UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has announced the appointment of Cate Blanchett as a Global Goodwill Ambassador.
The announcement comes as Cate returns from Jordan where she witnessed the ongoing humanitarian support to people displaced by conflict in Syria. She met Syrian refugee families to hear first-hand about the perilous journeys they had undertaken and the daily challenges they face.
Cate has been working with UNHCR to raise awareness about the forcibly displaced. In 2015, she traveled to Lebanon to meet Syrian refugees and to hear about the experiences of stateless people as part of her support for UNHCR’s #IBelong Campaign. She has also supported World Refugee Day, UNHCR’s appeal for the Europe refugee crisis, and attended the Women in the World Conference in New Delhi to represent UNHCR and moderate a high level panel discussion on the global refugee crisis.
Syrian refugee Alaa (shown meeting Cate in the video) is a DAFI scholar studying to be a teacher at University. You can find out more about the DAFI scholarship programme, which enables young refugees to continue post-secondary education, via the UNHCR website: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e4a2dd6....
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