Carey Mulligan Urges Fundraising for Children in International War Zones: These Tragedies ‘Aren’t Hypothetical’
variety.comCarey Mulligan highlighted the need to support children in war zones across the world at Variety’s Power of Women Presented by Lifteime event on Thursday.
Mulligan was honored for her work as a global ambassador for War Child UK, an organization focused on protecting children in conflict zones.
The “Promising Young Woman” actor first became involved after receiving an invitation from CEO Rob Williams to join them on a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014, telling Variety in her Power of Women cover story that she was inspired to join the group after witnessing the transformative work the organization was doing with children who’d experienced disastrous trauma.
Since joining, she’s also visited Iraq, Ukraine and Jordan. At the event, Mulligan illustrated the work of War Child UK and its American counterpart Children in Conflict by drawing a contrast between her worries as a parent and the worries of parents in the conflict zones she’s visited. “As a parent of three children, two of whom are in school, I think a lot about their mental health,” Mulligan said. “And I think about how I can protect them from anything that might tarnish their sunny childhood” — like her son seeing a violent video game, or her daughter catching an inappropriate TikTok clip. “Imagine then the worries of a mother in a conflict zone,” the actor continued. “Her worries might be something more like this: What if my child sees a family member shot?
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