‘Beauty pageant highlights plight of landmine survivors’
November 26th, 2007
From Fox News:
Ten women will show off their beauty and brains – and their landmine injuries – in Angola next April in a competition to win a golden prosthetic limb and the title of Miss Landmine 2008.
The project, created by Norwegian theater director Morten Traavik, is designed to raise awareness of the plight of landmine survivors. Contestants will have to demonstrate their skills and take part in an interview, though the details have yet to be finalized.
“There is no sensationalistic intentions within Miss Landmine,” Traavik said. “Of course the format has been chosen because it’s obviously a very media friendly forum, but it still is based very, very much on local culture, since beauty pageants are such a consistent phenomenon in Angolan contemporary culture.”

