Sofia Carson Travels to Brazil with UNICEF!
Sofia Carson is giving back!
The 26-year-old actress recently traveled with UNICEF USA to Recife, Brazil to promote the rights and well-being of children.
During her visit, Sofia met with children and their families impacted by UNICEF’s important work in education, girls empowerment, and early childhood development.
Sofia also met with teens at COMPAZ, a community center in the heart of Recife, which aims to help keep kids and teens off the streets by providing them with a safe space for peace, inclusion, and education.
“It is my immense honor to be in Brazil with UNICEF to do all I can to contribute to their lifesaving work to end violence against women and children here in Recife,” Sofia said of the experience.
Sofia also had the chance to work with Empodera – Today Girls, Tomorrow Women, a program aimed at tackling issues like sexual violence against women, gender inequality, and early motherhood that decrease adolescent girls’ chances at finishing their education.
“Today, I bore witness to the lifesaving power of an education,” Sofia said. “I embraced, I held and I was forever changed by the young women whose lives have been saved thanks to UNICEF and their partners here in Brazil. They are the history making leaders who will fight until the equality of the sexes is an indisputable reality and violence against women and children is obliterated.”
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