OPRAH WINFREY

OPRAH WINFREY, A STORY OF SUCCESS 

She cares for human, cares for the earth, cares for animals, respects people, cares for her Country, she was from a school of hard knocks, but she is a fighter, does not give up

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Oprah Winfrey, Is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", The richest African American of 20th century, was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1958, on 29th of January. She is best known as the most successful American Television producer, and is among the most influential women in the world. She did not have a promising childhood and had to face a variety of hardships in her teenage life. After her parents’ separation, she was sent to her grandparents, to live in extreme poverty. She ran away from her home at the age of 13 and became mother at 14. After her son’s death in infancy, She went back to live with her barber father in Tennessee. This was the first time, as she remembers she took her studies seriously and managed to become an honors student. Her dedication soon paid off and she became the most popular student at East Nashville High School and won several awards in open speech competition. Later, she studied communication from Tennessee State University.

At the age of 19, her life took a turn for better when she got a job at a local Radio Station as a co-anchor for the local evening news. In 1984, she started to host ‘AM Chicago’, an early morning talk show, which soon became the most watched show in America. Later, it was renamed as ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. The syndicated talk show became the most popular show in the Television history with over 30 million American viewers and spanned across 144 countries worldwide. She has also proved herself as the most influential spiritual leader through ‘Change Your Life TV’ with 22 million female viewers.

Besides being a T.V host and producer, she is the Co-founder of Oxygen Media and founder of Oprah Magazine. In 1998, she started a charity named ‘Oprah’s Angel Network’ for which she carries all administrative costs. In 2003, Oprah became the first African-American woman to reach billionaire status, according to Forbes Magazine. She has broken through cultural, geographical and gender barriers, letting the world know it’s not your circumstances, but your heart that determines how far you go in this world

The Oprah Winfrey Foundation was established to support the inspiration, empowerment, education and well-being of women, children and families around the world. Oprah has contributed millions of dollars towards providing a better education for underserved students.

Oprah’s influence has spread far and wide. She has used her power and status to remind the world of the AIDS pandemic in South Africa; she has introduced new and old readers to numerous authors and hidden literary masterpieces; she has inspired us with her openness and compassion and vision of a better world.

Oprah has also created the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. The school will teach girls to be the best human beings they can be, training them to become decision makers and leaders, allowing them to explore the changing world through advanced education techniques and advanced technology, including a telecommunications system. The latter will allow Oprah to teach from Chicago. South African teachers and administrators will be selected from the best and the brightest of South Africa's educators. The Oprah Winfrey Foundation will contribute $10 million to build and maintain the academy with additional funding to come from the Guateng Deparment of Education.

"Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world,” she said. “Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom. With God's help, these girls will be the future leaders on the path to peace in South Africa and the world."


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