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Dame Claire Bertschinger DBE DL is an Anglo-Swiss nurse and activist in advocacy on behalf of suffering people in the developing world. Her work in Ethiopia in 1984 inspired Band Aid and subsequently Live Aid, the biggest relief programme ever mounted. ==Biography== The daughter of a Swiss father and British mother,〔 Bertschinger was brought up in Sheering near Bishop's Stortford on the Hertfordshire/Essex borders. Dyslexic, she could barely read or write until she was 14. After her parents got a television in the 1960s, one of the first films she watched was ''The Inn of the Sixth Happiness'' starring Ingrid Bergman playing the role of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary to China in the 1930s who is caught up in the Japanese invasion. Bertschinger thought: “I could do that. That’s what I want to do.”〔 Bertschinger graduated from Brunel University with an MSc degree in Medical Anthropology in 1997. Bertschinger is a Buddhist, practising Nichiren Buddhism. She became a member of Sōka Gakkai International in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 24 November 2012 )〕 In 2005, her book ''Moving Mountains'' was published, describing her experiences, and her spiritual motivation which led her to Buddhism. Part of the royalties from the book went to The African Children's Educational Trust, a British charity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claire Bertschinger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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