Mia Farrow raises awareness about Sudan

Actress Mia Farrow has become a career celebrity diplomat. She traveled to refugee camps in Sudan more than a dozen times and told VOA in 2007 the situation there was desperate.

"I think they're cauldrons of misery, frustration, rage, rampant disease," she said.

Farrow successfully lobbied film director Stephen Spielberg to quit the job of artistic director at the Beijing Olympics. She claimed China was funding Sudan's civil war in exchange for oil.

"I think when the celebrities become engaged in areas of great need, it has one great advantage. It does put that need and those people on the agenda of international concern," she said. "It raises awareness. That is good."

Almost a quarter of a century after the song 'We Are The World,'many celebrities are still working to help the needy...in a world where the U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF says poverty still causes the deaths of up to 30,000 children each day.