Craig Mottram, Australia’s best long distance runner is to be announced as Plan’s newest Goodwill Ambassador at a World AIDS Day breakfast in Melbourne on Thursday (1/12/05).

Craig Mottram will join Jamie Durie - Plan Goodwill Ambassador and TV celebrity landscape designer to raise awareness of the issues faced by children in developing Commonwealth nations under the banner Children are our Common Wealth for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Goodwill Partnership.

One of the four priority programs identified by the partnership – the "Reducing community Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" Program , which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, will be showcased at the World AIDS Day breakfast.

For the lead up and during the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Craig Mottram’s role as Goodwill Ambassador will be to encourage more Australians to support Plan by sponsoring a child or donating to one of Plan’s child centred priority programs in developing Commonwealth nations.

What: Plan announces Craig Mottram as Goodwill Ambassador on World AIDS Day.

Who: Craig Mottram, Australian ath, Jamie Durie, TV personality and award winning landscape designer and Ian Wishart, National Executive Director of Plan

When: THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER, 9:00a

Where: RACV Club Ballroom, 17th Floor, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne.

For further information and photographs contact:

Tim Cansfield-Smith
Plan
03 9672 3656  or  0411 642 194