PRNewswire - May 7, 2001
French Delegate Minister of Health, Bernard Kouchner, will award the Insignia of Chevalier in the French National Order of the Legion d'Honneur, to Madame Albina du Boisrouvray, on Wednesday 9 May 2001 at 6:15 p.m. 8, avenue de Segur 75007 Paris (Salons A and B, 2nd floor).
Du Boisrouvray is available for interview in the US to discuss the AIDS orphans crisis and the work of the FXB Association and Foundation on the following dates:
Tuesday, May 22 - Monday, May 28 in New York City Tuesday, May 29 - Thursday, May 31 in Washington, DC.
To arrange an interview, contact Karen Conner, 202-667-2342.
A biography of Albina du Boisrouvray and an outline of the FXB Association and Foundation are attached. (More information about du Boisrouvray can be found at: http://albina.fxb.org/)
Biography of Albina du Boisrouvray:
Countess Albina du Boisrouvray, President and founder of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Association and Foundation, is known all over the world for her work and advocacy in favor of the rights of children and their needs. Ten years ago, as part of her commitment to world change, she donated more than 100 million dollars of her personal fortune to finance innovative programs relating to children with AIDS, care of children whose parents have died of AIDS, health and human rights, the promotion and protection of children, and initiatives against child labor.
She founded the Association in 1989, with a view to supporting activities that were particularly close to the heart of her son Francois-Xavier, a rescue helicopter pilot who was killed in a helicopter accident in Mali in 1986, at the age of 24 years.
In 1992, Albina du Boisrouvray founded the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, created a professorship and a program, and funded study scholarships and the construction of a building. She has also endowed Francois-Xavier Bagnoud professorships in pediatric AIDS research and a medical care center for HIV-positive children at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark. To this she added the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud International Pediatric HIV Training Program, which teaches health workers who come from all over the world. The Association also maintains Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Homes offering "tender loving care" to abandoned and sick children, who are often infected with the HIV virus, in Thailand, Washington DC, Colombia and Brazil.
Albina du Boisrouvray is helping thousands of orphans in Rwanda and Uganda, where she has launched programs to provide income-generating activities for the children and their foster families.
In India, she funds education and advisory activities in the field of HIV and AIDS, blood testing programs, the rehabilitation of prostitutes, and the care of orphans and the children of prostitutes.
In 1985, she received the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, having been the first cinema producer to be decorated with the National Order of Merit.
In 1999, she was awarded a special prize at the Conference on World Strategies for the Prevention of the Transmission of HIV from Mother to Child in Montreal for her "Response to the AIDS orphans crisis".
In May 1993, the University of Michigan awarded her the title of Doctor of Humane Letters for her support for "international humanitarian initiatives impacting future generations."
In October 1996, she was made a John Harvard Fellow by Harvard University.
Biographic Milestones:
1968 Assistant producer at Pathe
1971 Creation of Albina Productions
1980 Vice-president of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival Presidency of the SEGH (a Swiss hotel chain, of which she is still President)
1985 President of the jury at the Chamrousse festival
1986 Death of her son Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, aged 24, in a helicopter accident at the Paris-Dakar rally. Worked together with Medecins du Monde
1989 Creation of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation and Association
1992 Creation of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Palliative Home Care Center at Sion (Switzerland)
1997 Establishment of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Palliative Home Care Center in Paris
Awards and Degrees:
* Chevalier des Arts et Lettres
* Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite
* Doctor of Humane Letters (University of Michigan)
* John Harvard Fellow (Harvard University)
Summary of the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud:
The Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud originated through the wish of Francois-Xavier's parents, Countess Albina du Boisrouvray and Bruno Bagnoud, his stepfather and close friends, to perpetuate the radiance, generosity and warm interest in others of this young pilot who lost his life in an accident on 14 January 1986 while on a helicopter mission in the Mali desert.
The Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud has generated numerous humanitarian activities in Europe, the United States, Africa, Latin America and Asia, concerned above all with the health and human rights of the people, with particular emphasis on the children.
As such, alone or in partnership with local organizations, the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud initiates and supports programs designed for the suffering and the most destitute, victims of disease or the cruelty of their fellow humans.
It operates or supports training, education, information and research activities, speaks out to break the silence, to make ideas materialize and to raise the awareness of local and international public opinion.
Ever since its creation, the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Association has been resolutely engaged in the struggle against AIDS and helping AIDS orphans: through research, training and information, and action on the ground together with the men, women and children afflicted with the disease.
SOURCE Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Web Site: http://www.fxb.org http://albina.fxb.org
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