Footballer knew firsthand the extreme poverty in which they live thousands of children in Sierra Leone

David Beckham crashed for a few days its suit star to travel, as Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF to Africa in support of various initiatives of the United Nations agency for children. The British athlete, who is an ambassador for this organization since 2005 and already travelled to Thailand in 2001, travelled last weekend to Sierra Leone where he saw first-person misery in which thousands of children live. The visit was kept in strict secrecy for security reasons, but now we have reached the photographs testifying as poignant journey.

Beckham arrived on Friday to Freetown, capital of the African country, and near Kabala knew programmes developed to combat infant mortality, particularly against malaria, malnutrition and malaria, a disease that kills annually in sub-Saharan Africa 800,000 children not more than five years in a country where the majority of the population has less than one euro for daily living. Beckhams journey to Sierra Leone for four days, which included a visit to Makeni in the Bombali district, was programmed to expose the conditions under which they live in a country devastated by civil war and has the highest mortality child on the planet.

"We can not make us blind to the tens of thousands of children dying every day in the underdeveloped world," the player said in a statement. "One of every four children dies before reaching the age of five - is impressive and tragic especially when the solutions are simple - such as vaccines against measles or use of mosquito nets to reduce the chances of getting malaria. As Ambassador for UNICEF hope to be able to help bring attention to this problem around the world. "

They are words that take a special meaning coming from a father of three children that helps children most disadvantaged long. "Collaborates with many charities and has his own with his wife, Victoria," says a friend of David. "A lot of work is done in the shadows and do not want to be made public. But the aim of this trip was to educate the world the need to help those who need it. "