Superstar Rihanna is using her arsenal to accomplish
great things including helping Malawian school girls get to school with easy
transportation.
According
to Billboard,
the pop superstar’s Clara
Lionel Foundation
has teamed up with bike-sharing service Ofo to fund scholarships for girls in
Malawi through the foundation’s Global
Scholarship Program.
Along
with the scholarship, Ofo will also donate bikes to students who have
transportation issues to combat some of the regional transportation challenges
contributing to Malawi’s high drop-out rates.
In a
recently released video, Rihanna shared details of her trip and spoke about the
experience;
It’s
such a pity that they have to drop out because they are so smart, everybody’s
learning together and learning at the same pace, it seems. It’s sad that has to
end for some of them because they could probably do so much if they had the
resources to continue and complete.
This
partnership between Clara Lionel Foundation and Ofo has been titles 1 KM Action and is expected to run for five years.
It was announced yesterday on both company’s Instagram pages.
About this partnership, Rihanna said in a statement released today
I’m
so happy about the Clara Lionel Foundation’s new partnership with ofo because
it will help so many young people around the world receive a quality education,
and also help the young girls of Malawi get to school safely, cutting down
those very long walks they make to and from school all alone
Rihanna
has really been an advocate for global education, Last month the Wild Thoughts crooner sat
with French President Emmanuel Macron to
discuss ways to fund her global education initiative.
Watch
the footage from Rihanna’s Trip to Malawi for Education
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