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Helping Aids orphans

Bangkok Post - June 17, 2006


To commemorate World Aids Orphans' Day, the FXB Foundation (Thailand) is holding a "Living Together in Harmony" event today to tell the public about children affected by the disease and what can be done to help them.

The event, to be held at Bodin Decha School, Lat Phrao Soi 86, is open to all. Participants will have a chance to enjoy a host of activities and performances such as a "khon" masked dance by a disabled eight-year-old from Ratchabophit school, a debate, an exhibition of paintings and more.

The FXB Foundation is a unit of Francois-Xavier Bagnoud International, a non-profit organisation founded in Switzerland in 1989 by Countess Albina du Boisrouvray in memory of her son, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, a 24-year-old rescue-helicopter pilot who lost his life during a mission in Africa.

The FXB Foundation (Thailand) was officially founded in 2002 to give attention to HIV-positive people, orphans and families affected by the disease.

Supattra Kattiya-aree, the foundation's country director, said: "The Living Together in Harmony event is part of the campaign initiated by FXB Thailand to call public attention to the plight of Aids orphans and HIV/Aids-infected children in order to improve these children's psychological condition."

The event runs from 1 to 4pm.

For more information, call 02-254-6895_7.


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