Priyanka Chopra promotes refugee education on Ethiopia visit
ASSOSA, Ethiopia — Actress Priyanka Chopra is in Ethiopia to promote access to education for refugee children.
Chopra is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children’s agency. She spoke with The Associated Press after visiting a school for refugees from neighbouring Sudan.
She says that “if we don’t care about these children, I feel that they will be extremely vulnerable to extremism and violence.”
The Bambusi camp’s primary school director, Yetinayet Girma, told Chopra they have shortages of teachers, classrooms and textbooks for over 6,000 students.