At the World Economic Forum 2020, Priyanka Chopra Jonas talked about the ways to eradicate poverty. She emphasized the importance of investing in country's people and creating a population people want to invest in. The actress took part in a fireside chat with many renowned personalities from across the world. She talked about the need to create the kind of progress one wants to see to eradicate poverty. Priyanka also talked about how India successfully eradicated polio with the help of 200 million volunteers.
She said, "11 years ago, 60% of the world polio cases were in India. Five years later, eradicated. And that was because of the massive campaign that the government and almost 200 million volunteers, top-down and bottom-up, got together and said that we are going to make the change in this country. Let's bring the world to a place where a child's dreams are achievable, where that child can get an education, where that child can have papers, where that child can actually have a future."
She added, "I would love to live in a place where my children, when I have them, can grow up in a world where the world leaders have listened to Greta's (Thunberg) generation. I want my kids to grow up in a place where climate crisis is contained, if not averted. I want to live in a place where a woman's ability to succeed should be a basic human right and not based on geography or chance."
Priyanka Chopra has been associated with UNICEF for more than a decade now.
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