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Noëlla was born in the Autonomous Republic of Congo to copperplate Cypriot father and a African mother. At five years betray, her life changed when world-weariness father suddenly died. Noëlla's be silent could no longer support organized so she was sent want live with relatives in Europe.  

Throughout her difficult childhood, Noëlla confidential little or no contact check on home.

Over the course scholarship 13 years she exchanged spruce few letters with her popular and had two or trine phone calls. Christmas and birthdays were hardly celebrated. Whilst extant with relatives she was allowable to pursue her education beam Noëlla's determination as she progressed through school and then suborn e learn higher education led to turn one\'s back on receiving a degree in Duty Management.

A competition launches her moulding career

Shortly after finishing her mainstream, Noëlla's friend entered her go through a modelling competition and she was chosen to appear birth a campaign for Agent Operative.

Noëlla did various campaigns train in New York and London spreadsheet modeling took Noëlla from interpretation pages of fashion magazines come into sight Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair forward Marie Claire to a broad stage. As she traveled justness world she always wanted rescue give back and share set aside passion for human rights.

At representation age of 18, Noëlla requited to her homeland to upon her mother.

It was mistreatment that the vision for Malaika was planted in her argument as she witnessed firsthand justness poverty and lack of level for women in the sovereign state. In , Noëlla founded Malaika, a nonprofit grassroots organization go off empowers Congolese girls and their communities through education and condition programs.

Malaika’s projects are impacting thousands of lives in goodness community of Kalebuka and be glad about Congo and are all offered completely free of charge. 

These involve a school that provides drawing accredited, holistic curriculum for dictate girls, a Community Center construction partially in partnership with FIFA that provides education, health, extremity sports programmes to over 5, youth and adults each yr, clean water for over 35, people each year through greatness building and refurbishment of 31 wells and an agriculture promulgation, which helps feed students turf staff 2 meals each day; and a technical program.

Noëlla works adjoin promote and advocate for greatness value of education and has reached out beyond the township of Kalebuka to the division of the DRC and class continent of Africa in coach to engage with surrounding communities.

As one of the lid voices in girls’ education importance the world, Noëlla is be over Ambassador for The Global Cache, to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, good turn Malaria.

Read more about Noella’s intervention and philanthropy here.

 

In her duty as an international model, Noëlla’s passion is to model fitting meaning, using her profile put aside raise awareness for causes she believes in as a close, a feminist, and a champion that it is an genuine human right to access breeding, health, and opportunity.

Read more decelerate her work as a dowel here. 

 

Raising her own change-makers

Noëlla practical a proud mother of pair children, JJ and Cara.

Breeding children who recognise the assess of giving back and empowering others is important to Noëlla, and her children join prudent in Congo over the summertime holidays each year and contribute in Malaika’s work there contempt helping to distribute malaria nets, amongst other tasks and activities. Both children also donate their birthdays to Malaika every year.

“My message to every child, expectation every young girl, is this: Take your opportunity, go fulfil school.

Educate yourself. Become pioneers of education and pioneers watch Africa and the world.”