Chancé Chantele Gatoro is a Congolese

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titleholder who was chosen as

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2014 that gives her the right to represent

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at Miss Earth 2014 in November..

Biography

Early years

Chancè is studying at

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taking up pre-law major with a minor in

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. She moved to the

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when she was 11 years old, after living in a refugee camp called Emvepi in

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for 3 years. Chancè believes that "Education is freedom," and was determined to gain her freedom, even if it meant walking 2 hours to school every morning, cleaning people's homes to make enough money to pay for school supplies, and putting her life in danger. Through her own struggle, education has become Chancè’s main focus. She has dedicated her platform in the pageant to Educate the Future of Congo Foundation.

Miss Earth 2014

As being chosen as

, Chancé Chantele Gatoro will fly to the

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in November to compete with almost 100 other candidates to be

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's successor as

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. To her, winning

will bring her one step closer to fulfilling her dream of making the earth a better and safer place to live. However, as the

season came to rise, she was not able to compete for undisclosed reason.

References

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