Audrey Jacobs Foundation

The Audrey Jacobs Foundation was created in memory of Audrey Jacobs, a 21-year-old medical student who died in Kathmandu, Nepal, on August 29, 2010, while volunteering in a hospital during her summer vacation.

Our Foundation is actively involved in humanitarian, educational and medical projects in Nepal. We work mainly with local NGOs or non-profit organizations, either already in existence or established as a result of our joint initiatives.

The Audrey Jacobs Foundation is based in Switzerland and Belgium. It has no political or religious affiliations. It is recognized as a non-profit organization. Donations go entirely to the various projects in Nepal.

Our logo

In the bottom of an old pond lived some grubs who could not understand why none of their groups ever came back after crawling up the stems of the lilies to the top of the water. They promised each other that the next one who was called to make the upward climb would return and tell what happened to him. Soon one of them felt an urgent impulse to seek the surface; he rested himself on the top of a lily pad and went through a glorious transformation, which made him a dragonfly with beautiful wings. In vain, he tried to keep his promise. Flying back and forth over the pond, he peered down at his friends below. Then he realized that even if they could see him they would not recognize such a radiant creature as one of their number.
The fact that we cannot see our friends or communicate with them after the transformation, which we call death, is no proof that they cease to exist.

— Walter Dudley Cavert

Our board

President:	Mrs Astrid Beseler, mother of Audrey, Marc and Cédric
Vice-President:	M. Marc Jacobs
Members:	M. Cédric Jacobs Me Laurent Besso M. Matthieu Wirtz