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Rihanna says “We must fight for the quarter of a billion young people still denied an education”

Getty Images via ABCOne week after raising nearly $6 million for her Clara Lionel Foundation, which assists young people around the world, Rihanna is expressing her commitment to global education.

“We must fight for the quarter of a billion young people still denied an education by conflict, poverty, sexism and bad policy,” she writes in an op-ed piece for The Guardian.

“Education can be stolen from you in a second,” the singer from Barbados continues. “As we’ve seen recently on an unprecedented scale, the Caribbean gets hit by natural disasters that wipe out schools, leaving thousands of children stranded.”

But the singer and actress is determined

 

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