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IIMSAM - Goodwill Ambassadors / Envoys

Why They Are Needed

UNITED STATES

Monica Seles

IIMSAM'S GOODWILL AMBASSADOR IN SUPPORT OF THE UN MDGs THROUGH THE IIMSAM MANDATE IN FIGHTING MALNUTRITION.

"I am delighted to be back in IIMSAM as a GWA and to contribute in IIMSAM's efforts to help the people suffering from malnutrition in the world and I will use my privilege position to show how even individual contributions from individual people can help to ease those that are suffering particularly children. Providing proper nutrition with Spirulina to children and others is a simple and effective way of saving the next generation, and building a better future for millions, said Monica Seles.

As customary IIMSAM GWAs as part of their portfolio includes visiting the IIMSAM's Dar al Muamineen IIMSAM Centre in Kisumu, Republic of Kenya which received over 100,000 spirulina feeding visits last fiscal year (April to April 2009-2010) from children and adults suffering from malnutrition and other deprivations and diseases resulting from undernourishment amongst disabled children and others suffering from malnutrition and HIV/Aids. Ambassador Seles will also visit participating schools of the IIMSAM outreach Spirulina nutritional programme, as well as other projects worldwide where IIMSAM will provide proper nutrition with Spirulina to children adults and others suffering from severe malnutrition. Over the past year, the compounding effects of the economic crisis - which followed the 2008 high food price crisis - has pushed the number of hungry and malnourished past one billion for the first time in history.

A professional tennis player who battled her way to the pinnacle of her sport at a remarkably tender age, Monica Seles grew up as a native of Novi Sad in then-Yugoslavia (now Serbia), the daughter of a newspaper cartoonist-cum-animator. On many levels, 1990 represented Seles' "breakthrough year" -- a year that witnessed the then-16-year-old defeating the likes of Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf, reportedly earning more than 700,000 dollars and clocking in as the youngest female contender to win a Grand Slam in over a century. Numerous additional Grand Slam titles followed over the succeeding years, though in 1993 Seles was stabbed by a crazed German spectator who declared his obsession with seeing Graf recover her title as a number one champion; the event reportedly jarred Seles and negatively impacted her game. Seles drew a great deal of off-court attention in 2008, when the producers of ABC's competitive reality series Dancing With the Stars tapped her to perform as a dancer in the sixth season of their program. She participated alongside dance partner Jonathan Roberts.

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Olympic Gold Medalist/All-American Soccer Superstar Staci Wilson and Goodwill Ambassador of IIMSAM with a focus supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), IIMSAM's Mandate and CAMPMARADONA©

In the world of sports, an athlete secures a place in history when her team retires the number she wore. Few were surprised when University of North Carolina decided to honor All-America defender Staci Wilson by retiring her #27 jersey in 2001. In fact, it was as sure as a free kick on goal without the goalie present. Wilson is a certified superstar. And her resume is beyond impressive.

Wilson was a two-time Parade magazine All-American in high school. In 1995, Soccer Digest named her co-National College Player of the Year. She is widely considered the toughest defensive player in the history of the college game. At North Carolina, she was a member of three NCAA national championship soccer teams in 1994, '96 and '97. As a senior, in 1997, Soccer America magazine named her "first-team All-America." In 1995 and '96, Wilson played for the U.S. National team and was a member of the gold-medal-winning women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Drafted in 2000 by the Carolina Courage of the WUSA (Women"s United Soccer Association), Wilson played the 2001 season before nagging injuries slowed her professional career.

Born in Livingston, New Jersey, and currently living in Virginia. Staci is committed to devote all her efforts to the work of IIMSAM throughout the world with the help of her wide network of contacts and soccer affiliations to enhance the mandate of IIMSAM in support of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals as well as CAMPMARADONA©.