Dayle Haddon To Be Honored for WomenOne at UN Women for Peace Association Awards

Before Dayle Haddon could start an interview about her nonprofit WomenOne, or even take a seat, she had numerous iPhone photos and personal exchanges to underscore how children’s lives in Nanyuki and other underserved places are being helped. In her 12 years as a UNICEF ambassador, she has trekked all over Africa and South America, where cholera and other diseases, hunger and poverty are destroying lives. The idea for her education-focused WomenOne sprang from a visit to an Angola health clinic where women had walked all night, in some cases carrying children, to get care. After learning two microscopes were needed and learning that UNICEF deemed such a donation too small, Haddon realized that smaller organizations have their own places to serve. In the nine years since she started her own charity, Haddon and her team have touched down in seven countries to enroll hundreds of girls in school, subsequently improving the lives of thousands of women globally. Some of the children her group has helped can be seen in colorful, oversize photographs in her uptown apartment. A box that she is filling with toys to send to them is another clue to her non-New York life. Haddon will be honored for

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