Anna Ferrer (maiden name Essex) is the president of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation (FVF) and executive director of the FVF in India. [1] [2] FVF has helped 3.5 million Indians out of poverty, focusing on women. [3] [4]
She was born in Britain on April 10, 1947. She moved to India in the 1960s where she became a reporter for the Current weekly. While working for the paper, she interviewed the civil rights leader Vicente Ferrer Moncho and eventually joined the Citizens for Justice Committee which he started. They married in April 1970 and had three children, Tara, Moncho and Yamuna. [5] Together, in 1969, they started the Vincent Ferrer Foundation. [6] She and her husband worked together, building and developing the organization until his death ten years ago, when she took over. [7] She works to improve the situation of Indian women and to help them to achieve positions of responsibility. [5] [8]
Ignacio Ellacuría was a Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian who worked as a professor and rector at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA), a Jesuit university in El Salvador founded in 1965. He and several other Jesuits and two others were assassinated by Salvadoran soldiers in the closing years of the Salvadoran Civil War.
Xavier Zubiri was a Spanish philosopher.
Francisco León Barrios, known as Paco León is a Spanish actor, producer, director, screenwriter and activist.
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Marta Etura Palenzuela is a Spanish film and television actress. She is known for Your Next Life (2004), Cell 211 (2009), Sleep Tight (2011), and The Invisible Guardian (2017).
Vicente Ferrer Moncho was a Jesuit missionary who spent his life working to improve the lives of the poor in the mission he founded in Southern India. Today the Vicente Ferrer Foundation carries out humanitarian projects in Andhra Pradesh, bringing aid to over 2.5 million poor people.
Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto is a Spanish hyperrealist painter who specialises in historical military paintings that portray different eras of the Spanish Armed Forces through hyperrealistic naturalism. On January 11, 2022, he presented the Ferrer-Dalmau Foundation with the aim of promoting defense culture through history and art.
Jorge Muscia is a plastic artist and ‘fileteado’ instructor with over 30 years of experience in his field. Muscia, also known as the Fileteador of Tango, distinguishes himself for being a force in the revival of this old style of painting and for being a renowned instructor and promoter of the art of the filete in Argentina and the world.
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María de los Ángeles Rozalén Ortuño known professionally as Rozalén is a Spanish singer and songwriter.
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The Cueva de Bedmar is an archaeological site ranging from the Middle Paleolithic to the Neolithic period placed at Mágina mountain range natural park, nearby the town of Bedmar, in the province of Jaén in Spain.
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