A children's charity has urged Glasgow 2014 fans to pay a bit extra for their ticket to help children in Scotland and throughout the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Games organisers have teamed up with Unicef to offer ticket buyers the option of donating up to £5 to the charity, the first partnership of its kind in the games' history.
The money will help improve the lives of babies and children in Scotland and in Commonwealth countries
A single £1 donation is enough to buy 60 polio vaccines and a £5 donation can protect two families from malaria with mosquito nets.
Unicef UK executive director David Bull said: "I very much hope people applying for tickets for the Glasgow 2014 Games will choose to add a donation to Unicef."
Glasgow 2014 chief executive David Grevemberg said: "Having this opt-in donation available within our ticket programme is a really simple but tangible way every sports fan who is part of the excitement of the Games can also do their bit to help transform the lives of children."
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