Nigeria: Naija Stars Lead the Future Awards Africa Campaign Against Ebola

16 November 2014

AHEAD of this year's The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), which holds on Sunday, December 7, 2014, at the Intercontinental Hotels, Lagos, organizers have announced the leading influencers for its global campaign to pool 1 million young Africans to act against Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The #StopEbola campaign will be led by TFAA Young Person of the Year 2013, Ashish Thakkar and Africa's leading creative icons - Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Paris-based Asa Elemide. The initiative will get young Africans to support the World Health Organisation by donating social media updates and a minimum of $25 between now and the awards date via the portal www.stopebola.com. The funds go directly to the United Nations Ebola Response Fund. "Ebola has been defeated in Nigeria," said Nnaji, who has actively supported causes including the Pink Ball against cancer. "This shows that with the will and resources it can be defeated anywhere else. We need to get involved beyond talk and beyond sympathy. As long as it remains anywhere in Africa, we are all at risk, and we can come together to stop this from happening. Join me, and join all of us now on www.stopebola.com." To Omotola, who has been spokesperson for Amnesty International and the United Nations "this goes to the core of what is important to me, and what should be important to all of us who are very concerned about our continent.

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