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Number one-ranked tennis player Roger Federer of Switzerland meets a patient on a visit to the Empilweni Hospital, which cares for people with TB and AIDS, in New Brighton near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Wednesday 02 March 2005. Federer believes that "children are the future of the world" and he is determined to play a role in ensuring them a better future through the Roger Federer Foundation and one of its beneficiaries, the Imbewu Community of Volunteers in South Africa. Federer came to Port Elizabeth to get a first-hand look at the work of Imbewu, a joint South African and Swiss community development project. (KEYSTONE/EPA/REG CALDECOTT)