BARBARA BUSH - BUILDING HER OWN LEGACY AND PATH !

During the eight years her father, George W. Bush, was President, Barbara might have said the same for the stewards of Air Force One. While her twin sister, Jenna, has made a splash as a correspondent for NBC's Today, this more private sister has been quietly building Global Health Corps (GHC). is is an idea that she and partner, Dave Ryan, who had worked for a student-run AIDS nonprofit, launched in 2008 to fund talented young professionals who would spend a year bringing their expertise from fields such as communications, business, finance and IT to seemingly intractable problems like infant mortality or malnutrition. Bush's group is attracting thousands of young peple to the cause. Bush brought on corporate funders like EXXON Mobil, and Bank of America, but also familial ones: dad annually sponsors a $25,000 fellowship as Christmas gift to her mother, Laura. There was a time when Barbara, who tinkered with a sewing machine as a girl and interned with fashion's Lela Rose in college, fancied a career in design. That changed on a 2003 White House trip to africa, during the summer before her senior year at Yale, when she met a Ugandan girl dying of AIDS. The girl was so sick only because she was born somewhere that didn't have the drugs she needed. Then, Barbara, as a 27 year-old woman, after working in a South African children's hospital, along with Ryan wrote the GHC's business plan over a weekend. And here they are, successful and full of energy and enthusiasm to help vulnerable children at vulnerable places in our World and mostly in Africa.