RITA MARLEY KEEPS UP THE FIGHT IN AFRICA

Gotta love this woman......

July 7, 2006 — Bob Marley's powerful and passionate lyrics — "Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight" — still call many to action, most notably his widow, Rita Marley.

She heads The Bob Marley Foundation and The Rita Marley Foundation, and her fight is the eradication of poverty in Jamaica and Africa.

"We have been funding ourselves in whatever we have been doing, especially in Ghana and Ethiopia," Marley said. "We've been doing it out of our own pockets in terms of what Bob left us."

The greatest needs are "water, food, clothing, toothbrush to brush their teeth and someone to love them," she said.

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