July 31st 2008
The Green Quote: Natalie Portman Helps Makes The World A Better Place
Filed under: green and famous — parrish @ 12:49 pm
“Look – the one thing that I find really shocking, I mean, that is something you don’t learn in school that I was really surprised to find out about, was that not only are two-thirds of the world’s population in poverty, under $3 a day – that’s like 4 billion people – 70% of them are women and children, which I think is shocking. They’re calling it the feminization of poverty – it’s becoming more and more so. And when women are the poor ones in society, are disproportionally making up the world’s poor, you get an imbalance of power obviously between the sexes, which obviously leads to other social inequalities for women, more violence probably, and when a child is brought up into a world where his Dad has money and his mother does not, they might be more likely to follow their father into violence or drunkenness – these are a lot of the sort of problems you find in many of these communities in terms of how children make their choices.”
- A rather lengthy quote from Natalie Portman (aka the girl of my dreams) about one of the many reasons she works with FINCA. To read the whole interview, visit looktothestars.org!
that’s shocking, but what percentage of the world’s population do women and children represent? without that data the statistics are insignificant.
[...] the past Natalie has spoken out against poverty, helped bring attention to the problems in Rwanda and encouraged American citizens to get out and [...]
[...] the past Natalie has spoken out against poverty, helped bring attention to the problems in Rwanda and encouraged American citizens to get out and [...]