OPRAH Winfrey has said she will donate $100,000 in her Selma and
The Butler co-star David Oyelowo’s honour to the GEANCO Foundation, which specializes
in providing vital healthcare and education needs to girls in Nigeria.
Oyelowo and
Oscar-nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) are both involved with the
foundation and coincidentally both British actors of Nigerian descent who
have been friends since they were teenagers.
Oyelowo told THR his
concern in helping improve the sexism, health and education standards in
Nigeria has partly been fueled from watching the lives touched by Oprah, an
influential woman whom he now calls a mother figure.
The money from the Oprah
Winfrey Foundation will transform two schools in Nigeria, sponsored by Ejiofor
and Oyelowo, providing children with the proper learning supplies (computers,
books, notebooks) and medicine.
A portion of the funds
will also be distributed to organizations directly working with the recovery
of the rescued girls (who often come back traumatized and pregnant) from Boko
Haram.
- Sun News
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