Kareena Kapoor appointed UNICEF India National Ambassador: “Every child deserves a fair chance at life”

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New Delhi:

Kareena Kapoor Khan is one of the most popular names in Bollywood. Apart from being a renowned actress, she has also worked for social causes. Today, UNICEF India appointed her as its National Ambassador.

Kareena Kapoor has been associated with UNICEF India since 2014 and has worked on issues such as girls’ education, gender equality, basic learning, immunization and breastfeeding.

During the event, she spoke about child care, children’s rights and nurturing their confidence.

“Every child deserves a right to safety, a right to gender equality, a right to education, a safe environment, health and nutrition.”

She said her appointment as UNICEF India National Ambassador was a very special moment for her.

“I am very honored and honored to accept this position. I have worked tirelessly and I have worked very hard with all my heart. And now, finally, I am joining them as a national ambassador. But of course , with this comes a huge responsibility that I accept with all my heart to ensure that every child in every corner of India, however vulnerable, wherever they are, whoever they are.. . I must include when I say each child, I do not specify their gender “I do not want, voice or not, disabled or handicapped… I specify each child for whom I will work to give them their fundamental right…” , she said.

“Every child deserves a fair chance at life, with the first five years of life being its foundation. Every child deserves a childhood, the first five years, I repeat, being the most important and formative years. They deserve a right – a right to security, a right to gender equality, a right to education, to primary education, to a safe environment, to health and nutrition. They fundamentally deserve a fair chance at life.

Kareena shared that as a mother of two sons, Taimur and Jeh, she realized that every child “needs a voice.”

“Of course this role is the most important, but the most important role I play in my life is being a mother to my two boys. And I always feel that children need to express themselves .They like to be heard no matter what environment they are in, whether it is talking to their parents, their peers, or their teachers. they want to be heard. They want to feel like someone is listening to everything they say, regardless of their age. And that’s something I make a conscious effort to do with my kids. , is that if they have a voice, we must, must hear them clearly,” she shared.

The ‘Crew’ star stressed the need to develop a child’s confidence so that they can innovate with new ideas and dream big in life.

“And nourish their confidence. Because confidence gives them the ability to dream, the ability to fly, the ability to have ideas, to innovate, which they need because children are, they are the future. They are the future of our nation. So having that, we have to build their confidence, so that’s also a fundamental right, what we have to do,” she said.

“And by that I mean getting them involved in sports, theater, painting, arts, reading, things like that, which is what we plan to do. And that’s what I want. Those two things are, I think, the most important thing in a child’s formative years, which I’m sure we will do in the years to come. And of course, I would like to say that it has been an absolutely wonderful journey, a decade with UNICEF India,” she added. .

On the film front, Kareena is currently enjoying the success of ‘Crew’, in which she shared screen space with Kriti Sanon and Tabu.

Directed by Rajesh A Krishnan, ‘Crew’ revolves around the journey of three women workers against the backdrop of the aviation industry.

The film also stars Diljit Dosanjh, Kapil Sharma, Saswata Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

In the coming months, she will be seen headlining Hansal Mehta’s “The Buckingham Murders.” She also has Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham Again’ in her kitty.

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