Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York | Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is a philanthropist, charity patron, best-selling author, and film producer. A devoted human rights defender with a track record of fighting human rights abuses committed against children, she founded Children in Crisis (www.childrenincrisis.org.uk) in 1993 and remains active in its mission to provide aid and education to forgotten children around the world. She recently toured with Children in Crisis projects in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Chile, Russia, Poland, and Albania, and is spearheading its 15th anniversary celebration to raise £10 million to enable a further 250,000 children in post-conflict countries to go to school. She is a long-standing patron to a number of charities, including the Teenage Cancer Trust, Tommy’s–The Baby Charity, The African Caribbean Leukemia Trust and the Motor Neurone Disease Association. In 2007 she established the Sarah Ferguson Foundation in New York to fund programmes that promote education and wellness worldwide. Most recently she launched the White Ribbon Alliance’s Million Mums campaign to raise a million pounds and general awareness about the issue of maternal mortality and the importance of Millennium Development Goal 5.
