Lotti Latrous
Liselotte "Lotti" Latrous (* 1953 in Dielsdorf ) is a Swiss development worker .
Life
Lotti Latrous grew up in Regensberg with two siblings. After a financial year in Zurich, the 17-year-old after went Geneva to learn French . After three months, she met Aziz Latrous, who would later become Nestlé director, in a café . They married and have three children together (Selim, Sonia and Sara). Through her husband's work, she and her three children traveled all over the world and eventually settled in Abidjan , the capital of Ivory Coast .
After two years she started working in a hospital. The misery she encountered prompted her to build her own outpatient clinic in Adjouffou . In 2002 she realized another project and from then on also headed a death hospital. In February 2006 she opened a home for mothers and children.
In 2002 Lotti Latrous was honored with the Adele Duttweiler Prize, and in January 2005 she was voted Swiss Woman of the Year 2004 in her home country . In 2009 she received the Elisabeth Norgall Prize .
In June 2012, the Lotti Latrous Foundation announced that Lotti Latrous would be giving up the management of its projects in Ivory Coast for health reasons. She returned to Switzerland to treat her lung problems and not risk further deterioration in her lung function . She remains the foundation president.
In 2014 Lotti Latrous partially returned to her slum projects in Adjouffou. She is allowed to do her work for one month every two months. In between, she always needs time off in Switzerland so as not to stress her health too much.
The slums in Abidjan had to give way to an airport, so they moved their centers to Grand-Bassam . It opened in 2017. In 2019 she published her autobiography .
literature
- Gabriella Baumann-von Arx : Lotti, La Blanche - a Swiss woman in the slums of Abidjan . Werd, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85932-461-6 .
- Gabriella Baumann-von Arx: Madame Lotti. In the Abidjan slum, only love counts . Wörterseh, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-033-00245-5 .
- Gabriella Baumann-von Arx: Lotti Latrous. Fear and hope in the slum of Abidjan . Wörterseh, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523213-5-5 .
- Lotti Latrous: What was. What is. What matters. My somewhat crazy life. Wörterseh, 2019, ISBN 978-3-03763-110-2 .
Movie
- Egoïste: Lotti Latrous in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stephan Anspichler: Egoïste. Movie about Lotti Latrous, 2007.
- Lotti Latrous. Strong woman between cultures and fronts. In: Berg und Geist , 3sat , 2005.
- Hanspeter Bäni: Oasis in misery. Lotti Latrous in the Abidjan slum. SRF 1 , DOK , 2009 (41 min).
- Lotti Latrous - An angel from Switzerland. In: Gesundheitheute , SRF 1 , 2012 (24 min).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Latrous, Liselotte called Lotti. In: moneyhouse.ch , SHAB 5/2005 - January 7, 2005.
- ↑ Sarah Rüegger: Madame Lotti has to turn her back on Africa. ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Tages-Anzeiger from 11./12. June 2012.
- ↑ Sarah Rüegger: "I suppressed it and suppressed it". ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Tages-Anzeiger from June 14, 2012.
- ↑ Lotti Latrous (60) is back in Africa despite severe pulmonary tuberculosis - where do you get the strength to help from? . In: Blick , March 11, 2014
- ↑ Lotti Latrous after 18 years of service in Africa - “My husband and my children missed out ” , Interview with Lotti Latrous im Blick, published on January 9, 2016
- ↑ houseofswitzerland.org
- ↑ lottilatrous.ch
- ↑ Interview December 2019
- ↑ bluewin.ch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Latrous, Lotti |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Latrous, Liselotte (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss founder of an outpatient clinic and a death hospital |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dielsdorf , Switzerland |