WARD COMMITTED TO BUILDING COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR MALAWI LOCALS

Last updated: Monday, October 22, 2007

WARD COMMITTED TO BUILDING COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR MALAWI LOCALS

Australian supermodel GEMMA WARD has pledged to raise $500,000 (GBP250,000) for a community centre to help poverty-stricken locals in Malawi.

Gemma Ward at amfAR Cinema Against AIDS held at Le Moulin de Mougins, Mougins, France - 23.05.07

The teenager recently returned from the African country after visiting Malawi with her father, a Perth doctor, and aid workers connected to charity The Hunger Project - and she immediately felt compelled to help the people she met.

She tells Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper, "One of the most touching experiences I had in Malawi was meeting a 17-year-old girl who lived with her 18-month-old son in a one by three-metre straw hut.

"She left her husband from her first arranged marriage because she did not want to be one of his many wives."

She adds, "Visiting Malawi was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life. The people of Malawi touched and moved me with their strength, grace and pride. I was moved by the gratitude they have even in the most dire of situations."

The centre Ward hopes to help build will provide locals with better hybrid grain so they can yield better crops.

Source: WENN

| Monday, October 22, 2007

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