“Ronaldo Zidane to play for the Flood Victims of Pakistan”The above mentioned headline made me very happy! World-class football players Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo have announced that their 8th Annual Match for Poverty will raise funds for the flood victims in Pakistan and victims of the Haiti Earthquake. The two also happen to be Goodwill Ambassadors for the UN. The match will take place on 15th December against the Greek Olympiacos. I can’t wait to watch it! Finally celebrities realize the kind of help Pakistan could use!These two have been promoting charity work for the poor for the UN Development Program and it makes me so happy to see their concern for Pakistan. I’m saying that because we hardly saw any celebrities from the west using their celebrity status to raise money for Pakistanis while all of them did so when there was an earthquake in Haiti. Things like these promote the ideas of equality and humanity.“With five years left to accomplish the set of eight goals,” said Zidane, “I hope this 8th Annual Match Against Poverty will help communicate a sense of urgency that we all need to join the team to end poverty now.” Zidane has always been my hero and I’m glad he is using his status to help a good cause like eradicating poverty.The amount raised in the match will be divided and the Ronaldo Zidane share will be given to Haiti and Pakistan and the Olympiacos will donate their share to the parents of children with special needs and to the homeless in Piraeus.I absolutely love it when celebrities use their status to actually do something for the society. People like Zindane, Ronaldo, Bono, Angelina Jolie etc work for the people from the world by using the UN platform and to be honest, the kind of impact Bono and Angelina Jolie would have is way better in raising funds for the poor than Ban Ki Moon asking people to donate. I mean more than half of the people of the world I’m pretty sure don’t care about what Ban Ki Moon has to say but they would follow their favorite celebrity and would look up to them.When I read this news today about Ronaldo and Zidane reminding the UN about the flood victims in Pakistan I was really happy to see these two are spreading awareness about helping Pakistan this would definitely have a huge impact as more people will now know that Pakistan could really use some help on international platforms. Zidane and Ronaldo have raised awareness for those who are ‘often too quickly forgotten’. I feel that they did take some time to realize that Pakistan is in need of help but oh well, it’s better late than never.