A model wearing pieces from Yuri’s new fashion line I believed there was a better way and I wanted to use my experience to help find it. I had no idea how, so I quit my job, put my things into storage and set out on a journey, spending six months in Africa and India. I didn t know how, but I knew I had to do something that helped people who weren t me.
It was around this time that she fell for Northern Ireland-born Thomas Keown, whom she met at a friend s wedding in Brooklyn.
When she was looking for an organisation to volunteer with, someone suggested she contact Thomas, the co-founder of the Many Hopes organisation, a non-profit based in Manhattan and London which aims to rescue children from poverty and abuse and equip them with the tools to tackle injustice.