Supermodel Helena Christensen highlights Nepal villagers’ plight due to climate
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Author : Rajan Zed
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Hindus have applauded supermodel-actress Helena Christensen (Allegro) for highlighting the sufferings of the villagers of southern Nepal due to climate change. She reportedly recently spent three days with the villagers to have firsthand experience of affect on lifestyles due to climate change and took some pictures which reportedly will be shown at the United Nations Climate Change Conference being held from November 29 to December 10 in Cancun (Mexico). Commending Christensen, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Hollywood and other celebrities should not stay silent spectators to threatening ecological crisis faced by humanity and should take climate change seriously, reconnect to natural world and do something positive for environment. They should come out with their own unique environmental awareness campaigns as it was a "moral obligation". Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that human activities were causing change in earth's climate, accumulation of greenhouse gases, and composition of the atmosphere; especially affecting the poor and vulnerable. Christensen, 41, reportedly visited Nawalparasi district in Nepal and realized that flooding and unpredictable-erratic rainfall caused by climate change had affected the livelihood of villagers, caused death, and blocked access to healthcare.
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Rajan Zed is a religious statesman who has taken up Hindu, interfaith, religion, Roma and other causes all over the world.
He was invited by President of European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pottering, in December 2008 in Brussels (Belgium) for a meeting to promote interfaith dialogue. He has read opening prayers in United States Senate in Washington DC, various state senates and assemblies/houses-of- representatives, city councils, etc., across the country.
Zed is one of the panelists for “On Faith”, a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post. He has been bestowed with “World Interfaith Leader Award”, “Nevada Religious Unity Award”, “Positive Pluralism & Unity Prize”, & other awards for interfaith dialogue.
He is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, Senior Fellow and Religious Advisor to New York headquartered Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy, Director of Interfaith Relations of Nevada Clergy Association, Spiritual Advisor to National Association of Interchurch & Interfaith Families, etc.
Rajan Zed is on the Governing Board of Directors of Northern Nevada International Center, on the Board of Directors of Nevada World Trade Council, member Citizens Advisory Committee of Regional Transportation Commission, member Reno Police Chief Advisory Board, etc.
He possesses Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from University of Nevada-Reno and Master of Science in Mass Communications from San Jose State University, California.
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