Adriana is currently working with Bill Clinton’s global initiative programme in Haiti. Adriana visited Haiti with the Clinton initiative, whose aim is to help support and develop the local Haitian economy.
In Haiti she met first hand with business leaders and saw the enormous social and economic problems facing them.
Adriana, who recently gave birth to her second child, was deeply touched by a programme to expand the maternity programme at the Catholic hospital of Port Au Prince – making it a place where mothers and infants with complications can receive the kind of medical attention that until now has been absent from this long-suffering country.
In the near future Adriana will use her supermodel status to promote a social media campaign on Facebook that is expected to raise enough money to cover construction costs of the new maternity ward.
Brazilian beauty Sonia Braga is a tireless advocate of childrens’ rights, especially their rights to a proper education. "Too often, we, in the first world, look at education as separate from basic necessities like having enough to eat and having a decent place to sleep".
She was a cofounder in 1997 of The national hispanic Foundation for the Arts (nhFA), along with Jimmy Smits, Merel Julia, Esai Morales and Washington, D.C. attorney Felix Sanchez.nhFA’s mission is to promote latinos both in front of and behind the camera.
nhFA provides industry workshops and a scholarship programme to graduate students seeking careers in the entertainment and telecommunications industries, at several prestigious American universities, including New York university, Columbia university, Harvard and Yale.
Summer Rayne Oakes has calibrated her career to perfectly combine her values with her work. A graduate of Cornell university with degrees in environmental Science and entomology, she is the author of a bestselling style guide, Style, naturally and co-founder of Source4Style, a B2B marketplace that connects designers directly to sustainable material suppliers around the globe.
She has developed environmentally favorable collections for various brands, including, MoDo eco eyewear, Aveeno, and Portico home.
Oakes is editor-at-large for Above Magazine and recently wrote and produced her first film – an environmental art short called extinction. A true ‘eco-optimist’, her environmental activism has been widely acknowledged and honored by Vanity Fair, CnBC, outside magazine and many others.
