Clarins Most Dynamic Woman 2011

On Tuesday night, Angela Larkan from Thanda was awarded the 2011 CLARINS Most Dynamic Woman of the Year. FAIRLADY together with CLARINS and SARIE celebrated this amazing award with Angela at Summer Place. Christian Courtin-Clarins, CLARINS President and CEO flew in from Paris to hand over the Award. FAIRLADY is proud to be yet again part of this prestigious award to help the South African community.

The Prize: Angela won R200 000 from Clarins, a BlackBerry and an AVIS car for a year. The money will be used to support double the current 325 children orphaned by AIDS.

About the winner: Nine years ago, Angela Larkan sat in her college dorm room in Connecticut, America, procrastinating and fiddling around reading articles online. One of the articles she read that day warned of the millions of children that would be left orphaned by Aids by 2010. This prompted her to head back to the country of her birth to research the problem further and find a way of becoming part of the solution. Together with her boyfriend Tyler Howard, she moved back to KwaZulu-Natal's South Coast and put this research into practice. The result? Launching Thanda, a programme designed to offer support to orphans and vulnerable children in rural South Africa, and being chosen as the 2011 Clarins/FAIRLADY Most Dynamic Woman of the Year. 

Angela had this to say about winning the award: ‘Before we won this award, we were forced to focus on surviving: we were operating on a month to month basis, and wondering each month whether we were going to be able to carry on providing meals and paying the stipends of our teachers. But this prize money gives us the breathing space to look at the bigger picture, to find partners, to network, and to look toward working with bigger NGOs and government partners.’

Have a look at the gallery below for photos of the event: