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Kareena Kapoor Khan, a beloved Bollywood star known for her acting and charitable work, has been appointed as UNICEF India’s National Ambassador. Kareena has been working with UNICEF India since 2014, advocating for girls’ education, gender equality, basic learning, vaccinations, and breastfeeding.
At the event, she discussed the importance of children’s well-being, their rights, and empowering them to build confidence. “Every child deserves a right a right to safety, a right to gender equality, a right to education, safe environments, health and nutrition.”
Upon her appointment as UNICEF India’s National Ambassador, Kareena expressed happiness. “I’m very honoured and very humbled to take on this position. I’ve worked tirelessly and worked very hard with all my heart. And now, finally, I’m joining them as a national ambassador. But of course, with that comes a huge responsibility which I accept with all my heart to ensure that every child through the corners of India, however vulnerable, wherever he is, whoever she is…I must include when I say every single child, I do not specify gender, I do not want to, voice or no voice, abled or disabled…I specify every single child I will work towards to give them their fundamental right…,” she added.
The star of ‘Crew’ highlighted the importance of nurturing children’s confidence, enabling them to explore new ideas and aspire for big dreams in life. “And nurturing their confidence. Because confidence gives them the ability to dream, ability to fly, ability to have ideas, to innovate, which they need because children are, they are the future. They are the future of our nation. So to have that, we must build their confidence. So that is also a fundamental right, which we have to do,” she expressed.
Kareena expressed that as a mother to her two sons, Taimur and Jeh, she has come to understand the importance of advocating for every child to have a voice.
“Of course, this role is 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 a voice. They like to be heard. Whatever it is, whichever environment they’re in, whether it’s talking to their parents, talking to their peers, or talking to their teachers, they want to be heard. They want to feel like someone’s listening to whatever they’re saying, at whatever age, they just want to be heard. And that is something that I make a conscious effort of with my children is if they have a voice, we must, must hear them clearly,” she shared.
In her latest film, ‘Crew’, Kareena Kapoor, along with Kriti Sanon and Tabu, is enjoying the positive response. Directed by Rajesh A. Krishnan, ‘Crew’ follows the stories of three women in the aviation sector.
In the next few months, Kareena Kapoor will star in Hansal Mehta’s ‘The Buckingham Murders’. She’s also set to appear in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham Again’.
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