Oprah Winfrey opens school for poor girls in South Africa

TV host Oprah Winfrey has opened a new school in South Africa to give an education to girls from poor families. The school, on a 50–acre campus in the small town of Henley–on–Klip, south of Johannesburg, cost US$40 million to build. Winfrey interviewed many of the 3,500 South African girls from low–income families who applied for an initial 150 places at the school. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy will eventually cater to 450 girls who show outstanding promise but whose families cannot support their education. Read more at the BBC News website.