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The world’s most popular sporting event — and the reason global productivity declines for several weeks every four years — soccer’s World Cup kicks off this month in South Africa. Stacie Scott Turner (MBA ’96) and her charitable initiative, Extra-Ordinary Life (XOL), plan to join the fun in a special way: Fifteen girls from Washington, D.C., all living in foster care, will travel to South Africa for what XOL hopes will be a life-altering experience. As guests of South Africa’s First Family, the girls will connect with South African youngsters in foster care and orphanages to help raise international awareness about orphan issues.
Turner, herself adopted out of Washington’s foster care system, worked at Procter & Gamble and BET Networks before becoming a successful entrepreneur. “My goal is to show teenage girls that the world is their oyster,” she said. “Foster kids just want an ‘ordinary’ life. If we can give them that and more, they’ll have a chance at an extraordinary life.”
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