Basketball star Pau Gasol supports education for all in Africa

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Pau Gasol, UNICEF Ambassador

UNICEF Ambassador Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in the United States launched a project in 2010 to support Schools for Africa.

Schools for Africa is an initiative of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Hamburg Society to promote education for all.

 The campaign focuses on vulnerable children, girls, orphans and children living in extreme poverty.

 Kathryn Herzog spoke to Pau Gasol who recently visited some of the most impoverished communities in Angola, Ethiopia and the Republic of South Africa.

Duration: 4'46"

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