Sioux Falls, January 09, 2017 (GSN) An international beauty pageant contender was in Sioux Falls on Saturday to raise money for her war-torn homeland.
Akuany Ayuen Jongkuch competed last month in the Miss World pageant in Washington D.C., representing South Sudan. She works for Power to Save Humanity, which provides education, food, shelter and counseling to the African nation’s residents.
She said she will use the visit as a chance to discuss the organization. Ayuen Jongkuch also plans to talk her pageant platform, which was education.
“I believe education is what will save us from everything that’s going on in my country,” Ayuen Jongkuch said. “Without education you cannot really know how to relate to others.”
The pageant queen and model was in town to promote her charity P.U.S.H., or Power and Unity to Save Humanity.
"We help kids who are affected by the war back home, by raising funds and putting them to school and giving them their basic needs," Miss South Sudan Aquany Ayuen Jongkuch said.
She said she chose to come to Sioux Falls because she has family living in the community, and hopes many people will share her compassion for children living in South Sudan.
