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Scarlett Johansson

by Tyla from Boca Raton

Scarlett Johansson  (http://flypaper.bluefly.com/images/89230400.jpg)
Scarlett Johansson (http://flypaper.bluefly.com/images/89230400.jpg)

For most celebrities winning an award or being nominated for an Oscar is a huge deal. Most celebrities would show up and could never dream of missing it, but this celebrity showed her caring side in 2007 when she missed the Oscars to help people in India and Sri Lanka. Scarlett Johansson indeed skipped the Oscars on February 22, 2007 because she was on a trip to India and Sri Lanka, working with the International Relief Organization in their fight against poverty. Scarlett Johansson, a popular actress, also showed her caring side as she helped people in poverty and works with charity events to bring awareness to AIDS and the devastating outcome to Hurricane Katrina victims.

Scarlett Johansson (http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/g/grammy07/red_carpet_070211/scarlett_johansson.jpg)
Scarlett Johansson (http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/g/grammy07/red_carpet_070211/scarlett_johansson.jpg)

Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in New York City. She comes from a family of four. She has a twin brother (3 minutes younger than her) and an older sister and brother; her parents were divorced in 1998. After visiting India in 2005 Scarlett wanted to help people in hard situations like poverty. Scarlett has supported many charities working for a better world and bringing awareness to poverty and AIDS. She also became an ambassador of the Oxfam organization that works toward ending poverty.

Scarlett Johansson with kids in India (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1qCv1fwoHmM/ReRzRY5No_I/AAAAAAAADVM/pLs8HGiIT5s/s400/scarlett_johansson.jpg)
Scarlett Johansson with kids in India (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1qCv1fwoHmM/ReRzRY5No_I/AAAAAAAADVM/pLs8HGiIT5s/s400/scarlett_johansson.jpg)

Scarlett Johansson has gone to India and Sri Lanka with the Oxfam organization, trying to bring awareness and help people in poverty. On February 2007 she even missed the Oscars because she was on a ten-day trip to India and Sri Lanka. She visited people in India who live in poverty. She learned that basic health care and education could completely change their lives and help their poverty problem. In the last place, she visited survivors of domestic violence, who are part of the “We Can” campaign helping more than eight hundred thousand people to overcome domestic violence.

Scareltt Johansson in Rwanda (http://www.joinred.com/Libraries/Related%20Content_Thumbs/Scarlett-Johansson.sflb)
Scareltt Johansson in Rwanda (http://www.joinred.com/Libraries/Related%20Content_Thumbs/Scarlett-Johansson.sflb)

Scarlett has also been working with organizations to help raise money for women and children with AIDS in Africa. She has participated and worked with Product Red raising money for these women and children. She has also raised a great amount of awareness to this issue and has had many people donate money and time to helping these people. Scarlett has visited people in Africa to see what it is like and to show others how lucky we are and how they need help. This is one of Scarlett’s many goals to raise enough awareness to this issue.

Scarlett Johansson (http://charlespaolino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/scarlett-johansson-sm.jpg)
Scarlett Johansson (http://charlespaolino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/scarlett-johansson-sm.jpg)

Scarlett has worked with many charities and victims supporting their struggles in many countries including education, health care, and poverty. She has worked with moveon.org trying to bring awareness to education in other countries that have a poor education system. She has also helped victims of Hurricane Katrina. She started working with USA Harvest in New Orleans to help and feed the victims. That was when she discovered her passion to help people in poverty. Scarlett has also brought a huge awareness to poverty by helping people and skipping the Oscar’s and sharing her goal to lower poverty in foreign countries.

Showing her caring side, Scarlett Johansson has worked to help people in poverty. Her goal is to one day end poverty. These are all examples of she has helped poorer community’s. She has also brought much awareness to these issues and helped this countries a lot.

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Last edited 10/16/2010 12:00:00 AM

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