Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Who needs Oprah?


Who needs Oprah? Everybody does, it seems, but the 150 young girls in South Africa are the happiest today!

Oprah Winfrey, the American tv-talkshow host and philantrophist has open her dream school for girls in South Africa.

The world needs more people of her character and caliber. As she said, it is not enough to sign a cheque for the charities. It is necessary to get involved in the lives of people being changed by the donations. "At a certain point, you want to feel that connection," she added. Oprah spent a cool 40 million dollars to build The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy.

I wish there are many people like her who go out of their way to contribute to education and poverty reduction. There are hundreds of the meanly rich Sudanese who did nothing. They just accumulate their wealth and does nothing to help their poor neighbours.

God bless you, Oprah.

2 comments:

Mimz said...

Lots of wealthy people are stashing up their piles of money not bothering to give away a fraction of it to the people who really need it.. that's what has become of the world.

But thank god for people like Oprah, who truly are rare gems. May god bless her soul.

hipster said...

This woman never ceases to amaze me!