In this photo released by the Miss Universe 2008 organization, Athina James, Miss Antigua & Barbuda 2008, left; Putri Raemawasti, Miss Indonesia 2008, front 2nd left, and Madina Taher, Miss Germany 2008, holding camera at centre, visit the children of the SOS Village in Hanoi.

Madina Taher is 21 years old and was born in Germany in the city of Halstenbek near Hamburgshe is a design student and she is from an Afghan family.