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Priyanka Chopra Visits Rohingya Refugee Camps In Bangladesh As Unicef Goodwill Ambassador

Priyanka Chopra In A Manish Malhotra Anarkali At A Book Launch In Delhi

Award shows and Royal weddings are not the only things that celebrities attend to stay in the limelight and Priyanka Chopra is a standing example of the same. After visiting the Syrian kids in Jordan last year, Priyanka Chopra, the global Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights, visited the Rohingya refugee camps on a field visit to Bangladesh.

The Quantico spent the day interacting with the kids and even took to Instagram to share heart-warming pictures from the camp. Take a look!

In her post, Priyanka mentioned, “I’m in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh today for a field visit with UNICEF, to one of the largest refugee camps in the world. In the second half of 2017, the world saw horrific images of ethnic cleansing from the Rakhine State of Myanmar(Burma). This violence drove nearly 700,000 Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh – 60% are children!”

She also added: “Many months later they are still highly vulnerable, living in overcrowded camps with no idea when or where they will ever belong…even worse, when they will get their next meal. AND…as they finally start to settle and feel a sense of safety, monsoon season looms…threatening to destroy all that they’ve built so far. This is an entire generation of children that have no future in sight. Through their smiles I could see the vacancy in their eyes.
These children are at the forefront of this humanitarian crisis, and they desperately need our help.
The world needs to care. We need to care. These kids are our future.”

The actress flew from Ireland to India, to be a part of the Unicef forum in the capital city. Priyanka worked with Unicef for a decade and was appointed as the national and global Unicef goodwill ambassador for Child Rights in 2010 and 2016 respectively. She promotes causes such as environment, health and education and women’s rights among many others.

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