Pauline Long - Continued
Through her pageants she has opened doors and empowered several young East Africans living in the UK who want to pursue acting, presenting, singing or modelling as a career by putting them in touch with influential contacts and presenting them with international opportunities.
However most importantly Pauline Long believes that philanthropy is not only for the super rich but everyone who has love and passion to share with the less fortunate and she specifically commends all the young East Africans and Africans giving back and working towards a better Africa. Her dream is to one day see an end to extreme child poverty in Africa and for Africa to turn their countries into children’s welfare states. She hopes this dream will be realised through her campaign The SHOUT Campaign (www.shoutcampaign.com). The SHOUT Campaign is a programme that is helping to feed street children throughout Africa with an aim of taking children of rehabilitating the children. The campaign initiated FEED THE STREET CHILDREN PROJECT in Nairobi, Kenya where 600 children were fed from 13th -17th October 2008. Through feeding the street children of Nairobi the team at Mr and Miss East Africa UK hopes to create the awareness of the plight of the forgotten Kenyan children and to inspire Kenyans to give back to their communities. The beauty pageant hopes to work closely with African governments with Kenya as the starting point to introduce a system for children’s welfare. Through SHOUT Campaign Pauline Long and his dedicated team of volunteers from Mr and Miss East Africa UK beauty pageant dedicated the valentines week to street children of Kampala, Uganda feeding just over 1400 children for five days between 9th-13th February 2009.
She is however on the search for lasting solutions to the pervading child and youth poverty all over Africa hence the establishment of the biggest all African reality TV talent show set to take place in Kenya, Africa’s World Best (AWB) – www.africasworldbest.tv . Africa’s World Best reality TV talent show’s main mission is to develop Africa, empower and reward African through talent. Building educational facilities, recreational facilities to help develop and nurture their talent, employment of youth through the new projects and establishments of community hospitals are some of immediate goals AWB has set to achieve. With her team they have created a non-profit entrepreneurial foundation called AWB Together.
Through AWB Together Pauline Long and her team will put back 40% of the profit from Africa’s World Best (AWB) reality TV talent show to Africa yearly in order to assist young Africans to set up businesses and sustainable projects. AWB Together will begin this process with Kenyan youth and gradually spread to the rest of Africa. The main reason for this large input is to empower the people of Africa with all the essential tools and give back to the communities what belongs to them.
- Sustainable youth projects in Africa that will help them start their own businesses
- Funding existing Youth and community projects
- Building children drop in centres that will take children off the streets
- Establishing clean sanitation in deprived areas
- Funding farmers and farming projects
- Building the first exclusive performing arts centre in various parts of Africa to serve different kinds of talents that can be turned into careers hence creating jobs for masses of unemployed youth in Africa