Home Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw HD Photos and Wallpapers November 2022 Gugu Mbatha-Raw Instagram - ✨Lighting up London! ✨ So special to take part in this Crossroads conversation with the luminous @yomi.adegoke. Thank you @giorgioarmani for bringing this room of curious and powerful women together and giving me the opportunity to talk about my journey as an actor, character through clothes and my work with @refugees. 💙#giorgioarmanicrossroads @giorgioarmani @armanibeauty

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Instagram – ✨Lighting up London! ✨ So special to take part in this Crossroads conversation with the luminous @yomi.adegoke. Thank you @giorgioarmani for bringing this room of curious and powerful women together and giving me the opportunity to talk about my journey as an actor, character through clothes and my work with @refugees. 💙#giorgioarmanicrossroads @giorgioarmani @armanibeauty

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Instagram - ✨Lighting up London! ✨ So special to take part in this Crossroads conversation with the luminous @yomi.adegoke. Thank you @giorgioarmani for bringing this room of curious and powerful women together and giving me the opportunity to talk about my journey as an actor, character through clothes and my work with @refugees. 💙#giorgioarmanicrossroads @giorgioarmani @armanibeauty

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Instagram – ✨Lighting up London! ✨
So special to take part in this Crossroads conversation with the luminous @yomi.adegoke. Thank you @giorgioarmani for bringing this room of curious and powerful women together and giving me the opportunity to talk about my journey as an actor, character through clothes and my work with @refugees. 💙#giorgioarmanicrossroads @giorgioarmani @armanibeauty | Posted on 21/Oct/2022 22:00:56

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Instagram – I’ve just returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where I spent a week with @refugees. I wanted to take a moment to share my initial reflections and what I witnessed there.

Many of you have followed my journey with Françoise, a Congolese refugee and all-round shining light, who I first met in Uganda in 2019. It was an eye-opening and emotional experience to visit her home country.

DRC has the largest displacement crisis in Africa and has been the scene of one of the world’s longest running conflicts. It is one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world.

I saw the heartbreaking choices that mothers have to make on a daily basis. It was moving to see the stark reality of what lack funding for UNHCR’s life saving work means for people. It means lack of shelter or sufficient food, or things many of us take for granted like sanitary towels or being able to go to school. It means a survivor of gender-based violence might not get the help she needs and deserves. From medical attention, to the psycho-social support to heal from unimaginable trauma. It means that every day displaced people – and the UNHCR staff that work with them – are forced to make impossible choices.

I also saw joy, resilience, inspiring sisterhood and the potential for transformation that is possible with the right support. But that support is precarious and the needs are deep.

Nearly 1.3 million Congolese have been displaced within DRC this year alone, in a context of traumatising violence, especially towards women.

This year, the world proved that they can open their hearts to people who were forced to flee their homes. We must now extend the same kind of solidarity to the forcibly displaced people of DR Congo and all around the world. Even if they don’t make the headlines.

💙 Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Instagram – Reflecting on the soul filling adventure  with @gucci and @zeitzmocaa Museum of Contemporary African art in beautiful Cape Town. ✨

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“It’s always special to visit South Africa because my Dad was born here and I have family in Johannesburg. My uncle passed in 2020, and like many I attended his funeral on Zoom. So it was a really emotional moment to visit his grave and connect with my cousins.
Cape Town is a beautiful city, with a very complex history. The legacy of Apartheid is still very present in the landscape of the city. Nurturing art and culture is so important for healing these scars. I wanted to support Zeitz MOCAA as a space that can bring people together and especially the exhibition When We See Us, which celebrates the craft and legacy of painting by Black African artists.”

It was really special to have a private view with the inspirational @madamekoyo the curator and director of the museum and so great to discover the work of Zandile Tshabalala, a female painter from Soweto. It has also been fascinating to see some early Kehinde Wiley paintings. (The exhibition includes a piece from 2001 (16 years before he was chosen by Barack Obama to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian), that really charts the evolution of his style”

We make art because life is not enough ❤️

 #WhenWeSeeUs Cape Town, South Africa

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