Miss World 2019: Nepal's Anushka Shrestha wins 'Beauty with a Purpose' title
Anushka Shrestha from Nepal won the 'Beauty with a Purpose' title. For the last 48 years, 'Beauty with a Purpose' has been sitiing firmly at the very heart of Miss World. 'Beauty with a Purpose' projects aim to help and change the lives of disadvantaged communities around the world. This project hopes to allow women who participate to take their humanitarian beliefs one step ahead along with the support of other organizations.
This project is set up in more than 140 countries and every year contestants are asked to take part in these projects and help make the world a better place. The platform allows these talented women use their skills and voice to bring about real change in the world.
Every contestant is given the task of putting forward their project and at the end, the judges decide which project should be given help from other organizations. The 'Beauty with a Purpose' charity gala dinner was attended by distinguished guests including the Baroness Benjamin OBE, Marsha Rae Ratcliff OBE, and John Ratcliff CBE.
Finalists included beauty queens from Magnolia, Malaysia, Tunisia, Venezuela, India, France, Nigeria, Nepal, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Towards the end of the competition, Nepal's Anushka Shrestha was announced as the rightful winner.
Shrestha has been an advocate of educating girls and her project was also focused on the same. "My BWAP project, I have chosen this multifaceted community upliftment program that aims to create a sustainable and duplicable development model," she said. "This project aims to work towards creating a visible and sustainable improvement in the quality of education of girl child, by mainly focusing on economic upliftment of mothers through livelihood generation."
'Beauty with a Purpose' was started by Julia Morley, the chair and CEO of the Miss World Organisation, and ever since its inception women have been working with her to bring a change in society.
