Priyanka Chopra urges media to focus on spreading awareness instead of reporting about her clothes

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UNICEF’s global ambassador Priyanka Chopra recently paid a visit to Johannesburg and neighbouring Zimbabwe and spent time with child sexual abuse victims. She has urged the media to focus on spreading awareness instead of reporting about her clothes.

The actress said she is thankful for the influence of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in her life because of their compassion for children. Priyanka said she feels both Mandela and Gandhi bring South Africa and India together and “we’ll always be together because of that relationship. Both these great men stood for the rights of children and talked about how children were the foundation of our society, and our society can never get better if we ignore our children. Their learnings are always examples not just to me, but to the children of both our countries and to all of us”.

“Not only because I share my birthday with Madiba (Mandela’s clan name used as a term of endearment), which I do feel is very special and I do show off about it a little, but also because of the man that he was and what he stood for,” said the 34-year-old actress.

 

My start to a beautiful morning before ending an amazingly insightful trip. This is an Isibindi ("courage" in Zulu) Safe Park. The parks and program are all about prevention and early intervention to protect children from the HIV/AIDS crisis and many other vulnerabilities that can lead to violence in South Africa..The volunteer child and youth care workers (CYCW) help create a safe environment for children to play and be counseled in a controlled and protected environment. The National association of child and youth care workers (NACCW) is responsible for training almost 10,000 CYCWs and deliver services to almost 1.4 million children in SA..These workers connect with the children on a personal level, in their homes and in the park, and involve themselves in their daily life events like homework, household chores, and family issues. They use ordinary human interaction to feed these children teach them life skills and take care of the emotional needs of children -especially in child headed and parent less families. I've never seen so much commitment on such a personal level. I salute them ??

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Priyanka has been the UNICEF national Ambassador in India for nearly 10 years, and she was appointed as a UNICEF global Goodwill Ambassador in December 2016.