Ms.Dessia Braitwaithe

Coming from South Ruimveldt Park is Ms. Dessia Braithwaithe she describes herself as a young hip twenty four year old woman who is responsible, strong, educated, talented, beautiful and fun to be with. The eldest of three (3) siblings and since her mom passed away a few years ago, has been given the opportunity to experience the role of a mother in the life of my two sisters, however, Dessia’s dad who is the love of her life has always been there to love, care and support her in every way and that in itself has kept her strong.

At five feet, seven inches tall brown skinned in complexion Ms. Braithwaithe interests include singing, reading, modeling and most of all dancing. At the age of fourteen she began dancing and kept up this hobby of hers professionally but say at some part of her life, she also did a bit of acting. My first experience was two years ago to be the lead actress in Guyana’s first musical play at the National Cultural Center and was directed by Derick Moore. Since then she became quite bold and versed in acting and soon meet with several advertising agencies to fight against HIV in the form of advertisement. “The reason for such a choice is really because I love to help people and also I wanted to save more lives and it meant doing an advertisement would save an individual I would be happy to do so. But I still felt like I was missing something. There was this part of me that wanted to be a model and not just a model but the best I can be. As a child, I would always look at the models on television and in the magazines wishing that someday I would have the opportunity to walk down the runway looking all dressed up and feeling sexy and believe me  when the opportunity came I was ready to grab it with everything in me.”

Soon Dessia began modeling for designers such as Derick Moore, Micheal Cole, and Roger Garyand the list goes on. As a result of modeling for such designers she was featured on the television, in the newspapers, in the GEM magazine, extra news papers and even in the ‘Shabu’ Caribbean magazine but said she wants more and that is why she has decided to be a part of the Ms. Guyana World pageant. Obtaining her secondary education at Christ church Secondary after which she worked for four years, then decided that she wanted to make a contribution to my country and that is how she began studying social work.