The absolutely GORGEOUS Camila Batmanghelidjh seen arriving at the BBC studios in London wearing her trademark riot of colors and patterns.
The founder of the children’s charity Kids Company – a charity that provided care to children whose lives had been disrupted by poverty, abuse and trauma – has been in the British news after lashing out yesterday at ‘rumour-mongering civil servants’ and ‘ill-spirited ministers’ when it was announced that the organisation she founded 19 years ago was about to go bankrupt.
The backstory, from Wikipedia:
In 1996, after leaving the Place2Be, Batmanghelidjh founded Kids Company, a charity that provided care to children whose lives had been disrupted by poverty, abuse and trauma. Originally a single drop-in centre in Camberwell, Kids Company’s services reached some 36,000 children, young people and families. The charity operated through a network of street level centres, alternative education centres, therapy houses and with over 40 schools in London and Bristol as well as a performing arts programme in Liverpool.
In July 2015 a report by Newsnight and BuzzFeed revealed that public funding for Kid’s Company was to be withheld unless Batmanghelidjh was replaced. On 3 July it was reported that Batmanghelidjh would step down as chief executive in the next few months and continue in a “presidential” role.
On 5 August 2015, Kids Company closed its operations less than a week after receiving a government grant of £3,000,000. The charity was given the money against the advice of officials, who had raised concerns about value for money and how it would be spent. The charity had announced that it was closing down because “it is unable to pay its debts as they fall due”.
It should also be noted that in addition to ALWAYS LOOKING ABSOLUTELY DIVINE, Batmanghelidjh is a highly respected philanthropist and businesswoman, earning many honors throughout her career:
In 2009 Batmanghelidjh was named Businesswoman of the Year by the Dods and Scottish Widows Women in Public Life Awards. She has also received Ernst and Young’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award (2006), Third Sector Magazine’s Most Admired Chief Executive (2007) and the Centre for Social Justice’s lifetime achievement award in 2009. Batmanghelidjh has been awarded received honorary degrees and doctorates by several universities including York St John University, the Open University and Nottingham Trent University.In February 2013, she was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. In the same month, she was appointed an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to children and young people. In September 2014 she became an Honorary Fellow of UCL.
So I don’t really mean to be reductive when I gasp and flop around on the floor and scream that it’s ALL ABOUT THE TURBAN AND ROBE, because god bless this woman. But just look at her. She’s MAGNIFICENT. How can you NOT be mesmerized by her vibrant physicality.
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