Isabel Allende Foundation
Allende started the Isabel Allende Foundation on December 9 ,1996 to pay tribute to her daughter,Paula Frias Allende who experienced a coma after complications of a disease called porphyia which led to her hospitalization and eventually her untimely death.Paula was 28 years old when she died. The foundation is "dedicated to supporting programs that promote and preserve the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected."