"I believe that through my determination and love for Botswana, I can successfully, through the United Nations Population Fund, accomplish my goal of seeing the HIV statistics drop and having the women of Botswana get the necessary reproductive health care and facilities they need."
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Miss Universe, Mpule Kwelagobe, Appointed UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Botswana, 08 February 2000, 8February, 2000, UNFPA, retrieved 13 November 2022
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Mpule Kwelagobe
Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe (born 14 November 1979) is a Botswana investor, businesswoman, model, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1999. She was the first black African woman to win one of the Big Four international beauty pageants, the first woman from Botswana to win, and the first from a nation making their debut in nearly four decades. Kwelagobe had previously been crowned Miss Botswana 1997 and Miss Universe Botswana 1999, and competed in Miss World 1997.
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