With Her Princess GieGie Children’s Book Series, Model Georgie Badiel Is Telling the Stories of African Girls

Burkinabe model Georgie Badiel is a real superheroine. While living and thriving in New York City, she was looking for creative ways to help her village back home in Burkina Faso. In 2015, she found it by first establishing the Georgie Badiel Foundation, which aims to ensure that the people there have access to clean water and sanitation facilities. A year later, she cowrote The Water Princess, a semiautobiographical children’s book about a young girl trying to bring clean water to her village.