Helena Houdová

Miss Czech Republic 1999 and Founding President of the Sunfl ower Children’s Foundation – a humanitarian aid organization providing survival and development care for the forgotten children of the world. Sunflower‘s efforts encompass medical, nutritional, psychological, educational, adoption and other humanitarian support that nurtures survival, health, growth and hope for orphaned, disabled, abandoned, refugee and impoverished children. She has been working with orphans and deaf children in the Czech Republic since 1997.