Monday, April 20, 2009

!! Celebrities promoting humanitarian convictions

Several movie stars, models and musicians all across the world are commanding media’s attention, while promoting charity for environmental and merciful causes. Some most famous amongst them are Angelina Jolie, Bono, Leonardo Di Caprio. Since several years, songwriters and singers were trying to draw attention towards poverty and famine in Africa.

Leonardo Di Caprio major focus lays on climatic change. He commented, watching the cultural understanding of the issue now is, in itself, encouraging. Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the House of Lords has spent years in traveling to raise awareness of the poor and oppressed in countries like Burma, Uganda and East Timor. She said, "I know with our little organization what a huge difference we can make with a little bit of money. I'd like to know where the big budgets go."

Late last years, Actor Ben Affleck put together a campaign film for the U.N. about the refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Actress Mia Farrow has become a career celebrity diplomat who even traveled to refugee camps in Sudan more than a dozen times and told VOA in 2007 the situation there was reckless.

After the number one hit famous 1985 song, ‘We are the world’, several celebrities are working to help the needy and necessitous persons. Though as per U.N children fund UNICEF, poverty still sources the deaths of up to 30,000 children per day.

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