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Georgie Badiel
Burkinabe model
Georgie Badiel | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 7, |
| Citizenship | Burkinabe |
| Occupation | Model |
Georgie Badiel Paulinha Borges (born February 7, ) is a Burkinabé model and activist living and working in New York City.[1] Badiel was Miss Burkina Faso in and Miss Africa
Biography
She is also a writer 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 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 [3][4][5]
Personal life
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