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Toni Garrn Opens Up About Charity Work for Children's Basic Needs in Zimbabwe—Get the Scoop

 

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Toni Garrn is not only a supermodel, but an advocate for the rights of children around the world having been involved with Plan International since the age of 16.

 

Plan International is an organization that works closely with poverty-stricken communities within developing countries helping alleviate poverty for children and to develop solutions aiding in long-term sustainability. Toni first started her work with Plan when she was just a teen by sponsoring her first child (now she sponsors three). She is also an ambassador of Because I Am A Girl, a global initiative of Plan International hoping to give girls their basic human rights; food, clean water, education, and protection from violence and exploitation.

 

After spending two weeks in Zimbabwe with Plan International, Toni exclusively sat down with E! News to share her experience and her mission as a Because I Am A Girl ambassador.

 

"I was always very fascinated by how much can change as soon as you give a girl the right to go to school, as long as you can read, or if she has some sort of basic information, she knows she can stand up against her parents or question her tradition of, 'Why am I supposed to get married at 10 years old?' In Zimbabwe the number of girls who go to school there are actually quite high but the main issue I saw was transportation. Their schools are so far away, there aren't any school buses, and the schools are so far away that some just drop out because of that, they can't physically get there, they are 4-10 years old and can't walk that long. And there is also security issues on the way, a lot of them really do get raped on their way to school."

 

Toni continued, "I want to raise enough money to start a school bus business. This could also help women who don't have jobs because a lot of women, all they do is walk water from point a-to-b because distances are so far, the water fountains are so far, I did it myself, I had a water bucket on my head for over an hour because I went with a girl to see how she does it and I had the biggest migraine of my life afterwards and she was laughing at me, she's like 10, 'I do this 4 times a day, then I go to school, then I clean the house.'"

 

Toni shared that she's constantly coming up with new ideas on how to give back and to raise money but that coordinating and bringing people together can be difficult which is why she's partnered with BidKind, an online charity platform helping to bring likeminded people together.

 

"It can be quite a lot of work to get everyone together and organize things so it's really great that BidKind exists."

A few days ago in Mykonos, Toni BidKind hosted a dinner to raise awareness for BidKind and money for the girls in Zimbabwe, "So many of my friends, people who like to be involved in charity and who have the money, they're all in the Mediterranean in the summer.  I'm very much in love with Greece, I lived there for a year growing up. I wanted to make it very easy to get a lot of generous people together. School buses can be quite expensive, close to $80,000 dollars. My goal would be to raise enough for a few busses but if not we can always buy bikes."

 

Thankfully the dinner was successful in raising enough money for a few buses. Garrn was extremely happy and is excited to collaborate with BidKind in the future.

 

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thank you for the article she has such a kind heart 

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Models.com is revamping their ranking system (or maybe just the rankings...). Curious to see the result, although I don't have high hopes for Toni given how they have been treating her lately.

They treated her well. She was in the Money Girls and Icons rankings. All the works are added by her agency, not by models.com. The same when her name was deleting from her works. So I think that models.com treats her well but agencies need to put her works back.
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Models.com is revamping their ranking system (or maybe just the rankings...). Curious to see the result, although I don't have high hopes for Toni given how they have been treating her lately.

They treated her well. She was in the Money Girls and Icons rankings. All the works are added by her agency, not by models.com. The same when her name was deleting from her works. So I think that models.com treats her well but agencies need to put her works back.

 

How do you know? And why would they a) not care about a prestigious model they only recently signed and b) even delete her name from Vogue Korea for instance? Doesn't make any sense to me at all. I always thought it was mdc who takes care of the site, and I can't really imagine lots of agency people having access to its content. But then again, I have no idea and simply don't know how it works. But again, how do you know? Do you work in the business?

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Models.com is revamping their ranking system (or maybe just the rankings...). Curious to see the result, although I don't have high hopes for Toni given how they have been treating her lately.

They treated her well. She was in the Money Girls and Icons rankings. All the works are added by her agency, not by models.com. The same when her name was deleting from her works. So I think that models.com treats her well but agencies need to put her works back.

 

How do you know? And why would they a) not care about a prestigious model they only recently signed and b) even delete her name from Vogue Korea for instance? Doesn't make any sense to me at all. I always thought it was mdc who takes care of the site, and I can't really imagine lots of agency people having access to its content. But then again, I have no idea and simply don't know how it works. But again, how do you know? Do you work in the business?

 

Toni compared to many photo shoots and has a lot of campaigns, so I think she will stay in the rankings in the same place.
 
You look at the other ?! I'm not talking about Karlie that is higher rated and Jordan, Toni has an excellent track record and enough covers.
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Oh, thank you! That's very interesting, I had no idea. And thanks for asking what was going on!  :flower:

I understand they don't want certain things to appear on the page (PKZ, Peter Hahn for example), but why they deleted both the winter Aigner campaign and the Vogue Korea cover is beyond me. Well...I guess we will never find out. Thanks for your effort!

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What do you think Toni will participate in the fashion show this year?

Last shoot I think is not for Vs.

John Pfeiffer posted a picture with Toni so he likes her. She has big chances. One thing she needs to do is workout. Her body must be on point. Casting I think will be after last shows in Paris so we will be waiting. This year they need to have the best squad ever, girls like Edita, Isabeli, Toni, Maryna are perfect to do this.

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What do you think about Elie Saab ?

im starting to believe that the elie saab campaign this year was a kind of ghost or something .... it should be already out there but still nothing
Maybe they are waiting for something. I don't know. They hired Mario Sorrenti to work with and also a model who is an icon. They chose so beautiful places. Also I read somewhere that they rented a bridge in Chicago for a few hours. It must be out in some days. Also they were filming.
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