Why Nelson Mandela Should Be The Ambassador Of UNICEF

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Nelson Mandela) Many children around the world don’t have the best education. Thanks to UNICEF, this problem is slowly getting solved but, in order for people to start donating and helping this cause, an ambassador that is well known and liked in the eyes of the public will catch their attention. UNICEF not only helps children get an education, they also help children get a better life,and protects them from harsh living conditions, gender equality amongst children , and help with food, water, and medical needs of children all around the world. UNICEF has many choices for their next ambassador such as Gary Paulson and Eleanor Roosevelt because of their
As a young child, Nelson thought that he was free, free to do whatever he wanted. Yet, as he grew older, this idea of freedom changed. Mandela dedicated his life to making sure that the generations after him are free. Not just in his villages but in South Africa as a whole. Making sure that the children of the future get the comfort of knowing that they can be and do whatever they wanted. That no one owns that them. That when children grow up, they don’t have to make the same discovery he did. Mandela claimed that “ … my boyhood freedom was an illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been taken away from me …”(Mandela 735) He fought for the chance that one day everyone can have that Freedom. The sense of freedom he had as a child. This feeling, the hunger for freedom, made him so moved that he joined the South African Congress. He joined not just for his own freedom but “the greater hunger for freedom of my people. It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect …” (Mandela 735) Nelson will stop at nothing to ensure that the children that UNICEF strives to protect not just gets a good scene of education but of
Nelson Mandela is against oppression and this is what many of the children of the world is going through. “ … that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.” (Mandela) Mandela understands that the oppressed are not the only ones that need help but the ones that are doing the oppression. Mandela wants to help the oppressed and there are many children out there that need that kind of help. There are children that need to be saved from there living conditions, that need medical attention and better food quality and cruel families. “A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred …” (Mandela) No one should be oppressed because of their gender, race, and religion and that is what Nelson Mandela believes in. The children of the cuter and now should not have to know what oppression feels