Jacqueline Fernandez, who is coming to Abu Dhabi next month to shoot Bollywood action-drama Dishoom, is the latest celebrity to join the Global Goals Campaign, which aims to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change.
She is contributing to a crowdsourced film, We the People, which everybody around the world is invited to take part in. It will be screened during the UN Sustainable Development summit on Friday, which will be attended by about 200 world leaders.
Participants read lines from a script by British filmmaker Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually), about whichever of the 17 goals of the campaign they have adopted.
Fernandez, who has adopted goal number 15 – to protect life on land – posted a selfie of herself with the number fashioned out of flowers. She also sent out a rallying cry to her fans on Twitter: "Come & co-star with me in an epic new video We the People to support the #GlobalGoals – We can change the world!"
Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan and A R Rahman have also contributed footage. In his video, Roshan emphasises “Goal three: Good Health,” saying, “We will live in a world where no child has to die from diseases we know how to cure.” Kumar opted to support “Goal five: Gender Equality.”
Others supporting the campaign include Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, actors Ashton Kutcher, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez and Kate Winslet, boy band One Direction and Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan. Visit www.globalgoals.org for more details.
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