Eunice Ukwuani fuels advocacy through ‘heart of gold’

Eunice Ukwuani is a mannequin citizen—fairly actually. In her previous life, she labored the runway for a number of style reveals and remembers her video vixen days for a number of well-known artists. However her calling was not on the catwalk, it was on the earth of advocacy. So, Ukwuani targeted on her legislation and public administration research at Lengthy Island College and later, in graduate college, at Tempo College. 

Right this moment, she heads up her personal non-profit—the Princess Eunice Ukwuani Basis—which assists children who’re underprivileged and/or with disabilities overseas, particularly younger girls in Nigeria. In 2020, she says Brian Benjamin, former state senator and lieutenant governor, awarded her with a proclamation honoring her work in serving to ladies in Africa pay college tuition, and for her donations of PPE to hospitals.

“I care a lot about this world,” mentioned Ukwuani. “Once I see unhealthy issues taking place, it breaks me down. That’s how a lot love I might have for individuals. However, individuals need to benefit from us and do imply issues to us, however on the finish of the day, that [doesn’t] cease me from doing good. I’m all the time there to assist. I simply don’t know why, that’s simply the best way I’m.”

Her munificence dates again to her elementary college days when she shared meals and lunch cash together with her hungry classmates.

Lately, she campaigned for Mayor Eric Adams, in addition to former Rep. Tom Suozzi throughout his gubernatorial run as president of the New York Political Coalition group. In any case, regardless of her advocacy’s worldwide work, Ukwuani can’t think about dwelling wherever apart from the “Massive Apple.”

“I simply love New York,” she mentioned. “Nothing will make me go away New York.[For] those that need to come to the U.S. they’ve to go to New York. I don’t care wherever else they need to go. They need to come to New York.”