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ETHICAL COMMITMENT, REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
PROJECTS
Since 2022, FXB USA has filled a gap in climate education and responded to a critical need by providing young people around the world with the tools and resources to act.
In parallel, FXB USA also serves as a resource and provides training for FXB teams, giving them the tools needed to build resilience to climate change in the vulnerable communities with which FXB engages.
Context
At the global level, 59 per cent of young people and young adults say they are very or extremely concerned about the consequences of climate change. However, only 53 per cent of national education programs refer to climate change.
FXB Climate Advocates
The FXB Climate Advocates program fills a gap in climate education by providing young people with the tools they need to act against its causes.
The aim is to raise awareness of climate solutions and action among young people around the world in three phases, encouraging them to channel their hopes and optimism to make concrete changes in their communities.
Learning: Participants follow an online program, in English and French, including interactive sessions on topics such as climate policy, climate science, lobbying, digital narrative, health, renewable energy and sustainable consumption.
Connection: Participants benefit from the lessons of renowned experts, including Harvard, New York University, Drawdown and Citizens' Climate Lobby. FXB Climate Advocates are also represented in major events, such as COP meetings.
Action: Participants receive expert support to initiate their own climate action projects. They are also trained to promote them at gatherings and conferences on climate change.
In addition, FXB USA trains team members in response countries to enable them to integrate resilience and adaptation to climate change impacts into their operations. This approach aims to strengthen the capacity of marginalized communities to respond disproportionately to environmental challenges by providing them with concrete tools to anticipate and mitigate these impacts.
Our Impact
say they have acquired new skills such as lobbying, gained confidence to engage in climate action and benefited from the global network available to them.
have already been launched by these young climate advocates, covering areas such as waste management, community education, sustainable agriculture or green technology.
climate defenders have already been able to participate in this innovative training.
Join the global struggle
Young people are at the forefront of social change and, in the context of the current climate crisis, young activists hope that real change is possible. Our Climate Advocates provide young climate activists with knowledge and tools to mobilize climate action at the local, national and international levels.
THE FIRST FXB FUNDING IN THE USA
- PIONARY COMMITMENT AGAINST PEDIATRIC AND PERINATAL HIV : In 1997, a family care centre dedicated to HIV, infectious diseases and immunological disorders was founded at the University of New Jersey by James Oleske and Mary Boland. In the early 1990s, the first FXB Foundation, founded and chaired by Albina du Boisrouvray, provided generous funding to improve local clinical services and broaden the centre's expertise in the face of the rise of the HIV pandemic. In recognition of this support, the institution was renamed Centre François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) and launched the International Training Program (FXB-PFI) in the wake. This pioneering program was one of the first to train health care providers from around the world in the care of pregnant women infected with HIV, as well as infants and children affected by perinatal transmission. The FXB Foundation also launched the FXB Chair in Pediatric Allergies and Infectious Diseases, awarded to Dr. James Oleske. In 1996, a second chair in community paediatric nursing was established.
- A PIONARY UNIVERSITY CENTRE : The François-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University was founded and endowed in 1993 by Albina du Boisrouvray, in partnership with its first director, Dr Jonathan Mann. The latter, a pioneer in the fight against AIDS and a strong advocate of the link between health and human rights, shared with Albina the same vision: protecting the most vulnerable, especially children. As the first academic centre dedicated exclusively to the links between health and human rights, the FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights takes an interdisciplinary approach to promoting the equity and dignity of populations oppressed by racism, poverty and stigmatization, nationally and internationally. It brings together a broad network of academics, educators, elected officials, government agencies, NGOs and policy makers to demonstrate the impact of human rights violations, especially on children.
- THE AREA OF AEROSPATIAL : In 1989, the first FXB Foundation decided to finance the construction of a new aerospace and aeronautics building on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where François-Xavier had completed his engineering studies: the FXB Building. With scholarships, the building will also house research laboratories, classrooms, offices, a conference room and a library, contributing to the development of knowledge and training of future generations of professionals in the field. Located southeast of the FXB Building, the Wave Field is a memorial dedicated to François-Xavier Bagnoud and is a real art work. This earth sculpture, representing a field of waves, changes over the course of the day due to variations of light and shadows. It was designed and directed by Maya Lin, a renowned artist who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., as well as the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Over the years, other initiatives have been undertaken, such as the creation of the FXB Flight Institute or the establishment of the FXB Aerospace Prizes.