With Brangelina and the Dalai Lama as Co-Workers, Port Chester Woman Leads Children's Charity
Heather Paul, CEO of SOS Children's Villages, works closely with celebrities like Angelina Jolie to provide aid to orphaned and abandoned children around the world.
Most people get a job when they graduate from school. Heather Paul went to live among Fillipino tribesmen. After graduating from Port Chester High School and earning an American literature degree in college, Paul moved to the Phillipines in the late 1960s. She spent three years traveling the island with an anthropologist, visiting and studying tribal minorities. "You were always on coal trains, and up in the mountains in a Jeep in the rice terraces," she said. "We weren't exactly staying at the Ritz-Carlton." More than four decades later, the Port Chester native never forgets the developing world. As CEO of SOS Children's Villages in the U.S., Paul leads domestic efforts to help orphaned and abused kids. Because of the work she does in the…
