Who Knows Tomorrow
From High Fashion to a Mud Hut
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Publisher Description
From a glittering life running Vogue to a mud hut in Ghana, a fashion icon now offers hope to thousands of lost children.
After an essay contest at 18 landed her a plum internship at Anna Wintour's British Vogue, within a year Lisa Lovatt-Smith became the youngest photo editor in the history of Conde Nast and at 21 she was tapped to head Spanish Vogue.
Lisa’s meteoric rise soon saw her hosting lavish parties with celebrities like the Rolling Stones, Madonna and Andy Warhol. By her mid-thirties, she had a dream career, a wardrobe to die for, and a beautiful home in Paris.
But a decision to volunteer at an orphanage in Ghana changed her life- and many others forever. Confronted with the horrifying reality of trhe orphan's lives, Lisa is shocked out of her privileged life. She quits her job, sells her house and within18 months abandons her glamorous life to move to Ghana, determined to make a difference.
Today, Lisa lives in a mud hut in Ghana, from where she oversees her award-winning OrphanAid Africa, helping thousands of children separated from their families by poverty, AIDS or the exodus to the cities.
WHO KNOWS TOMORROW it is a powerful and inspiring true story of a remarkable woman who reminds us all of what truly matters.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the midst of a career in high fashion, journalist and author (Paris Interiors) Lovatt-Smith stepped off her gilded career path to pursue a passion. This inspiring memoir explores her transformation from the youngest editor at British Vogue into an activist focused on the establishment of children s aid organizations in Ghana. When her daughter s emotional problems became overwhelming, a counselor suggested that volunteering might help. Hoping the experience of working with orphans would be a life lesson for her 17-year-old daughter, whom she had adopted 12 years earlier, Lovatt-Smith moved their household to Ghana. Conditions were abominable, but working with the children changed the course of both their lives, intellectually and geographically. As Lovatt-Smith writes, I had moved to Ghana, effectively transformed my career from writing and styling for magazines to charity work, and opened three companies Oafrica in Ghana, Spain and France Though she was industrious and committed to her work, the author s na vet regarding her adopted country s customs and culture soon became apparent as she grasped the depth of corruption within Ghana s adoption business. The author reversed her plan in 2005, and initiated a crusade to get children out of orphanages and into families. It was not only what I was reading of course, it was the nearly four years of experience in seven different orphanages, all with the same problems, she writes. Lovatt-Smith s immensely readable narrative explores her personal metamorphosis and her positive impact on the children of Ghana.
