Model and campaigner Christy Turlington Burns shares old school photo to support #UpForSchool
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Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns has become the latest celebrity to share their old school photo on Throwback Thursday to encourage people to support the #UpForSchool campaign.
Christy 鈥 pictured smiling at the age of eight 鈥 has a particular interest in ensuring the 31 million girls currently out of school around the world get an education. She is the founder of , a charity dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother.
On her Instagram posting, she wrote: 鈥淒id you know that educating girls for six years or more consistently improves their prenatal care, postnatal care and childbirth survival rates later in life?鈥
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Christy joins a host of people 鈥 celebrities, politicians and members of the public 鈥 who shared their old school photos to mark International Women鈥檚 Day, raise awareness of the millions of girls missing out on education and ask people to stand #UpForSchool. It is a youth-led campaign that demands world leaders keep their promise to get all children into school and learning.
They included Shakira, Heidi Klum, Priyank Chopra and Lang Lang. and read our .
And if you haven鈥檛 already signed the #UpForSchool Petition,
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