Eunice Weaver
Brazilian philanthropist
Eunice de Sousa Gabbi Weaver (September 18, 1902 – December 9, 1969) was a Brazilian philanthropist. She was a leader of leprosy charities in Brazil from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Early life
Eunice de Sousa Gabbi was born on a coffee farm in São Manoel, the daughter of Henrique Gabbi and Leopoldina Gabbi. Her father was an immigrant from Italy. Eunice Gabbi attended school in Uruguaiana. She trained to be a teacher in São Paulo.
Career
In 1929, Weaver accompanied her husband when he served as a faculty member of the "Floating University of North America", an educational program based in an ocean liner while it traveled around the world. She visited over forty countries, and interviewed Mahatma Gandhi. She studied provisions for leprosy patients along the way, and upon her return to Brazil, she founded the Sociedade de Assistência aos Lázaros (Lazarus Assistance Society), and was president of the Federation of Societies for Assistance to Lepers and for Control of Leprosy, from 1932 until her death in 1969.
Her work gained official support from the Brazilian government in 1935.
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