* UNICEF: Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo visits girl education projects in Sierra Leone
* 시간: 02 min 13 secs
* 촬영도시: Mankneh Two
* 촬영국가: Sierra Leone
* 촬영일자: 04 Sep 2008

With music and dance, members of Mankneh Two, a small village in northern Sierra Leone greeted UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo .

Ms. Kidjo visited the country to highlight the importance of supporting girl’s education projects in this embattled African country.

There Ms. Kidjo met with members of the mother’s club, a group that advocates for boys and especially girls to go to school and complete their education

SOT: ANGELIQUE KIDJO, UNICEF GOODWILL AMABASSADOR
“ I urge them to continue doing the effort to get their kids to school and help them stay in school”

As a means of supporting their children’s education the mother’s club has started a vegetable garden which helps pay for school costs.

During her visit, Ms Kidjo also met with members of the Girls Tell us Forum, a UNICEF supported group that explores issues affecting girls in and out of school.

It also proposes solutions to increase girl’s participation in education and to fight problems related to poverty, early marriage, and sexual abuse and exploitation.

SOT: ANGELIQUE KIDJO, UNICEF GOODWILL AMABASSADOR
“ School is the only solution that we have to beat poverty. The future of Africa is in your hands, because if you are educated you educate the nation, if you are educated you educate your men, you educate your brothers and then we change this cycle of poverty and we change the cycle of early marriage.”

With the support of UNICEF and the government and with the message of this passionate GWA the fight to end gender disparity in education will bring about much needed change to fight the cycle of poverty in the country.