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    Tan Le is a successful Vietnamese-Australian entrepreneur and the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. She arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam in 1982. Alek Wek is a South Sudanese British supermodel who fled Sudan during a civil war in 1991 and became the first African model to appear on the cover of Elle magazine in 1997. She now works to raise awareness about refugees and humanitarian issues through organizations like Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF.

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    Tan Le is a successful Vietnamese-Australian entrepreneur and the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. She arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam in 1982. Alek Wek is a South Sudanese British supermodel who fled Sudan during a civil war in 1991 and became the first African model to appear on the cover of Elle magazine in 1997. She now works to raise awareness about refugees and humanitarian issues through organizations like Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF.

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    Tan Le is a successful Vietnamese-Australian entrepreneur and the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. She arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam in 1982. Alek Wek is a South Sudanese British supermodel who fled Sudan during a civil war in 1991 and became the first African model to appear on the cover of Elle magazine in 1997. She now works to raise awareness about refugees and humanitarian issues through organizations like Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF.

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    Tan Le is a successful Vietnamese-Australian entrepreneur and the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. She arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam in 1982. Alek Wek is a South Sudanese British supermodel who fled Sudan during a civil war in 1991 and became the first African model to appear on the cover of Elle magazine in 1997. She now works to raise awareness about refugees and humanitarian issues through organizations like Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF.

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    Tan Le 1998 Young Australian of the Year and voted one of Australias 30 most successful Women Under 30. She was 20 years old. A very successful entrepreneur with Bachelors degrees in

    Commerce and Law and is now Business Development Director of SASme Wireless Communication. She arrived from Vietnam as a refugee in 1982.

    Alek Wek (1977-)

    Born in Wau, Sudan, Alek fled her country An international supermodel, who Nationality: South Sudanese Host country: Britain, despite having moved to the USA, following her success in the fashion world, "Model of the Year" in 1997 by MTV. She was the first African model to appear on the cover of Elle, also in 1997. Reasons for leaving the country: In 1991, following the civil war in Sudan which broke out in Wau in 1985, she, along with her family had to flee from both rebel and government forces to Britain. Area in which succeeded: fashion (international supermodel) http://www.modelinia.com/slideshows/modern-boho--destination-dress-up/304
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    She is a a South Sudanese British model She is from the Dinka ethnic group in South Sudan,[1] but in 1991 she and some family members fled to Britain to escape the civil war in Sudan, which broke out in Wau in 1985, the Wek family had to flee is.[2] She later moved to the United States. She was born the seventh of nine children in Wau in Sudan (now South Sudan) in 1977. She is a member of the U.S. Committee for Refugees' Advisory Council[9] and is helping to raise awareness about the situation in Sudan, as well as the plight of refugees worldwide. She can base this on her own experience as a refugee, fleeing the war in her country of birth. She is a missionary for World Vision, an organisation which combats AIDS, an ambassador for Doctors Without Borders in Sudan, and devotes time to UNICEF.[10] In 2007, she released an autobiography, entitled Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel, documenting her journey from a childhood of poverty in Sudan to the catwalks of Europe.[11]

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