Alba On Fighting Child Poverty and Environmental Awareness
Posted on: April 26, 2010
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Jessica Alba is in New York these days to attend the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
The health conscious actress was spotted in a market in New York City with her daughter Honor doing a bit of grocery shopping (April 22nd).
Then later in the day, the Alba was off to the School of Visual Arts Theater where she participated on the ‘Climate Of Change’ panel during the film festival. Here’s what she had to say:
On 1GOAL the global education campaign she supports:
I was invited by Queen Rania of Jordan to participate in this campaign to basically put pressure on world leaders to make sure every child has access to education … It’s the most sustainable, real way to fight poverty for a child: to have a primary-school education. There are all these insane stats …
[It’s about] people lending their voice. Government won’t choose to make a change or make a difference unless people stand up for something, and so our campaign is to sign up and put pressure on the world leaders and force them to make a change. And so, along those lines, what we’re trying to do is educate the public.
On making her daughter more aware of being environmentally responsible:
I’m sort of obsessed with it, personally. I always have non-toxic cleaning products in my house. The only plastic she has is [from] my mom … I try to talk to my family about it. It’s tough for people to imagine that big companies and big corporations will produce things that are poisonous not only to their children but to the environment. And they feel like there’s nothing they can do, but actually you can read the label … and get behind companies that are doing the right thing. So that’s the way we live our life.
Source: Examiner
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