The Miss Sierra Leone USA Women’s Leadership and Scholarship Pageant 2012 (a production of the nonprofit MSLDC Inc.) is honored to announce that Victoria Secrets Supermodel, Selita Ebanks, is the Pageant’s Grand Chief Patron on July 1, 2012 at the Montgomery College Performing Arts Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. As a committed champion of safe motherhood and dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable girls and women worldwide, Selita is no stranger to global health causes. Selita is currently the Goodwill Ambassador for the maternal health program of Wellbody Alliance, which is also supported by the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Madam Sia Nyama Koroma.
One of MSLDC’s main goals is to raise awareness and strengthen capacity for the improvement of maternal child health in Sierra Leone. As such, we are delighted to partner this year with several organizations and initiatives in a three-day awareness and fundraising campaign from June 29 to July 1 to mark current advances in maternal child health in Sierra Leone and maximize investments to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in this area,” said Fuambai Ahmadu, Ph.D, a medical anthropologist specializing in maternal health and child development in Sierra Leone and founder of MSLDC Inc.
Since 2006, the MSLUSA Pageant has provided thousands of dollars in cash scholarships to winners as well as opportunities for contestants to develop critical self-esteem, confidence, public speaking, community service, and leadership skills. Previous winners and contestants have gone on to found their own nonprofits and charitable organizations (such as Sisters Supporting Sisters www.misssierraleone.com; Children’s Empowerment Foundation www.childrenef.org; and Yehri Wi Cry www.yehriwicry.org), assisting in poverty alleviation as well as the development of initiatives in health and education in Sierra Leone, especially with respect to the girl-child.
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