Leah Marville
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Leah Janine Marville is a model, TV host and former Miss Barbados World
.
Born and raised in Saint James, Barbados, Marville started her international career after being spotted at Barbados Fashion Week (2006) by Dwight Peters. Marville was encouraged to participate in the Fashion Face of the Caribbean competition in Jamaica
, where she came third. Recommended by international pageant scouts, from Elite Model Management
and MC2), Leah was flown to New York to develop her portfolio. She was first signed internationally to South African agency Base Model Management
and German
model agency East West Models. Leah is signed to RED model management in New York.
Dubbed the ""Sexiest Woman Alive"" in 2009 by Global Beauties, Leah is one of the new faces on BET's Centric network, and is the main host for the Caribbean lifestyle series, Splash.
Marville attended Erdiston Primary school and Queen's College
. She went on to study law at the University of the West Indies
, Cave Hill campus, Barbados. She received her Bachelor of law with honours in 2007. She will finish her Legal Education Certificate at The Hugh Wooding Law School- Trinidad
- in August 2012. She has interned at a prominent entertainment law
firm, Gordon-McGrath in Jamaica, and had oversight responsibilities for high profile clients such as Beenie Man
and family members of the late Reggae
icon Bob Marley
. Marville was also employed at the Jamaica Human Rights Council, where she was responsible for overseeing the human rights of death row inmates throughout prisons in Kingston, Jamaica.
While at Queens college she briefly served on her school's Cadet programme where her cousin Shontelle
, who is signed to Street Records Corporation
/Universal Motown Records
was her drill sergeant.
, South Africa
for Base Model Management. She has appeared in several magazine publications such as Cosmopolitan
Elle
and Marie Claire
and in 2009, after being titled the Sexiest Woman Alive, shot her first cover for SHE Caribbean and her second cover for ZING LIAT Magazine.
Her clients have included: Dunhill Cigarettes, American Swiss, and Nivea
-Visage. Marville has participated in several Caribbean fashion week
s: Barbados fashion week, Style Week Jamaica, Saint Kitts
fashion weekend, Guyana
Fashion week
, Dominicana Moda, and Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago
. On October 24, 2010, Marville was given the award for Top Caribbean Female model, at the Caribbean fashion awards. Her tenth anniversary She magazine cover, was also awarded best Caribbean magazine cover for 2010.
In 2011, Marville signed on as the face and spokesmodel for the inaugural staging of Caribbean International Fashion Week.
where she met with executive producers for the BET J
Caribbean
music show Wicked Style. In 2008, she secured a place on the show as a guest host, and by 2009 she was promoted to the main host and co-produced the Barbados and Jamaican episodes. Marville's interest in television production later led her to produce and direct Young Execs, a Barbadian Reality show modelled on The Apprentice, where CEO of South Central Entertainment (Barbados) Richard Haynes assumes the Donald Trump
role.
In 2009, Marville produced her own lifestyle reality show, Passport 246 in partnership with Mykal Cushnie
of DSE Media in Jamaica. In 2010 she launched the second season Passport246: Journey to Miss World. This series was later syndicated on Tempo Networks in July 2011 In 2010, she joined the cast of Splash!, with Tamara Ennis and Crystal Cunningham, on a lifestyle Caribbean show on Centric. In 2011, she was retained for the second season of Splash on Centric.
newspaper, The Barbados Advocate
, and the Jamaican Gleaner Company
newspaper. In June 2009, Marville secured an exclusive interview feature with Larry Nimmer, about his documentary, Michael Jackson
: The Untold Story of Never Land. The interview later aired on Television Jamaica (TVJ) and on CBC TV 8 Barbados.
Marville later conducted entertainment related interviews with stars such as Wyclef, Beenie Man, Marlon Wayans, Shontelle
, Eve, Kelly Rowland
, Rick Ross
, Trey Songz
, Etana
, the Pussycat Dolls
, Vybz Cartel, Lisa Leslie
, Joe Jackson
, Usain Bolt
, Shaggy
and Toure
.
staging in South Africa, and watching fellow country-woman Natalie Griffith place in the top fifteen, Marville decided to enter her local pageant. On October 3, 2009, she was crowned Miss Barbados World
2009, and represented her country at the 59th staging of the Miss World pageant, hosted in Johannesburg
South Africa. At the Miss Barbados pageant Marville won two fast track events: "Most Photogenic" and "Beauty With A Purpose
".
At Miss World
2009 Marville won the "Continental Queen of Beauty" Award for being the highest placed Caribbean delegate. Her Love Campaign won second place for the Miss World Beauty with a Purpose fast track category Marville also went on to win the Miss World "People's Choice" award. The Love Campaign was entered as Leah's "Beauty With A Purpose" project for the Miss Barbados World competition and received an award from the HIV Commission of Barbados and the HIV Food Bank.
In April 2011, Stephanie Chase-Yates, former Miss Barbados World 2001 and CEO of SFC International, handed over the Miss Barbados World franchise to Marville Management, which is owned and operated by Leah Marville. The new Miss Barbados World, 2011 competition was launched July 1 at the Limegrove lifestyle centre
dubbed "Fashion with a Mission". The charity benefited several children who had lost their families in accidents. The funds were donated to the Barbados Media Disaster Relief Fund. Through corporate and public donations, the fund went on to generate over five hundred thousand Barbadian dollars.
Founded in March 2009, The Love Campaign, as conceived by Marville, aimed to regenerate a culture of giving and awareness in Barbados and to encourage people to abandon the HIV social stigma. The campaign slogan is: "Don't judge, just love: Abandon the stigma".
The campaign promotion included several multi-media adverts, and featured celebrities such as Wyclef
, Marlon Wayans
, Eve
, Beenie Man
, and Kelly Rowland
. Reggae-Soul singer Cezar Cunningham sang the campaign theme song "These Three Letters". The campaign was officially endorsed by the former Prime Minister of Barbados
David Thompson
, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
The Love Campaign partnered with Barbadian designer Toni Thorne in 2009, to launch the "Martha's Smile" campaign in Jamaica. Donations from the partnership went towards the rebuilding fund for Martha's Home, a hospice for abandoned children living with HIV/AIDS, after it had been destroyed by an electrical fire By October 2010, the campaign has raised more than US$70,000.
In 2010, Marville launched The Love Campaign School Tour, which delivered the message of healthy lifestyles to children at several secondary schools under the banner "respect yaself". The Love Campaign won second place at the 2009 Miss World "Beauty with a Purpose" competition. The campaign has earned Marville several local awards, including two national youth awards: the Bayan Award and the Humanitarian Award; and the Phenomenal Woman award presented by the Girlfriends Foundation in the category of philanthropy
.
Miss Barbados World
The Miss Barbados World beauty pageant selects representatives for the Miss World pageant from Barbados.The current Miss Barbados World Pageant franchise holder is Stephanie Chase...
.
Born and raised in Saint James, Barbados, Marville started her international career after being spotted at Barbados Fashion Week (2006) by Dwight Peters. Marville was encouraged to participate in the Fashion Face of the Caribbean competition in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
, where she came third. Recommended by international pageant scouts, from Elite Model Management
Elite Model Management
Elite Model Management is a large modeling agency based in New York and Paris. It is a subsidiary of Elite World S.A.-History:Founded in France in 1972 by John Casablancas and Alain Kittler, it was rebought in 1990 by Nicholas Farrae. Elite World S.A. is the parent company of Elite Model...
and MC2), Leah was flown to New York to develop her portfolio. She was first signed internationally to South African agency Base Model Management
and German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
model agency East West Models. Leah is signed to RED model management in New York.
Dubbed the ""Sexiest Woman Alive"" in 2009 by Global Beauties, Leah is one of the new faces on BET's Centric network, and is the main host for the Caribbean lifestyle series, Splash.
Childhood and education
Leah lost her father, Don Marville, at age eleven to brain cancer and was subsequently raised by her mother, Heather Gibson. She had an active childhood and was part of the Dancing Africa dance troupe.Marville attended Erdiston Primary school and Queen's College
Queen's College (Barbados)
Queen's College was established as a result of the recommendation of an Education Commission whose report suggested that Barbados required a first grade school for girls...
. She went on to study law at the University of the West Indies
University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...
, Cave Hill campus, Barbados. She received her Bachelor of law with honours in 2007. She will finish her Legal Education Certificate at The Hugh Wooding Law School- Trinidad
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
- in August 2012. She has interned at a prominent entertainment law
Entertainment law
Entertainment law or media law is a term for a mix of more traditional categories of law with a focus on providing legal services to the entertainment industry. The principal areas of Entertainment Law overlap substantially with the well-known and conventional field of intellectual property law...
firm, Gordon-McGrath in Jamaica, and had oversight responsibilities for high profile clients such as Beenie Man
Beenie Man
Anthony Moses Davis , better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Grammy award winning Jamaican reggae artist. He is the self-proclaimed "King of the Dancehall".-Biography:...
and family members of the late Reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
icon Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
. Marville was also employed at the Jamaica Human Rights Council, where she was responsible for overseeing the human rights of death row inmates throughout prisons in Kingston, Jamaica.
While at Queens college she briefly served on her school's Cadet programme where her cousin Shontelle
Shontelle
Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...
, who is signed to Street Records Corporation
SRC Records
SRC Records is an American record label created by former Loud Records CEO Steve Rifkind. It is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group and is distributed through Universal Republic Records.-Company history:...
/Universal Motown Records
Motown Records
Motown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit...
was her drill sergeant.
Career
Marville started modeling professionally in 2008 in Cape TownCape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
for Base Model Management. She has appeared in several magazine publications such as Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
and Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...
and in 2009, after being titled the Sexiest Woman Alive, shot her first cover for SHE Caribbean and her second cover for ZING LIAT Magazine.
Her clients have included: Dunhill Cigarettes, American Swiss, and Nivea
Nivea
Nivea is a global skin- and body-care brand that is owned by the German company Beiersdorf. The company was founded on March 28 1882 by pharmacist Carl Paul Beiersdorf. In 1900, the new owner Oskar Troplowitz developed a water-in-oil emulsion as a skin cream with Eucerit, the first stable emulsion...
-Visage. Marville has participated in several Caribbean fashion week
Fashion Week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...
s: Barbados fashion week, Style Week Jamaica, Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts Saint Kitts Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French) is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean...
fashion weekend, Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
Fashion week
Fashion Week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...
, Dominicana Moda, and Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
. On October 24, 2010, Marville was given the award for Top Caribbean Female model, at the Caribbean fashion awards. Her tenth anniversary She magazine cover, was also awarded best Caribbean magazine cover for 2010.
In 2011, Marville signed on as the face and spokesmodel for the inaugural staging of Caribbean International Fashion Week.
Television
In 2006, Marville attended the BET AwardsBET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...
where she met with executive producers for the BET J
BET J
Centric is a spin-off cable television channel of BET , created originally to showcase jazz music-related programming, especially that of black jazz musicians. It is now a general interest channel geared towards African-American adults...
Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
music show Wicked Style. In 2008, she secured a place on the show as a guest host, and by 2009 she was promoted to the main host and co-produced the Barbados and Jamaican episodes. Marville's interest in television production later led her to produce and direct Young Execs, a Barbadian Reality show modelled on The Apprentice, where CEO of South Central Entertainment (Barbados) Richard Haynes assumes the Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
role.
In 2009, Marville produced her own lifestyle reality show, Passport 246 in partnership with Mykal Cushnie
Mykal Cushnie
Michael Edward Cushnie also known as Mykal, is a Jamaican film director, film producer and editor. He is most recognized for his work on Magnum kings and Queens of Dancehall- the Jamaican dancehall version of American Idol -, The Wray & Nephew Contender - The Jamaican version of Mark Burnett's...
of DSE Media in Jamaica. In 2010 she launched the second season Passport246: Journey to Miss World. This series was later syndicated on Tempo Networks in July 2011 In 2010, she joined the cast of Splash!, with Tamara Ennis and Crystal Cunningham, on a lifestyle Caribbean show on Centric. In 2011, she was retained for the second season of Splash on Centric.
Journalism
Leah Marville is a freelance journalist for The Daily NationThe Daily Nation (Barbados)
The Nation Publishing Company Limited is the publisher of the Nation Newspaper, which is the dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. First established in 1973 the Daily Nation is printed daily in colour and distributed at many points around the country...
newspaper, The Barbados Advocate
The Barbados Advocate
The Advocate is the second most dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. First established in 1895, the Advocate is the longest continually published newspaper in the country. Printed in colour, the Advocate covers a wide array of topics including: business, sports, entertainment...
, and the Jamaican Gleaner Company
Gleaner Company
The Gleaner Company Ltd, is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica. Established in 1834 by Joshua and Jacob De Cordova, primary product is The Gleaner, a morning broadsheet published six days each week. It also publishes a Sunday paper, the Sunday Gleaner, and an evening tabloid, The Star...
newspaper. In June 2009, Marville secured an exclusive interview feature with Larry Nimmer, about his documentary, Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
: The Untold Story of Never Land. The interview later aired on Television Jamaica (TVJ) and on CBC TV 8 Barbados.
Marville later conducted entertainment related interviews with stars such as Wyclef, Beenie Man, Marlon Wayans, Shontelle
Shontelle
Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...
, Eve, Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland
Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...
, Rick Ross
Rick Ross (rapper)
William Leonard Roberts II , better known by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper. He derived his stage name from the drug trafficker "Freeway" Ricky Ross, to whom he has no connection...
, Trey Songz
Trey Songz
Tremaine "Trey" Aldon Neverson , better known by his stage name Trey Songz, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor. His debut album, I Gotta Make It, was released in 2005, while his second album, Trey Day, was released in 2007...
, Etana
Etana
Etana was an ancient, legendary Sumerian king of the city of Kish, and was, according to the Sumerian king list, one of the kings who reigned after the deluge. He is listed as the successor of Arwium, the son of Mashda, as king of Kish...
, the Pussycat Dolls
Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble based in Los Angeles; currently consisting of Lauren Bennett, Vanessa Curry, Kristal "Lyndriette" Smith, Tiffany "Taz" Zavala, Kia Hampton and Paula Van Oppen. The Pussycat Dolls were founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995...
, Vybz Cartel, Lisa Leslie
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...
, Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson (musician)
Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...
, Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt
The Honourable Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, C.D. , is a Jamaican sprinter and a five-time World and three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and the 4×100 metres relay...
, Shaggy
Shaggy (musician)
Orville Richard Burrell , better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer and rapper. He is perhaps best known for his 1995 single "Boombastic" and 2000 single "It Wasn't Me"...
and Toure
Touré
Touré is an American novelist, essayist, music journalist, cultural critic, and television personality based in New York City. He is the host of Fuse's Hiphop Shop and On The Record...
.
Miss Barbados World
After attending the 2008 Miss WorldMiss World
The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
staging in South Africa, and watching fellow country-woman Natalie Griffith place in the top fifteen, Marville decided to enter her local pageant. On October 3, 2009, she was crowned Miss Barbados World
Miss Barbados World
The Miss Barbados World beauty pageant selects representatives for the Miss World pageant from Barbados.The current Miss Barbados World Pageant franchise holder is Stephanie Chase...
2009, and represented her country at the 59th staging of the Miss World pageant, hosted in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
South Africa. At the Miss Barbados pageant Marville won two fast track events: "Most Photogenic" and "Beauty With A Purpose
Beauty With A Purpose
Beauty With A Purpose is an event established in 2001 that is celebrated during the activities prior to the Miss World pageant. It awards the contestant with the most relevant and important charity project in her nation. Since 2005 the winner automatically makes the semifinals...
".
At Miss World
Miss World
The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
2009 Marville won the "Continental Queen of Beauty" Award for being the highest placed Caribbean delegate. Her Love Campaign won second place for the Miss World Beauty with a Purpose fast track category Marville also went on to win the Miss World "People's Choice" award. The Love Campaign was entered as Leah's "Beauty With A Purpose" project for the Miss Barbados World competition and received an award from the HIV Commission of Barbados and the HIV Food Bank.
In April 2011, Stephanie Chase-Yates, former Miss Barbados World 2001 and CEO of SFC International, handed over the Miss Barbados World franchise to Marville Management, which is owned and operated by Leah Marville. The new Miss Barbados World, 2011 competition was launched July 1 at the Limegrove lifestyle centre
Philanthropy
Marville's humanitarian efforts began in 2007, when she hosted a charity walkathonWalkathon
A walkathon , walking marathon or sponsored walk is a type of community or school fundraiser in which participants raise money by collecting donations or pledges for walking a predetermined distance or course...
dubbed "Fashion with a Mission". The charity benefited several children who had lost their families in accidents. The funds were donated to the Barbados Media Disaster Relief Fund. Through corporate and public donations, the fund went on to generate over five hundred thousand Barbadian dollars.
Founded in March 2009, The Love Campaign, as conceived by Marville, aimed to regenerate a culture of giving and awareness in Barbados and to encourage people to abandon the HIV social stigma. The campaign slogan is: "Don't judge, just love: Abandon the stigma".
The campaign promotion included several multi-media adverts, and featured celebrities such as Wyclef
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country...
, Marlon Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Marlon L. Wayans is an American actor, model producer, comedian, writer, and director of movies, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988...
, Eve
Eve
Eve is the first woman created by God in the Book of Genesis.Eve may also refer to:-People:*Eve , a common given name and surname*Eve , American recording artist and actress-Places:...
, Beenie Man
Beenie Man
Anthony Moses Davis , better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Grammy award winning Jamaican reggae artist. He is the self-proclaimed "King of the Dancehall".-Biography:...
, and Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland
Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...
. Reggae-Soul singer Cezar Cunningham sang the campaign theme song "These Three Letters". The campaign was officially endorsed by the former Prime Minister of Barbados
Prime Minister of Barbados
The Prime Minister of Barbados is a very influential position as head of government of Barbados. According to Barbados Constitution, the Prime Minister must always be a member of Parliament, and is appointed by the Governor-General who is responsible for conducting parliamentary elections, and for...
David Thompson
David Thompson (Barbadian politician)
David John Howard Thompson, QC, MP was the sixth Prime Minister of Barbados from January 2008 until his death from pancreatic cancer on 23 October 2010....
, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
The Love Campaign partnered with Barbadian designer Toni Thorne in 2009, to launch the "Martha's Smile" campaign in Jamaica. Donations from the partnership went towards the rebuilding fund for Martha's Home, a hospice for abandoned children living with HIV/AIDS, after it had been destroyed by an electrical fire By October 2010, the campaign has raised more than US$70,000.
In 2010, Marville launched The Love Campaign School Tour, which delivered the message of healthy lifestyles to children at several secondary schools under the banner "respect yaself". The Love Campaign won second place at the 2009 Miss World "Beauty with a Purpose" competition. The campaign has earned Marville several local awards, including two national youth awards: the Bayan Award and the Humanitarian Award; and the Phenomenal Woman award presented by the Girlfriends Foundation in the category of philanthropy
Philanthropy
Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...
.