Operation Yellow Coins (
French
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: ''Opération Pièces jaunes'') is a
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
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foundation with the goal of improving the conditions of hospitalized children and adolescents. It was created in 1989 by professor Claude Griscelli and backed by the Fondation des Hôpitaux. One of the foundation's main supporters is the former
first lady of France
Spouses and partners of the president of France often play a protocol role at the Élysée Palace and during official visits, though they possess no official title. Brigitte Macron is the spouse of the current president, Emmanuel Macron, who took ...
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Bernadette Chirac
Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac ( Chodron de Courcel; born 18 May 1933) is a French politician and the widow of the former president Jacques Chirac.
She and Chirac met as students at Sciences Po, and were married on 16 March 1956. They had t ...
, who oversaw its fundraising national campaigns from 1994 to 2019. In Operation Yellow Coins' first 30 years, it raised 96 million euros from numerous public and private entities and institutions.
See also
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List of children's hospitals
This is a list of children's hospitals, hospitals that specialize in pediatrics.
A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to children and adolescents. Most children's hospitals can serve people from birth up to t ...
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Pediatrics
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...
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Child life specialist
Child life specialists are pediatric health care professionals who work with children and families in hospitals and other settings to help them cope with the challenges of hospitalization, illness, and disability. They provide children with age-app ...
External links
Official website
References
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Pediatric organizations
Children's hospitals in France
Health care in France
Organizations established in 1989
1989 establishments in France