Vote For Doctor Marie Ojiambo To Win Miss Africa USA.

Models are peculiar people; they are disarmingly beautiful, sometimes tall and waif, voluptuous and flawless, even vain. Stunning to a fault, they command attention, have this air of ‘ethereal’ calm or a stay-away-from-me ‘stench’ that keeps you at bay.

Not so for Marie Ojiambo. According to her bio, Marie Ojiambo is a Doctor of Pharmacy who graduated with a bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Nairobi, School of Pharmacy, Kenya. She subsequently relocated to the United States of America for further studies. She is currently pursuing a MSc in Industrial Pharmacy, thesis program, at St. Johns University, Queens new York. Damn!

It continues to say her career focus centers in the area of Drug Research and Development (R&D). This encompasses research on aspects such as drug discovery, development and production, as well as the evaluation of drugs and pharmaceutical products. And they say beauties seemingly have no brains! Geez. She has four siblings, all raised by a single mum who is alsp medical doctor by training with a masters in public health. The apple is yet to fall far from the tree.

Why should you vote for Marie you ask? Marie is currently working on starting a program ‘Adopt a Sickler’ whose mandate is to offer medical support to needy patients suffering sickle cell disease. The program couples up a patient who is in critical need of medication with a sponsor who would finance the patients chemotherapy for a year or longer. She has been living with Sickle Cell anaemia her whole life, falling sick in America where people had little knowledge about the disease fueled her resolve to be a doctor.

Marie is currently making arrangements to take up the daily medical expenses of 3 young children. These children suffer from the disease here in Kenya and says that her projects sustainability is purely dependent on goodwill. She plans to have medical awareness camps in areas that are sickle cell endemic. She is affiliated with Fashion for development, Talanta Africa Incorporation, Care for Kenya and the International Youth Council (Kenyan Chapter). The young doctor enjoys the outdoors, reading and travelling.

The pertinent question is HOW do you vote for her? Simple, go this this page, and click on the fifth star above her bio. That simple.