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Thank you so much for visiting my website and keeping updated on my journey to become Miss Teen Minnesota International 2014! First of all, my name is Anna Korger and I am Miss Teen Dakota County International 2014. I am so excited to represent my city and speak on my platform, "Comfort for Kids", in the upcoming Miss Teen Minnesota International pageant in March! The Miss Teen Minnesota International Pageant motivates young women and their families to exemplify traditional family values, and to make a difference by getting involved in their communities.
The Miss Teen International Pageant system was created to promote today's teens, ages 13 - 18, and their accomplishments. Around the world women are finding this system to be the opportunity to work with others and to become positive role models. Being the premiere pageant for young women has given Miss Teen International a chance to open doors for all teenage women around the world. Accepted contestants in the state competitions become ambassadors from their city/county. Each young woman is given the opportunity to select a service platform of her choice that she spends the year promoting. The national platform for the International Pageant System is Go Red for Women. This promotes the awareness of heart's disease, the number one killer of women in America. Heart disease kills one in three American women - but you have the power to prevent it. Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association's national movement to help women reduce their risk of heart disease.
My platform is titled "Comfort for Kids". Partnering with Stuffed Animals For Emergencies (S.A.F.E.), my personal chapter is called Anna's Closet where donations of stuffed animals are able to be distributed to children's hospitals, along with first responders, and homeless shelters to give to a child going through a scary situation. By partnering with S.A.F.E. I am able to broaden my ability to raise the awareness of how easy it is to donate a stuffed animal and make the world of a difference to a child going through a scary, and unfamiliar scenario. In 2006 when I was in the second grade, I had to undergo a surgery to get a tumor removed from the back of my skull. The day of the surgery I received a teddy bear from a Child Life specialist at the hospital. At that moment I gained comfort in a situation that otherwise would have been frightening, especially in the eyes of an eight year old. My personal experience is what drives me to be that difference to a child going through the same thing as me. Being crowned Miss Teen Minnesota International 2014 will allow me to reach even more children and ultimately, give me the great opportunity to be the positive role model in someone's life they can look up to and show that there is life beyond their current illness or accident, and no matter the circumstance, there is comfort. I've been in their shoes, and I want to be able to provide the gateway to that feeling.
Thanks for visiting!
Sincerely,
Anna
Thank you so much for visiting my website and keeping updated on my journey to become Miss Teen Minnesota International 2014! First of all, my name is Anna Korger and I am Miss Teen Dakota County International 2014. I am so excited to represent my city and speak on my platform, "Comfort for Kids", in the upcoming Miss Teen Minnesota International pageant in March! The Miss Teen Minnesota International Pageant motivates young women and their families to exemplify traditional family values, and to make a difference by getting involved in their communities.
The Miss Teen International Pageant system was created to promote today's teens, ages 13 - 18, and their accomplishments. Around the world women are finding this system to be the opportunity to work with others and to become positive role models. Being the premiere pageant for young women has given Miss Teen International a chance to open doors for all teenage women around the world. Accepted contestants in the state competitions become ambassadors from their city/county. Each young woman is given the opportunity to select a service platform of her choice that she spends the year promoting. The national platform for the International Pageant System is Go Red for Women. This promotes the awareness of heart's disease, the number one killer of women in America. Heart disease kills one in three American women - but you have the power to prevent it. Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association's national movement to help women reduce their risk of heart disease.
My platform is titled "Comfort for Kids". Partnering with Stuffed Animals For Emergencies (S.A.F.E.), my personal chapter is called Anna's Closet where donations of stuffed animals are able to be distributed to children's hospitals, along with first responders, and homeless shelters to give to a child going through a scary situation. By partnering with S.A.F.E. I am able to broaden my ability to raise the awareness of how easy it is to donate a stuffed animal and make the world of a difference to a child going through a scary, and unfamiliar scenario. In 2006 when I was in the second grade, I had to undergo a surgery to get a tumor removed from the back of my skull. The day of the surgery I received a teddy bear from a Child Life specialist at the hospital. At that moment I gained comfort in a situation that otherwise would have been frightening, especially in the eyes of an eight year old. My personal experience is what drives me to be that difference to a child going through the same thing as me. Being crowned Miss Teen Minnesota International 2014 will allow me to reach even more children and ultimately, give me the great opportunity to be the positive role model in someone's life they can look up to and show that there is life beyond their current illness or accident, and no matter the circumstance, there is comfort. I've been in their shoes, and I want to be able to provide the gateway to that feeling.
Thanks for visiting!
Sincerely,
Anna