Miss Connecticut, Bristol resident Brittany Decker, is preparing to return to Haiti and continue her aid work.
Thursday night, at the New England Carousel Museum, Decker presented a documentary outlining her platform, "One World: Global Awareness for Global Prosperity."
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Self-produced for a mass communications class, the documentary highlighted Decker's previous trip to Haiti after the dramatic earthquake that recently affected the country.
Decker worked with an orphanage sponsored by the group Christian Haitian Outreach and she will return to the same location in September.
The event at the museum was the first fundraiser for Decker's trip.
With the money she raises, Decker and her team will help purchase an irrigation system for the orphanage's garden which was built during Decker's previous trip.
Prior to showing the film, Decker spoke about her platform. She wanted to bring perspective to Americans about what the conditions for human beings are like in third-world countries.
Decker said her original idea for the platform came after visiting Cambodia and seeing many children begging in the streets and people drinking from and swimming in the dirty Mekong River.
"We always want, want, want," Decker said, considering that even in relatively weak economic times, Americans still have it better than most of the world.
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SOURCE: The Bristol Press
