Audrey Hepburn Research Paper

an individual who inspires me is Audrey Hepburn, best known for her role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Behind her pretty looks and her movie star career, many people aren't aware that Audrey Hepburn was a great humanitarian that had important role in UNICEF, The United Nations Children's Fund. Her acts of generosity and kindness demonstrated that a big name in Hollywood could be more than just a pretty face. Many people do not know that Audrey Hepburn was a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF. After her film career, she dedicated the rest of her life to helping impoverished children in the poorest nations. Hepburn had a wide knowledge of many languages which helped her on her travels, she was naturally bilingual in English and Dutch, along with being

fluent in French Italian Spanish and German. Audrey had done work for UNICEF in the 1950s with radio presentations but there was something more that she wanted than just to speak on the radio. Audrey's first field mission for UNICEF was to Ethiopia in 1988. She visited an orphanage in Mek'ele that housed 500 starving children and had UNICEF send food.

a thought of Audrey's about the experience in Ethiopia, "I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can't stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children." In August 1988, Hepburn went to Turkey on an immunization campaign. She called Turkey "the loveliest example" of UNICEF's capabilities. She explained how the army lend them their trucks, fishmongers allowed them their wagons for vaccines, and it only took about 10 days whole country. Audrey continued with her work and she toured Central America in February 1989. Hepburn continued to travel to places with UNICEF such as Bangladesh, Vietnam and Somalia which was four month before her death. Audrey described Somalia as "walking into a nightmare." She described she has seen famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh but she had never seen nothing as bad as how Somalia was. There were graves just about everywhere, although seeing this had scared Audrey she still had hope. Audrey Hepburn’s life has inspired me in many ways, because instead of being a typical Hollywood figure, vain and focusing on herself only, she took a route less travelled for people in her position, something most film and fashion icons never did in that

era. Audrey dedicated her life to helping people less fortunate the best she could. I also hope that someday, when I have everything in place for myself, that I’ll be able to do for people, as Audrey did.