Priyanka Chopra Jonas will host the Central Park event.
next month marking the 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival organized by the international nonprofit fighting extreme poverty.
"We are actually at one critical inflection point where COVID has pushed nearly 100 million people into extreme poverty and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made the situation so much worse," he said."As many as 323 million people are now facing acute hunger.
"If we are going to do something about that, then we need urgent mobilization," Chopra Jonas told The Associated Press."So just seeing all of these people from different stretches of society, different professions — regular folks coming together, motivated to actually make change now in an urgent way — is just so inspiring."
In addition to asking the United States to donate more toward fighting climate change, he also wants about $500 million in donations and grants for farmers in Africa so they can grow more crops, rather than depending on wheat and fertilizer from Ukraine and Russia, which have both in short supply due to the war.
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