Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.
Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
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2014-04-03
Posted in Profiles & Bios
Hope for Hearts invests in a life of girls. The organization is dedicated to funding St. Elizabeth Girl’s Academy (SEGA) in Uganda, East Africa.
The academy is an orphanage and school that rescues street children from birth to 21 years. On average, 200 girls a year receive a hand-up, not a handout.
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2013-06-30
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Born in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Netherlands, during the Second World War.
She studied ballet in Arnhem and then moved to London in 1948, where she continued to train in ballet and worked as a photographer's model.
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2013-05-04
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the 24th and current President of Liberia, and 2011 Nobel Peace prize laureate.
She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions.
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2012-11-01
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