Liya Kebede

I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!