Georgie Badiel

Georgie Badiel (b. 1988 in Burkina Faso) is a Burkinabé model and activist living and working in New York City.[1]

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.[2] Now together with the children's book author, Peter H. Reynolds, she has co-created "Water Princess", a picture book which tells the story of her West African nation's desperate need for aquifers. The book is forthcoming from Putnam in the Spring of 2016.[3]

At one time Badiel was romantically linked to the Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://nymag.com/fashion/models/gbadiel/georgiebadiel/
  2. ↑ http://georgiebadielfoundation.org
  3. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/61048-the-water-princess-relates-childhood-of-burkina-faso-born-model-georgie-badiel.html
  4. ↑ http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/tag/georgie-badiel-miss-africa-2005/


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