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Countess Albina du Boisrouvray (born 2 July 1939) is a former journalist and film producer who has become a global philanthropist and social entrepreneur working with AIDS victims and impoverished communities around the world.
Albina du Boisrouvray est une journaliste et productrice française, née le 2 juillet 1941 à Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Jul 25, 2014 · Du Boisrouvray, who is the granddaughter of the Bolivian industrialist Simon Patino, invested $100m – nearly everything she had – to set up FXB, named in memory of her only child...
In 1993 Albina du Boisrouvray founded and endowed the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Her goal was to show the harmful effects of human rights violations on children and to provide them with protection by furthering the health and human rights vision of the center’s first director Jonathan Mann.
Journalist, author and film producer, Albina du Boisrouvray suffered a personal tragedy in 1986: the death of her only child, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, a helicopter rescue pilot, during a mission in Mali.
The founding of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, in 1993, was the product of the remarkable partnership of Albina du Boisrouvray and its first director Dr. Jonathan Mann. Albina had heard about Mann’s work at the World Health Organization.
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Albina du Boisrouvray: The main innovation of our FXB approach, initiated in 1991, is the GIFT of seed capital - in lieu of a loan.
