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Scarlett Johansson Learns Investment in Education and Healthcare

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has given the glitz and glamour of the Oscars- 2007 a miss for a chance to meet India's poor. The Lost In Translation star, who is on a 10-day visit to India and Sri Lanka with Oxfam, is busy learning first-hand how investments in education and basic healthcare are vital to save lives.

She began her trip by spending a day with young girls at a school in Uttar Pradesh set up to educate Dalit children. And it was a meeting with one little girl, Gudiya, that had a profound effect on her.

"She was an amazing, bright young girl, full of ambition and attending the fifth grade." When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said a government official. Every morning she rises at 3 am to study and then completes the household chores before walking for half an hour to school.

"I asked her how she felt she would be able to raise her family and also hold a government position. She responded confidently, 'I can manage'. Her self-pride and desire to succeed was an obvious outcome of her schooling," said Johannson. The 22-year-old actress also travelled to Delhi to meet survivors of domestic violence.

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