Tuesday, 1 August 2017

US Actor George Clooney and Wife Amal Clooney Launches a Support Campaign for Educating Syrian Children



According to the statement released on the official website of Clooney foundation for justice, Famous actor George Clooney and wife Amal Clooney recently launched a campaign to support education for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

The initiative is a partnership between the Clooney Foundation and Google.org, with an additional $1 million technology grant from the IT giant HP. Summing the overall value of the partnership to be $ 2.25 million.
In their recent statement, George Clooney and Amal Clooney said. “The lives of thousands of young Syrian refugees are at risk, which is on the verge of losing their part in the society completely. We took this initiative to provide a doorway for them to earn a formal education. They should not get the punishment of getting born at the wrong place and the wrong time. Thus, we certainly don’t want to lose an entire generation.
 “This partnership with UNICEF is definitely going to help around 3000 currently out-of-school refugee students this year, this will include establishing seven public schools to give crucial learning opportunities. This will also help support to make use of the technological tools in these schools for providing advanced learning systems for Lebanese children in the region,” the reports said.

According to UNICEF, the respective Lebanese party has already shown signs of praising the Hollywood star. Beirut is “deeply grateful” for the initiative taken by the Clooney family, said the Lebanon’s education minister, Marwan Hamadeh.


George Clooney is a US actor, director, and producer born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana (2006) and the other for co-producing Argo (2012).

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