Topaz page green biography of mahatma gandhi

South African model

Topaz Page-Green is a fashion model and the founder^[1] and president of the non-profit corporation The Lunchbox Fund.^[2]

Early life and education

Topaz Page-Green was born in ^[3] and raised near Johannesburg, South Africa.

Her father and mother were geologists.^[4]

She attended Kingsmead College, an all-girls private school in Johannesburg.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After graduating high school, Page-Green began her career in modelling after moving to London.^[5] While travelling on London's Underground she was noticed by a model scout and signed soon after with a talent agency.

Topaz page green biography of mahatma gandhi His wife, Kasturba Gandhi, was a steadfast supporter of his efforts and actively participated in his campaigns for social change. However, he also recognized that independence would have to be achieved in a way that did not perpetuate discrimination and inequality. Through his work in South Africa, Gandhi established himself as a leader and a symbol of resistance, and laid the foundation for his later role as a leader of the Indian independence movement. Joseph Chamberlain, the colonial secretary in the British Cabinet, urged Natal's government to bring the guilty men to proper jurisdiction, but Gandhi refused to prosecute his assailants.

On a trip home to South Africa in ^[3] she was confronted with the extreme poverty of her country, and decided to do something about it. In , she launched The Lunchbox Fund as her response to this poverty. The fund raises money to provide one meal a day to poor and at-risk students in township high schools in South Africa.^[6]

She studied Africa, sociology, and human rights at the New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.^[7]

The Lunchbox Fund

Page-Green founded The Lunchbox Fund in The fund provides one meal each day to 22, underprivileged high school students, totaling more than million meals a year.^[8] The Lunchbox Fund began in the historically at-risk Soweto district of Johannesburg.^[9]

Feedie

Page-Green created Feedie, an app which is credited as being the “first philanthropic food app.” Designed to be used by ‘foodies’ and others, the Feedie application uses social media to transform people's passion for sharing their photos of food into the sharing of actual food with school children in need via The Lunchbox Fund.^[10]

Recognition

In September fashion designerKenneth Cole included Page-Green in his “Courageous Class” ad campaign re-affirming his brand's motto, “Look Good, For Good.” ^[11]

Forbes included Topaz Page-Green in their list of the “World’s Most Powerful Business Women” in ^[12]

Personal life and style

Page-Green lives in an apartment in New York City's East Village.

She has lived in New York since ^[7] Page-Green is a vegetarian, and eats “mostly vegan” food.^[7][3] She was in a relationship with actor Joaquin Phoenix from to ^[13]

Page-Green has a son with her partner Emmanuel Roman.^[14]

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