1. Mia Farrow
Four years ago, worldwide famous actress and one of the 10 celebrities who are active in disaster relief and humanitarian work, Mia Farrow, received the Inspiration Award by the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists for her humanitarian work throughout the years. This is not the only recognition she has received for humanitarian efforts; she has been also honored with the Presidential Medal of Honor, McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award, one for her efforts in the Central African Republic (2007), and the other given by Refugees International for helping refugees. But to know that Mia Farrow is a true humanitarian all you need to know is that she has adopted 11 children, and has 4 biological? Yes, you read that right, Mia Farrow is a proud mother of 15. Children she adopted come from various developing and/or war-torn countries. It seems that she doesn’t know how to turn a blind eye to the others in serious need. She has been a true and powerful voice for all those children in Angola, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Sudan, Uganda, Cameroon, and Chad. And now, her latest efforts are all turned to the crisis in Darfur. This inspirational woman was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador back in 2000, which means that her humanitarian work is going on for much more than a decade. Let’s hear what she has to say: “In today’s world, there is no acceptable reason for children to starve, to have no education, to have to drink dirty water, to die of HIV/AIDS or be sentenced to a life of pain and disabilities because they did not have the same polio vaccine that has been available to us in the developed world for half a century”. What else can we say than it is a true gift to the world, that this kind of woman has raised 15 children and taught them all her life philosophy.
