Miss Heritage Pageant was founded by
Tare Munzara from Zimbabwe, the pageant formerly known as (
Miss Heritage World
)recently rebranded because of the need to have its own unique
identity. The pageant was founded on the basis to incorporate all
nations, all religions and all people from different backgrounds to be
involved in the process of initiating positive change the world through
the use of world heritage. The first edition for Miss Heritage was
hosted in Zimbabwe, 13 December 2013 where Shequera Grace King from the
Bahamas was crowned as Miss Heritage World, Swati Kain from India 1st
RU, and Nataliya Poluektova as 2nd RU. Miss Heritage Pageant’s Vision
statement runs consistent with UNESCO conventions on world Heritage in
which the pageant mission statement being ‘’Celebrating Diverse
Beautiful Cultures.’’ The Mission being ‘’To fuse beauty pageantry and
Heritage into a quality entertaining, educative, life transforming and
multi Nation integrating tool that enhances development for universal
heritage promotion, preservation and protection, by the use of national
heritage beauty queens as ambassadors for the greater glory of
sustainable development. This year’s theme is Sustainable Heritage
through Education and the pageant shall be hosted in The Kingdom of Lesotho
in Africa, on the 6th of December 2014, where the winners shall be
crowned in their Heritage national Wears. Already National Directors
have started to prepare for the grand Finale, Rwanda, Philippines, and
Iceland has already crowned their National Queens.
Participation
is welcome to single and never been married women from ages 17 -28,
height 1.64m going up. The pageant concept is not just by name, mission,
vision and objectives but also its programs and production which is
purely Heritage. The fusion of heritage and beauty pageantry is very
much an astute noble idea because it creates the idea of modelling for a
purpose that is greater and deeper, making pageantry a tool for
sustainable development. To represent a nation’s heritage is an
important aspect because heritage is everything that a nation is made
up, from the physical and personality characteristics of the people, the
values, the climate, the religion, literature, the laws, the man made
and none man made features, the history and the current affairs and the
ideas and philosophy of that country. All those things make up a country
and they are the National Pride and National Treasure of each country,
so by having women from different countries represent all that in Miss
Heritage it creates many positive end results. Having Nations gathering
to exhibit, and celebrate their national heritage on an international
platform in competiveness addresses the issues of global unity capacity
building, heritage exchange, women empowerment and youth integration.
The
main objective is to use heritage as a tool for sustainable development
throughout the world ,so that there is change in people’s lives being
derived from the benefits of National and world heritage.. Having a
National Queen in a country that encourages Heritage promotion it then
leads to the revival of traditions and possible the restoration of sites
and monuments. Heritage Tourism has impacts which are positive and are
grouped into economic, environmental, social, and cultural; which
include, building community pride; enhancing the sense of identity of a
community or region; promoting intercultural/international
understanding; encouraging revival or maintenance of traditional crafts;
heritage events, enhancing external support for minority groups and
preservation of their culture, broadening community horizons; and
enhancing local and external appreciation and support for cultural
heritage. Every National Heritage Queen should encourage Heritage for
sustainable development in their country, for various communities.
However a powerful force of determined young women can change the
face of world heritage Miss Heritage Pageant calls upon all countries to
join not because it is an international pageant but because of the
concept behind the pageant.
List of 2013 Winners
Winner: Shequera Grace King Country : Bahamas
1st RU : Swati Kain Country : India
2nd RU : Nataliya Poluektova Country : Russia
3rd RU : Francesca Ena Country : Italy
4th RU : Tatiana Torres Country :Ecuador
Miss Personality : Ramzain Suma Country : Sierra Leone
Heritage Ambassador Africa : Nigeria : Stephnora Boniface
Heritage Ambassador Latin America : Tatiana Torres
Heritage Ambassador Europe : Francesca Ena
Road to the Kingdom of Lesotho
2014 Miss Heritage contestants (updating…)
Miss Philippines, Odessa Mae Tadaya
Miss Rwanda, Marlene Mutoniwase
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