Q&A With Georgie Badiel-Liberty: Clean Water in Burkina Faso
May 26, 2021Spotted
NEW YORK, New York — During her career as an international supermodel, Georgie Badiel-Liberty has walked the runways for Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and other top fashion designers. However, a walk from her childhood in Burkina Faso is what she remembers most. When Georgie Badiel-Liberty grew up in Burkina Faso, she walked with her grandmother for hours to fetch water for the family. Georgie Badiel-Liberty won the Miss Africa beauty pageant in 2004. Now, she uses her modeling fame so that other women and girls in her home country do not face the same struggles for clean water. In 2015, she founded the Georgie Badiel Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit that has built and restored wells throughout the country. Through its work, it has provided water to more than 300,000 people. The Borgen Project spoke with the 32-year-old model and humanitarian about her background, the importance of clean water and what inspires her.