Miss Belize

Maria Jeffery

What are your interests and what do you enjoy doing the most?
My interests are reading, fishing, Sports, dancing, cooking, painting, camping gardening, support great causes involving children, traveling, modeling and nursing. I enjoy fishing, traveling and sharing nursing tips and information the most.

What is your career ambition?
To be the Head Nurse in the country of Belize and continue to model,do print world for as long as possible and always involve in charity, specially related to children and the elderly.

Describe where you were raised and what your childhood was like.
I grew up in an old colonial house in Belize City. It was near the sea and right across from our still very popular Memorial Park. My parents, two sisters, my brother and i lived in the attic area of the house, which was fairly large for an attic. My great grandmother lived on the main floor which she had taken great pride in maintaining and up-keeping the well waxed wooden floors. She would varnish her wooden furnitures on a regular basis. The house was very interesting because it was rich in history from the paintings, pictures to household items, books and furniture most of which were mahogony. Our attic area was always filled with wonderful sea breeze which the large old fashioned shutter windows allowed in. My siblings and neighborhood friends were always playing outdoors whether it was in the park or in someone's backyard. However, one of my most favorite memories of living there was waking up early in the morning when the air was the freshest and my mom would take us all out to the park for a breakfast picnic. It was wonderful

What do you want the judges to know about you?
As a nursing student I have had the opportunity of working with Belizeans adults, students and children of all ages. Working as a nurse and as an educator in areas such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity and HIV/AIDS, which are very common in my country, along with many other illneses and disorders. I do enjoy the profession I have chosen and although working at the regioanl hopital and the clinics has brought me great satisfaction, I believe I recieve even greater satisfaction in educating them, taking on a more preventative approach, which is so much needed right now. Belize is a melting pot many various cultures so. I also get the chance of getting to each one, their lifestyles, and beliefs, which I always find very interesting.

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