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Miss World BVI sashed & crowned at official ceremony
Malone was selected from among three candidates to represent the Virgin Islands (VI) at the upcoming annual Miss World Pageant to be held in Sentul, Indonesia on September, 28 2013.
LIME’ Managing Director, Sean Auguste, described the moment as one which allowed the company to demonstrate its support to the community and also to celebrate the possibilities that lay within young ladies such as Malone.
“So often, we see positive young people in the community fade away because they are not supported well, because their dreams have been challenged even before they get off the ground,” he noted.
He said the company was happy to partner with the Miss World BVI Pageant Committee, just as it has with other community organisations which celebrate the moment and expressed pleasure that the partnership would yield a great financial contribution to the Autism Centre in the VI.
A donation of one thousand dollars was made to the Autism Centre by Malone on behalf of LIME during the ceremony. The Centre’s Programme Director, Ms Lorna Dawson, commented that it was quite fitting that LIME had made the contribution considering the fact that communication was one of the main challenges affecting persons with autism.
Franchise holder, Mr Damion Grange, thanked LIME for partnering with the committee and promised that the VI would not be disappointed as Malone carries the flag of the Virgin Islands high in Indonesia. He requested the community’s support in the process and asked that they also support the committee in its positive initiative.
He also disclosed that the element of time was key in selecting Malone as the representative for the Miss World Pageant. “It boils down to a matter of time, there was no time to organise a pageant, there was no time to promote a selection process so as to narrow it down to the young ladies who were interested, so we just went with the contestants who we knew were interested in going through it,” Grange said.
Malone said she felt a deep sense of gratitude and humility in representing the VI and extended gratitude to LIME for sponsoring the event as she sang a few notes for the excited and supportive crowd of well-wishers.
“I look at vying for the title as a big opportunity,” Malone said of her influence in becoming involved in the pageant and stated that it also allowed her to promote the country while receiving exposure for her talent.
Malone said she was most excited about experiencing the different culture in Indonesia and meeting the other contestants and found her greatest strength to be her singing talent.
She added that she thought pageantry is both about inner and outer beauty and felt intelligence also plays a key role when one participates in pageantry.
The Miss World BVI franchise was recently resurrected by the local committee some twelve years after the pageant was last held in the Territory.
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