Wed 28 Apr, 2010
Tribeca:Jessica Alba recently returned visiting Ghana, Senegal and South Africa.
Filed under: AFRICAN NEWSJessica Alba attended the premiere of her new movie The Killer Inside Me, which also co-stars Kate Hudson,
Casey Affleck, Ned Beatty and Simon Baker, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City yesterday (April 27). Looking delectable in a long white sleeveless gown, Jessica walked hand-in-hand with co-star Kate Hudson at the red carpet.
The Killer Inside Me tells the tale of “a West Texas deputy sheriff who is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.”
Jessica has recently campaigned to US Congressional leaders to help aid better standards of education in Africa.
The actress recently returned visiting Ghana, Senegal and South Africa with the 1GOAL charity, where she visited schools and football foundations set up to help provide schooling for needy children.
The charity is campaigning for the re-introduction of a global Education for All Act and estimates there are 72 million children worldwide who don’t have access to Education, 60 per cent of which are in Africa.
The halls of Capitol Hill were buzzing Wednesday morning with news that one of the world’s most sought-after women, actress Jessica Alba, would be dropping by to launch a new education initiative.
Alba, who is regularly listed near the top of lists of the “hottest” women in the world, was joined at a press conference by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), 26 fourth-graders from Rock Creek Valley Elementary School and more than a few admiring male congressional staffers.
The actress is teaming up with Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and South African President Jacob Zuma to launch 1GOAL, a campaign aimed at making education the lasting legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, being held this summer in South Africa.
“Around this World Cup, we can make education a reality for boys and girls around the world,” Alba told reporters. She said she recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Ghana, Senegal and South Africa, where she asked herself, “How many of us take our educations for granted? What if I couldn’t go to school because I was a girl?”
Lowey used the occasion of the actress’s visit to unveil legislation she plans to introduce that would create a Global Fund for Education similar to the existing fund for AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
