♥ Lily ♥
01-22-2017, 10:33 PM
Georgie Badiel (b. 1988 in Burkina Faso) is a Burkinabé model
and activist living and working in New York City.
Badiel was Miss Africa 2004.
She is also an author and activist
who has taken on the issue
of the lack of potable drinking water
in her West African homeland.
Therein she runs the Georgie Badiel Foundation
which is dedicated to raising funds to support the cause.
Now together with the children's book author,
Peter H. Reynolds and Susan Verde,
she has co-created the book The Water Princess,
a picture book which tells the story
of her West African nation's desperate need
for aquifers through her life as a young girl
who dreams of bringing clean water to her people.
The book was published by Penguin Random House in 2016.
Her foundation partners with Ryan's Well Foundation
to provide safe drinking water to communities in Africa.
At one time Badiel was romantically linked to the Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Badiel
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and activist living and working in New York City.
Badiel was Miss Africa 2004.
She is also an author and activist
who has taken on the issue
of the lack of potable drinking water
in her West African homeland.
Therein she runs the Georgie Badiel Foundation
which is dedicated to raising funds to support the cause.
Now together with the children's book author,
Peter H. Reynolds and Susan Verde,
she has co-created the book The Water Princess,
a picture book which tells the story
of her West African nation's desperate need
for aquifers through her life as a young girl
who dreams of bringing clean water to her people.
The book was published by Penguin Random House in 2016.
Her foundation partners with Ryan's Well Foundation
to provide safe drinking water to communities in Africa.
At one time Badiel was romantically linked to the Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Badiel
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