MISS WORLD KENYA CECILIA MWANGI IS A MUMMY!

Former Miss World Kenya is now a mother. Cecilia Mwangi welcomed a bouncing baby girl on Wednesday (17 August) morning at 9:29 am at the Nairobi Hospital. The bundle of joy was named “baby Cherisé and weighed in at 3.1 Kgs,” Cecilia told Hot Secrets.

She continued: “I have to give a hands up to all our women who give birth normally. I went through it and it is not an easy task.” She added, “It is an experience and a half. This is one of the highlights of my life together with being a forme Miss Kenya and winning international awards for the fight against jiggers.”

Cecilia who is an Anti jigger campaign ambassador was visited by Dr Stanely Kamau, the campaign’s founder and fellow ambassador and former Miss World Kenya Natasha Metto.

Anti jigger campaign boss Stanley said, “We are happy that she has added a new member to the family and we will use Cherisé to further reach out to other children in the fight against the jigger menace.”

MISS WORLD BEAUTIES SHOP AT MAASAI MARKET

The reigning Miss World Kenya Natasha Metto accompanied the visiting Miss World Alexandria Mills and Miss Botswana Emma Wareus on a shopping spree at the popular Maasai market in Nairobi's central business district.



This was when the beauty queen was touring Kenya early this month. The trio shopped, bargained and haggled for the best prices for necklaces, earrings, bangles and animal carvings at the weekly market.



Photos/ Mbiyu Njoroge

REIGNING MISS WORLD TO VISIT KENYA IN JULY

Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills is set to visit Kenya for a four-day tour as part of her role as reigning beauty queen. She will be in the country on July 8 to present Miss World Kenya Natasha Metto with the Beauty with a Purpose Award and a cheque of $10,000 (Sh 800,000).
The Beauty with a Purpose recognises the Miss World contestant who is shown, through charitable works, to have made a real difference to people in need in her homeland.
An excited Natasha told Hot Secrets, “I’m really excited and humbled that Alexandria is coming. This is the firsts time a reigning Miss World is visiting the country and more so during my reign. It is history in the making.”



During her visit Alexandria will visit Gatanga where some of the jigger menace survivors live, this will help her learn more about the Anti Jigger campaign and it’s success stories. On July 9 she will travel to Mathera to see first hand how the residents are trained on living jigger free.
Ahadi Trust the NGO dealing with the campaign recently won three awards at the African International Achievers Awards, last month. They bagged the country special award, reducing child mortality award, sanitation and general health award. The awards was presented to the NGO’s CEO Stanley Kamau by Lord mayor of Bradford, Naveeda Ikram.



Stanley said, “After the campaign was recognized at the awards, Alexandria’s visit adds momentum to the continuity of our campaign. The media attention will also help us highlight the jigger menace and we hope that the government will take a front seat role in this fight. They should also embrace her visit as a chance to market Kenya as a top tourist destination.”
The anti jigger campaign ambassador and former beauty queen, Cecilia Mwangi added that she hopes the attention will “make the government take the jigger fight seriously and that they will set aside a day where the awareness for the campaign will be highlighted, or even an awareness week in schools.”