Helping children smile.

• Author: Endrst, Elsa B.
• Position: Actor Roger Moore is appointed United Nations Children's Fund Special Representative

'What I really want to do is make children smile", said British actor Roger Moore, best known for his cinematic portrayal of Special Agent 007--James Bond.

And in Mr. Moore's view, children can only smile if their stomachs are full and if they are healthy. "If we have healthy children who are smiling, we might have a smiling world. People who smile don't hit one another and", he added, "wouldn't that be lovely!"

In August, he was appointed United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Special Representative for the Film Arts at a ceremony held at UN Headquarters in New York.

Accompanied by his 18-year old son, Christian, Mr. Moore immediately undertook his first mission for the agency. They visited UNICEF-assisted facilities in Central America, including health and sanitation centres, schools and projects for street children and community development. The countries visited were Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica.

After the trip, Mr. Moore told a press conference in Dallas: "A week ago, I helped introduce running water to a village in Guatemala. I was privileged to turn on the tap which the community had built with UNICEF...