Actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, 81, who has served as a goodwill ambassador for the UNICEF children's agency for the past 30 years, said Wednesday she dreams of a society where no child dies from starvation or poverty and will continue striving toward that goal.
As a goodwill ambassador, Kuroyanagi has visited more than 30 nations where severe poverty persists, including conflict zones such as Kosovo and Bosnia during the violence of the 1990s. What she learned about the plight of children there Kuroyanagi would later share with audiences in Japan.
Her message is to "care about what is happening to children all over the world.