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Georgie Badiel
Burkinabe model (born 1985) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Georgie Badiel Paulinha Borges (born February 7, 1985) is a Burkinabé model and activist living and working in New York City.[1] Badiel was Miss Burkina Faso in 2003 and Miss Africa 2004.
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Born February 7, 1985, she had taken on the issue of the lack of 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 2016.[3][4][5]
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