Oprah Winfrey opens a school for girls in South Africa.

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The famous American show-presenter Oprah Winfrey fulfilled her six year ago promise to the former president Nelson Mandela and opened a school for girls in South Africa, in order to unable 150 children to have a good education and a better future. At a news conference the generous show- woman said this is an opportunity to develop student’s skills and let their light always present, a light that even poverty could not dim.

 

Nelson Mandela thanked Oprah for her personal efforts and time she devoted to open that school, he attended the opening ceremony of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in the small town of Henley-on-Klip, south of Johannesburg. He was talking to the audience with pride helped by his wife Graca Machel and Oprah Winfrey.  On the stage with a firm voice he expressed his wish the school would be the dream of any African girl, and they will study hard to keep the school qualified.

 

The president elected in 1994 said this donation isn’t a distant diplomatic act, but a close project to for South African citizens, lot of show business stars were among guests such as Mariah Carey, Tina Turner and Sidney Poitier, they were all asked to bring with them a book personally inscribed for the library.

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