Albina Du Boisrouvray - Awards

Awards

• On June 11th 2009, Albina du Boisrouvray received the BNP Paribas Jury's Special Prize.
• On April 8th 2009, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, presented Albina du Boisrouvray with the insignia of Officer in l'Ordre National du Mérite. The President honored Albina and her work, saying "Your NGO is a model throughout the world. You are a woman involved. Your solidarity is exemplary and that is why the Republic will distinguish you." She is the first film producer to be awarded L’Ordre National du Mérite.
• In 2007, the French Fédération nationale des Clubs Convergences gave her an award for her activities on behalf of orphans and vulnerable children affected by AIDS in the world.
• On July 12, 2004, Albina du Boisrouvray, received the Thai Komol Keemthong Foundation Award of Outstanding Personality for the Year 2004.
• In November 2003, Albina du Boisrouvray received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 4th International Conference on AIDS in India, in recognition for the projects that she initiated in the 35 States and Territories of India.
• She was awarded the 2002 North-South Prize by the Council of Europe.
• An asteroid has been named after her, 8005 Albinadubois.
• Her philanthropy and humanitarian efforts earned her a knighthood of the Legion d'Honneur in 2001.
• In 2001, Harvard students presented her with the “Harvard Project for International Health and Development Award”.
• She received a Special Recognition Award for “Responding to the HIV/AIDS Orphan crisis” at the second conference on Global Strategies for the prevention of HIV transmission from mothers to infants in Montreal, in September 1999.
• She was made a “John Harvard Fellow” by Harvard University in 1996.
• In 1993, the University of Michigan conferred upon her a “Doctor of Humane Letters Degree”.
• She was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 1985.
• Because of the innovative cost-effective projects that she formulated and directed within FXB, she was selected a member of the Social Entrepreneurs Group of the Schwab Foundation.