continue to spread. There is a threat of further famine – and soon the dry season begins.

Hummels stressed that a child could be saved from starvation by donating 35 euros a month. The goal is to save 10,000 children, the Bayern Munich international added in the campaign video:”Every ten seconds a child dies from hunger. This is intolerable for anyone, an unacceptable state of affairs that we want to change,”said Hummels. On Facebook, Kerber asked tennis icon Boris Becker and ski star Felix Neureuther to support the initiative (www.stop10seconds.org). According to tennisnet information, she succeeded…!!!