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Quantico’s actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Kenya


Popular US-based Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas is in Kenya.

The Quantico star is in the country for a humanitarian mission with UNICEF, an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

She shared a heart-wrenching video from her visit to Northern Kenya, highlighting the country’s water and hunger crisis looming large.

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Hollywood actress  Priyanka Chopra Jonas who is in Kenya. PHOTO COURTESY.
Hollywood actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas who is in Kenya. PHOTO COURTESY.

The actor is a global Goodwill Ambassador for child rights and visited the drought-hit regions to get first-hand information about the situation.
She said it affects her as a mother differently.

“I am very uneasy today. My mind is in a million places at one time, I am really feeling on the edge. It’s been this way since I boarded my flight from LA.

I am in Kenya with UNICEF to see first-hand the severe crisis that is unfolding. And as a new mother, it really hits differently. I know it’s going to be tough but I want to take you on this journey,” she says in the clip.

She captioned it on Instagram, adding, “Children are starving to death and millions are on the brink of starvation. This is the face of the climate crisis, and here in Kenya, it’s happening right now.

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But, there is hope and there are solutions. Over the next few days, I’ll be showing @unicef’s immense efforts happening on the ground to save lives. But in order to reverse this unprecedented crisis, money is desperately needed to ensure the good work continues.”

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She requested her fans to donate to the cause, “Please click the link in my bio and donate. In the words of Licbeg Kisika, a teacher I met today who is struggling to fund the school he runs in Sopel village with UNICEF.

What you think is small is the small that I don’t have.” I have donated and I hope you will too.”

The mother of one has been married to American singer Nick Jonas since 2018.

She won the 2000 Miss World pageant and is currently one of India’s highest-paid actresses in the world.

She was most recently seen in Keanu Reeves’ The Matrix Resurrections.

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