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Imarah
Radix, Miss Guyana World 2009
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ARTICLE FROM KAIETEUR
NEWS 2009
By Mondale Smith
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Miss
Guyana World wings out to London on Nov. 3 November
1, 2009
"I
will do my best to make my family and country
proud"- Imarah Radix
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Amidst mixed reactions to Grenada-born
Imarah Kensha Radix being selected and recently crowned
as Miss Guyana World 2009 she says "My mum is Guyanese
and I am too, and I'm proud of my heritage; that's why
I'm representing 83,000 square miles of beautiful country."
Above the negativity, the 24-year-old is "incredibly
honoured and humbled" to be Guyana's beauty ambassador
on the world stage. She wings out on Tuesday (November
3) for London, England, where the 59th Miss World pageant
begins. Her next stop is South Africa for several engagements
and competitions before the final of the Miss World
pageant on December 12.
She says "I want to show that
Guyana is a serious contender on the world stage and
raise the standard for future contestants." "Ever since
I was a little girl I always played dress up and dreamt
of being a queen. Thanks to my grandmother and mother's
encouragement and inspiration I believe that all things
are possible." Never in her wildest imaginings did she
ever fathom that one day she would have the incredible
opportunity to represent Guyana internationally. Apart
from being among the more qualified local beauties that
entered online for the pageant, she has qualified as
the best candidate this year for her eloquence, knowledge
on world issues and her personality.
Imarah has dual citizenship (Grenada
and Guyana) and has been living here since 2000. She
was selected through the online process by franchise
holder Ken Chung and like the other past queens, "promises
to the best of her ability, to do her family proud and
represent Guyana as a cultural and tourism ambassador,
showcasing to the world all that Guyana has to offer
not only as an eco-tourism destination but as a country
rich in its own diverse heritage and culture." Explaining,
she listed that one of the main reasons that she chose
to take part in the Miss Guyana World online search
was because the motto of the Miss World Organization
is beauty with a purpose. "This really appealed to me
because it is a humanitarian pageant with a huge emphasis
on Charity work." She noted too that in Guyana, the
volume of pageants that people are subjected to on a
yearly basis has caused many to become jaded, hence
the undervaluing of the Miss World Pageant in the eyes
of society. As far as one can recall, no other Miss
Guyana World contestant has ever entered the Miss World
'Beauty with a Purpose' contest, which challenges the
contestants to take up charitable projects to make a
difference in their community or city, but Radix is
doing that this year.
These projects will be submitted
to the Miss World judges and seen by millions on satellite
television on the night of the Miss World Final. Imarah
has undertaken three charity projects all with funding
from Digicel and GT&T. Her first project was to feed
250 disadvantaged elderly people and children at the
Meten-Meer-Zorg mosque. This is an ongoing project that
she undertook annually since the passing of her grandmother
who taught her the importance and blessings gained from
charitable work, particularly for the less fortunate.
She also gave a motivational talk to the youth of Tiger
Bay through the Varqa Foundation at the School of the
Nations on the importance of education. Further she
has vowed to dedicate her time for her year's reign
to helping raise the standard of education by teaching
many of these young people. She is also scheduled to
feed the babies and toddlers of D'Urban Backlands where
she occasionally helps out.
Through the Kross Kolor family,
the beauty ambassador has perfected her singing talent
to compete in the talent section of the international
segment of the Miss World pageant. Her wardrobe will
include the creations of local designers Lou Ann Jackson,
Randy Madray, Rhonda Dunbar and Vashtie Harlequin. King's
Jewellery World has donated her a gift of gold and wood
to be auctioned at the first grand charity ball at the
Grosvenor Hotel in Park Lane, London, to raise money
for the variety international children's fund which
will go towards surgical, nutritional and educational
programmes in Haiti, Palau, the Philippines, India and
Ghana.
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