Actress launches art exhibition
Published on: 11-Dec-2007
Ex-Eastenders actress Michelle Collins today launched a charity art exhibition which brings to prominence the plight of the 3.8 million children who live in poverty in the UK.The star gave her support to the Barnardo's exhibition, Seeing is Believing - Poverty In The UK, which highlights what poverty actually means in one of the world's wealthiest countries.
Novelist Josephine Cox, who grew up in poverty herself, joined Collins for the launch.
Collins, a celebrity ambassador for Barnardo's, told social housing and public sector information website, 24dash.com: "It is awful to think that in this day and age, in a country with such huge wealth, that helpless children are suffering as a result of poverty.
"We cannot let it continue and that is why I am not only putting my full support behind this exhibition, but Barnardo's whole campaign to end child poverty."
The exhibition at the Bargehouse, South Bank, involves children and parents from 12 projects run by Barnardo's to help support very low-income families.
Barnardo's no longer runs orphanages but its work to help poor and disadvantaged children goes on.
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