Zilda Arns
Zilda Arns Neumann (born August 25, 1934 in Forquilhinha , Santa Catarina , Brazil ; † January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) was a Brazilian doctor. She was president of the Pastoral da Criança , the children's pastoral care of the Catholic Church in Brazil.
Life
Zilda Arns was born to the German immigrant couple Gabriel Arns (1890–1965) and Helene Steiner (1894–1974) from the Moselle region and had twelve siblings. One of her brothers was the Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo , Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns OFM (1921-2016) , who retired in April 1998 .
Zilda Arns lived in Curitiba , Paraná state , and worked there as a pediatrician at the Cezar Pernetta Children's Hospital. Later she was director of the Paraná State Mother and Child Department. Together with the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) of the World Health Organization (WHO), she created authoritative standards for maternal and child health care .
In 1980, she became involved at the request of the Holy See in Rome to fight a polio - epidemic in União da Vitória and led coverage of the polio vaccine Sabin one.
In 1982 she founded together with Geraldo Majella Agnelo , the then Archbishop of Londrina, on behalf of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) the "Pastoral da Criança" as a measure against the high child mortality in Brazil. With 250,000 volunteers, 1.9 million women and children under six and 1.4 million poor families in 4,063 communities in Brazil are cared for. In 2005 she was commissioned by the CNBB (Brazilian Bishops' Conference) to found a corresponding facility for senior citizens, which currently takes care of 129,000 elderly people with 14,000 volunteers. It made pastoral care the largest volunteer organization in Brazil.
She was considered the best-known woman in Brazil and has been awarded national and international prizes and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times .
On December 26, 1959, she married Aloysio Bruno Neumann (1931–1978), with whom she had four sons and two daughters. The firstborn son, Marcelo Arns Neumann, died three days after the birth. Four of the other five children are still alive today.
Zilda Arns, who was visiting the organization in Haiti, died in the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010.
Honors and awards (selection)
- Prêmio Internacional em Administração Sanitária (OPAS, 1994)
- Prêmio Humanitário (Lions Club Internacional, 1997)
- Personalidade Brasileira de Destaque no Trabalho em Prol da Saúde da Criança (Unicef, 1988)
- Prêmio Direitos Humanos (USP, 2000)
- Heroína da Saúde Pública das Américas (OPAS, 2002)
- Diploma Bertha Lutz (2005)
- Opus Prize (2006)
- Woodrow Wilson Prize from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (2007)
- Honorary doctorates from the universities: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná , Universidade Federal do Paraná , Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense do Criciúma , Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina .
- Honorary citizenship of 10 countries and 35 counties
Web links
- Public Health Heroes: Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann
- During the earthquake in Haiti, the founder of the Pastoral da Criança - children's pastoral care, Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann, lost her life.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Zilda Arns Neumann dies in an earthquake in Haiti"
- ^ "Pope asks for help for Haiti - Archbishop among the dead" ( Memento of January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Vatican Radio , January 13, 2010
- ^ "Brazil: Nobel Prize for Zilda Arns?" , Vatican Radio , January 17, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arns, Zilda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arns Neumann, Zilda (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forquilhinha , Santa Catarina , Brazil |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 2010 |
| Place of death | Port-au-Prince , Haiti |