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AP Interview: Priyanka Chopra urges more Syria refugee help

Priyanka Chopra, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, greets a Syrian woman and her baby at UNICEF's Makani Center in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Sep. 10, 2017. Chopra said the world needs to do more to help those displaced by war -- through individual donations if governments won't step up. The Bollywood veteran who is increasingly making her mark in the U.S. also tells The Associated Press in an interview that she didn't realize until working in America that it's "difficult for a woman of color" to be cast in a wide range of roles. (AP Photo/Lindsey Leger)
Priyanka Chopra, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, greets a Syrian woman and her baby at UNICEF's Makani Center in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Sep. 10, 2017. Chopra said the world needs to do more to help those displaced by war -- through individual donations if governments won't step up. The Bollywood veteran who is increasingly making her mark in the U.S. also tells The Associated Press in an interview that she didn't realize until working in America that it's "difficult for a woman of color" to be cast in a wide range of roles. (AP Photo/Lindsey Leger) Priyanka Chopra, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, greets a Syrian woman and her baby at UNICEF's Makani Center in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Sep. 10, 2017. Chopra said the world needs to do more to help those displaced by war -- through individual donations if governments won't step up. The Bollywood veteran who is increasingly making her mark in the U.S. also tells The Associated Press in an interview that she didn't realize until working in America that it's "difficult for a woman of color" to be cast in a wide range of roles. (AP Photo/Lindsey Leger)

By Associated Press 1 min read

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – Actress Priyanka Chopra says after meeting with Syrian refugees that the world must do more to help them, especially children displaced by war.

Chopra, a Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N. child agency UNICEF, told The Associated Press that individuals should step up if governments won’t.

She says that “the biggest and best way of doing that is just donations.” She says that otherwise, an entire generation of children “could turn to extremism because they have not gotten an education.”

Some 5 million Syrians have fled civil war since 2011. Aid agencies supporting refugees routinely face large funding gaps.

Chopra, a Bollywood veteran who stars in the U.S. TV series Quantico and the movie Baywatch, chatted and joked with refugee children Sunday at an after-school center in Jordan’s capital.