Shahrukh Khan at the 20th UNESCO Charity Gala

At this year's UNESCO Charity Gala, the Foundation of the UNESCO - is
organizing education for children in need, to meet again well-known
international personalities from politics, business and entertainment.
This time it is with the Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan, who will take
over the sponsorship of children in India.

Foundation for UNESCO - Education for Children in Need
The UNESCO Charity Gala 2011 is on 19 November at the Maritim Hotel
Düsseldorf. Among the other invited guests of the evening among others
include the former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev, the former
German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, super-model Naomi
Campbell, Hollywood stars like Jet Li, Vin Diesel, Kathleen Turner,
Olivier Martinez, the internationally successful singer Melanie C and
Gianna Nannini and many more.

The UNESCO works worldwide with its auxiliary projects against hunger
and poverty, child labor, child soldiers and to the education of
children. In India, currently running several projects in Gulbarga in
the Indian state of Karnataka as part of a UNESCO-aid project is
building a center that will enable street children and child workers
Gulbargas to participate in education and various workshops. This
center will also accommodate sleeping rooms, a large dining room,
study room and some offices.

Another project in India is to build a KNISTERschool Ottongkhua in the
state of Arunachal Pradesh. Here lives the tribe of the Lower Wanchos.
The school should offer their children a good education and give them
the chance to escape the vicious circle of hunger, poverty and
disease.

In Dharamasala supported by UNESCO, the orphanage "Tibetan Children's
Village", which is a loving home for the moment more than 1,900
orphans for over 40 years, who were forced from their homeland, the
Chinese occupied Tibet to escape.

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