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Miss Commonwealth aims
to be a substantial contributor to global support for registered charities.
The pageant supports all charities, large and small.
Every year, Miss
Commonwealth crowns culture and charity queens whose community role includes
helping to raise money, locally, nationally and internationally, for
registered charities around the world.
With an ever increasing
army of culture and charity queens, the pageant promises to be a strong
charity fundraising force.
The queens managed to
raise a record sum in excess of £4Million in the 16months to December 2006.
In addition to its
general year-round fundraising for all charities, the pageant also
identifies one or more charities to raise money for, at its annual contests.
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Fundraising for
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Children's Charity
As a special perpetual
project, the pageant has set up the "Miss Commonwealth Finalist Contestants
Charity Fundraising Scheme" for raising money for the Great Ormond Street
Hospital Children's Charity. (GOSHCC).
Under this scheme, each
member of each year's class of finalist contestants for the annual Miss
CommonwealthInternational Contest will be requested to set up an individual
charity appeal on www.justgiving.com
to raise money for the GOSH Children's Charity. The highest fundraiser will be
crowned "Miss Commonwealth Charity" and all participants in the
project will be honoured and awarded a special Charity Appeals Certificate at
the year's CICCETSS event.
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Charity Appeals Awareness
Video-Shoot
Seven finalist contestants, representing
the pageant's three age groups (Teen, Miss, and Mrs) and four cultural sectors
(Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and The Caribbeans) were randomly
selected from the list of finalists in the Miss Commonwealth 2008 Contest
Finalists to take part in a video-shoot to help promote increased community
awareness of the finalists' charity appeals to raise money for the Great
Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK.
The video-shoot took place at the
InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, London,
on the evening of 20th September 2008. Thanks to the hotel's most supportive
and hospitable disposition, the video-shoot was hugely successful.
For more information about
the pageant's supported charities, click
Miss Commonwealth's Supported Charities.
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Queens' Charitable Activities
Graceful
Inner Beauty @ work
Dorota
Lopatynska-de-Slepwron - Poland Environmental Queen of Friends of the
Commonwealth 2008, and Mrs Commonwealth England Environment 2008:
Marta
Lopatynska-de-Slepwron - Poland Queen of Friends of the
Commonwealth 2008, and Miss Commonwealth England Environment 2008
Dorota
and daughter Marta both support many charities, among them, the GOSHCC
and the Cecil Hammond Animal Trust in Barking, Essex, England. While
fundraising for GOSHCC, here are they also donating bales of towel to the animal
charity. Both ladies want to use this site to raise awareness of the needs of
these and other charities.
 
Donations for Charity Auction
Dorota
made two new dresses and two beautiful inspiring paintings to donate to the
charity auction at the CICCETSS 2008 on 28th September 2008. These are highly
valued and certain to attract high offers from punters when they go under the
auction hammer.
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Queens' Support for
The Commonwealth Fair 2008
For the details, click here
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Queens' Support for
Community Projects in Africa
Miss
Commonwealth Nigeria Sport - Amaka Oguchi
Promotes sport and charitableness in Nigeria
Life sometimes throw us its challenges and when they
come, it is our duty to try and wade through the water ensuring that we get to
the shore. In this interview with BUKOLA BAKARE, Miss Commonwealth Nigeria;
Amaka Oguchi recalls how she had to defer school for a year, the agony of
growing up without her mother, preparations for the forthcoming Miss
Commonwealth Pageant in September as well as the numerous challenges that lie
ahead. Excerpts:
Born in the town of Kaduna, when Amaka Oguchi became Miss Commonwealth Nigeria,
little did she know that there was so much in store for her as it was the dawn
of a new horizon. When she was selected as Nigeria's representative, she went
back to her school, Igbinedion University, Okada, Benin, where she's studying
Microbiology and had a talk with her lecturers. “I told them I had just won a
contest and had to defer school for a year!”, she said.
Deferring school was perhaps one of the toughest decisions she had to make but
her dad was very understanding and supportive. “I lost my mum at the age of nine
and it was really traumatic for me but my aunt who's like my foster mother has
also been very supportive”.
Miss Commonwealth Pageant is one that is hosted in all the fifty three countries
that make up the Commonwealth of Nations and each representative will have a
chance to promote culture, tourism as well as engage in various works of
charity. Nigeria is one of the members of the Commonwealth and it is a voluntary
organisation that has as its guiding principle that all members are equal.
Members are bound by a shared language and history. In other words, it's not a
commercial venture but more of a charity-oriented thing. The last one was held
in the year 2001, and Amaka alongside beauties from the remaining fifty-two
countries will vie for the coveted crown in September this year.
Selection for Miss Commonwealth Nigeria was different in terms of participation.
Participants didn't have to walk on the runway as entry was done online and the
organisers were more concerned with the intellectual capability of each
contestant, with a view to harnessing their innate talents.
A native of Anambra State, Amaka has four male siblings and her father is a
Pharmacist.
“I went to Kadga Primary School in Kaduna but because of the Kaduna Riot of
1991/92, my family had to move to Lagos. Thereafter, I went to Federal
Government College, Enugu and now Igbinedion University, Okada, where I'm
studying Microbiology.”
Amaka is quick to add that there has been no major challenge as she's been able
to adjust to her new lifestyle free of stress and hassles that come with it.
However, growing up was laced with good and bad memories: “There were good times
as well as sad ones for me. I remember vividly going out with my brothers and
since I'm the only girl, it was always a trip to look forward to. I would also
spend holidays with my cousins as well as my friends. My low point was when I
lost my mother at the tender age of nine. That was really painful for me to put
it mildly, it was really sad and I tell you, you don't want to know that
feeling. It's tough growing up without your mother”.
In spite of the enormous responsibilities that come with being Miss Commonwealth
Nigeria, the queen still finds time to unwind and relax. She said “Being with my
friends suits me just fine and I also find time to play volleyball too. The last
movie that I watched was 'Yes man' and it was very entertaining as well as
informative. I see myself as a fun loving and easy going person and I think I'm
very hardworking as it pays to work hard.”
While Amaka commends the high fashion sense of Nigerians, she feels that they
can really compete anywhere in the world. Sadly, in her opinion, the industry as
a whole is still crawling. “There's a lot of politics going on and people are no
longer following the trend, models these days are not doing the right thing and
they are falling short of standard. Some don't even have a Manager which makes
the job more difficult. Fashion sense is very high but the industry still has
that constraint of showcasing brands and products. That's why most Nigerian
models are moving to South Africa and France as well as other places where the
market is really viable and booming. Style means being comfortable in whatever
you wear and it's just a way of expressing yourself. To this end, I love short
dresses as well as corporate clothings too, I must confess that I'm not really
particular about brands though”.
Everyone has someone or a group of persons that they look up to as role models
and Amaka is certainly not left out of the pack as she admires the immediate
past Director General of the National Food, Drugs Administrative and Control and
incumbent Minister of Information, Professor Dora Akunyuli.
“I love her for her courage as well as her personality. However, my number one
role model remains my father because he has taught me a lot of things which has
stood me in good stead. I'm very proud of him.”
She quickly adds that she is truly African hence she relishes African dishes
particularly banga soup, not forgetting rice and plantain too.
Change is surely inevitable but the volleyball enthusiast doesn't see that
coming her way so soon as she's emphatic that she wouldn't want to change
anything about her for now. “I know that I'm not perfect as no human being is,
but I think I like myself the way I am.”
To every Nigerian youth out there, Amaka's message is clear: “First of all, they
should believe in themselves, make sure that they've got values and goals and
they should strive to really work hard. Things may be difficult but every
journey starts with a step.”
She urged them to gradually avail themselves the opportunity to grow and be open
to the things around them. She said they need to “Work hard and with time,
you'll achieve success.” This position stems from her philosophy and guiding
principle that says it pays to work hard.
“My fear is not being able to give back to the society, so I intend to work hard
at it.”.
In the not-too-distant-future, Miss Commonwealth Nigeria intends to dabble into
Cosmetology. She recognises the fact that she has to undergo some form of
training to do so. “I would also like to own a youth empowerment center where we
would have various youth developmental programmes geared towards proffering
solutions to their numerous problems.”
Bearing in mind that representing Nigeria at the
prestigious competition is a Herculean task with her image and that of the
country at stake, Amaka is poised to make Nigeria take her pride of place among
the league of nations.
She said, “I've come to understand that the pageant is not for a commercial
purpose. What they look out for is how well you can make an impact in your
society. I've gone a step further by acquainting myself with happenings in
Commonwealth countries because at the end of the day, you have to go out there
and represent Nigeria. I'm grooming myself ahead of the big day”.
She's also working on her project which is tied to sports. “We've donated some
sports equipments to some public schools within the Lagos area; precisely Akoka.
Later this year, we intend to host a sports tournament among selected schools.
It's definitely a big project and I'm mindful of the challenges that come with
it. The cost implication is on the high side but we intend to take our proposal
to companies and transparency groups to ask them for their support as well as
intimate them with what we want to do, thus selling our ideas to them.
Hopefully, they'd be able to help us morally, financially and help us by way of
material needs”. Amaka likes people who are humble and Godly but abhors rude
ones.When asked if she has a man in her life, she quickly interjects by saying
“I knew you would ask that question and I think I should really expatiate on
that. “In the first place, I don't have a boyfriend but at the end of the day,
it's not as if you are forced not to have one, it's just to avoid scandal,
unwanted pregnancy and the likes. You know you have to uphold your morals as
people tend to believe that you could be loose but I think it's dependent on the
individual. You should know what to avoid in order to uphold your virtues.
Modesty should therefore be our watchword”.
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