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 On Friday the topic of star-studded V-Day luncheon was the organization's work with women in the Congo. However celebrities namely Kerry Washington, Jessica Alba and other supporters of V-Day, which has raised over 60 million dollars for eradicating violence against women and girls trough out the world, were also talking about Rihanna .
"When things happen publicly, it just makes it a more universal problem that more people can relate to," added Alba, an annual participant in the V-Day luncheon.
On Friday, Jessica Alba read a poem that was written after being inspired by the experience of a Congolese woman who was raped so severely and repeatedly by soldiers that she needed surgery. Kerry, who serves on the V-Day board, considered violence against women "a social illness that does not discriminate."
She continued, "This is a problem that spreads from the Congo to Hollywood," she said. "When it happens to someone famous, it's a tragedy that it happened, but what I hope is that people become less and less afraid to talk about how truly devastating this social illness is."
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler, who founded V-Day almost eleven year said, "I'm sadly here to say violence against women is a human thing." "It's epidemic everywhere."
Ensler continued that V-Day is joining forces with Mukwege's hospital and UNICEF to build a community for survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is also said that V-Day is making plans to hold 4,000 grass-roots events this year for the proper education and consciousness of the people regarding violence against women and the atrocities in the Congo, where girls as young as ten months and old women in their 80s have been victims of sexual violence and injury.
Beautiful actress Anne Hathaway also read a poem at the luncheon and Maria Shriver closed the program by urging guests to spread the word.
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