Natalie Portman has teamed up with the queen of Jordan in an
anti-poverty drive. The actress, an Israeli native, and Queen Rania this month
launched a drive by the Foundation for International Community Assistance to raise $200 million in loans for entrepreneurs in the
developing world.
Portman, who appears on a MySpace clip
about FINCA, said online campaigning was key for the initiative to work. “I
have seen that ending poverty is possible – it is just a mouse click away,”
the Financial Times quoted her as saying. “People check their MySpace
pages 10 times a day, why not harness that tool to build support for microfinance?”
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