<p><strong>The woman</strong><br />To mark this 15th anniversary, Clarins has chosen to honor a modern day heroine who has devoted her life to helping the most deprived children.<br />For this special occasion, Clarins is paying tribute to an emblematic figure, Lisa Lovatt-Smith, who embodies the very essence of this award, all its previous winners and all their different struggles.<br />For 10 years, this Englishwoman who was born in Barcelona and lived in Paris before giving up her jet-setting lifestyle, has been fighting to give abandoned and orphaned children in Ghana a real family, to save them from the poverty and hardship of orphanage life.</p><p><strong>Her fight: "Orphan Aid Africa"</strong><br />At 35, at the height of her career, Lisa gave it all up. Two weeks after her return from Africa, she sold everything she owned to create the Orphan Aid Africa foundation and open an orphanage. Her goal: to help these abandoned children and give them a real family so they would not have to grow up in some institution without love or hope. A crazy idea? No. Lisa had her feet firmly on the ground and was able to put aside her emotions to achieve her goals. "I sold everything, cut all emotional ties and opened an orphanage".</p>