Angelina Jolie, actress and humanitarian, has a new cause: she is the spokeswoman for Global Education Week and she has called on the worlds nations to help all of the worlds children to go to school. She was on a family vacation, when she emerged to speak on behalf of the children in poor countries who do not get a chance to go to school. When asked what was the worst thing on her mind, Jolie said that the lack of education causes death. She said that more children die under the age of 5 just because their parents were uneducated. She said that more people get AIDS because they aren't educated and that there are statistics that prove that if every child was in school, 700,000 less people would get AIDS. She adopted 2 children and says that her children could be in the same situation as the rest of the children. She especially looks at her daughter because millions of children, especially girls are uneducated. She says that there would have been no possible way her daughter would have been able to have gone to school. She looks at her son and says that he could have been one of the children digging through garbage cans. She is glad that she has helped 2 children in some way and that she is going to beable to provide a good, descent education for them. She said when she visited Cambodia, she said it must have been the worst thing in the world because she saw so many moms who were not able to give their children everything they deserve. She thinks that American people can help these children, even though we have problems at home. She says that it does not make sense to fix your own house when your neighbors are falling into chaos. The interviewer said that the US spends alot of money on helping poor people get educated and Jolie agreed. But she also said that 'no child left behind means no child left behind.' She says Britain gives 3 times as much as we do and that they arent richer than us and she doesnt understand what the excuse is.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12504495/
No comments:
Post a Comment