Legacy and Leadership: Visiting Third World Countries
Audrey Hepburn visited many third world countries in order to supply them with basic necessities for life such as food and water. "In these years she had visited 30 countries (including Ethiopia, Vietnam, Turkey, Guatemala, El Salvador, Thailand, and Bangladesh) and made more fundraising tours and given more interviews and press conferences than the UNICEF can count" (Watts) . Hepburn visited other countries to help with relief and hunger. The UNICEF record stated "Around Mekelle, in Tigray province, the activities Miss Hepburn visited included food distribution centre, and orphanage for 500 children and a food -for-work dam building project. From there she went to northern Shoa province where she saw other UNICEF-supported projects, including reforestation, terracing and sheep-breeding; carpet and clothing manufacturing which are being developed, using the wool from the sheep" (UNICEF).
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The newspaper article was written when Audrey Hepburn died in order to preserve her legacy. Even after being diagnosed with cancer, she continued to travel and advocate human rights. Audrey Hepburn spent more than five years working with UNICEF in order to end famine and disease. "As Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF she traveled extensively in Africa and Latin America. She visited Ethiopia during the drought to call attention to the plight of starving children. In 1991 she described her UNICEF role as "talking my head off," and said, "I just decided to do as much as possible in the time that I'm still up to it" (James 1993).