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Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Artist Ambassador Julianne Moore’s leadership of Save the Children’s annual Valentine’s Day card program has drawn many supporters to help American children in need. Following her January 2008 visit to a Save the Children program in Kentucky, Moore has taken an active role in ensuring that rural school children have strong reading skills, the first step to success in school and in their futures. Moore also appeared with U.S. Programs Senior Vice President Mark Shriver in Washington, DC to deliver lessons learned from Save the Children’s 2009 Disaster Decade Report, and urged states to take measures that ensure children’s wellbeing in emergency situations. In Spring 2011, the cosmetics brand retailer, Kiehl’s named Moore a philanthropic Global Ambassador, a platform she will use to further her work with Save the Children.

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  • February 2, 2012

    Make It Fair for All Kids

    I grew up traveling all over the United States, Central America, and Europe. My father was in the U.S. Army, so we never stayed any place for very long. For the most part, I didn’t mind it -- changing environments and schools was simply a fact of life for us.

    I learned not to depend on environment for consistency. Instead, I found it in my family, in my interests, and most of all in literature, my most constant of companions.

    The one place I absolutely did not rely on consistency was in my public school education. It was evident to me very early on that my educational experience in the U.S. was directly related to the tax bracket of the county in which we were living. I was growing up in a culture and an educational system that preached fairness and equal opportunity and yet my personal experience within it was wildly erratic.

    And so what if I was in a bad school for a year or two – I’d move. But what about the kids that were stuck there? They’d never even know that the education they were receiving was not equal to the one that more affluent children were receiving. And the thought that I was left with was that it was NOT FAIR.

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