Iman today becomes the first global advocate of Care in the organization’s 75-year history. In the role, which was created for the supermodel, Iman will work to strengthen the organization’s ongoing mission since World War II of creating a world without poverty where all people live with dignity and security.
“All these years, I’ve helped organizations, but I’ve never committed to being an ambassador,” said Iman, who has supported women’s and girls’ rights and empowerment. “This found me at the right time in my life. Poverty is one of the things that move me. I understand it. I really identify with refugees. I became a refugee in 1972 when I walked from the border of Somalia to Kenya.”
Iman said she’ll never forget what workers for the NGO in Kenya did for her, calling them “the angels in our world who took care of refugees. I was 16 years old and separated from my family. I was an ambassador’s daughter, and I had never left home. They took me to the university and found me a job and a place to live. Imagine how my trajectory would have changed if I hadn’t had those angels,” said Iman, who was a student at
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