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Winfrey Founds South African School for Deprived Girls
Winfrey Founds South African School for Deprived Girls
By
WENN
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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- Talk-show queen
Oprah Winfrey
today opened a school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa, fulfilling a promise she made to former South African President Nelson Mandela six years ago.
The $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, situated in the small town of Henley-on-Klip, south of Johannesburg, aims to give 152 girls from deprived backgrounds a high quality education.
The opening was attended by singers
Tina Turner
,
Mary J. Blige
and
Mariah Carey
, actors
Sidney Poitier
and
Chris Tucker
, and director
Spike Lee
.
Mandela said in a statement, "This is a lady that has, despite her own disadvantaged background, become one of the benefactors of the disadvantaged throughout the world."
At a press conference to mark the opening,
Winfrey
said she hoped the school would "change the face of a nation. Girls who are educated are less likely to get AIDS and in this country that has such a pandemic, we have to begin to change the pandemic.
"I wanted to give this opportunity to girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty could dim that light."
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Photo(s) by Scott Kirkland- © 2006- DailyCeleb.com- All Rights Reserved
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