Tina KIEFFER
Founder and President of Toutes à l'École
In 1978, she started out as an intern at Cosmopolitan magazine, where she remained for eleven years. In 1992, she presented society debates on TF1 and LCI, before deciding in 1997 to return to print media, founding DS Magazine, which sold 300,000 copies. Two years later, she took over the management of Marie Claire magazine.
In 2006, following a trip to Cambodia where she met an orphan who would become her fifth child, Tina Kieffer founded the NGO Toutes à l'école. She launched the La Rose Marie Claire media campaign to finance the construction a school for girls in Cambodia, Happy Chandara. In 2009, she decided to leave Marie Claire and the media world to devote herself entirely to Toutes à l'école. Today, the Happy Chandara campus provides schooling from kindergarten through to the end of secondary school, and supports 1,700 girls and young women from poverty-stricken backgrounds. Tina Kieffer divides her time between fund-raising in France and managing her campus in Cambodia.
In May 2019, Tina Kieffer returns to writing, publishing Une déflagration d'amour, published by Robert Laffont. It tells the story of how she met her daughter Chandara in Cambodia in 2005, her struggle to adopt her and the genesis of the Happy Chandara school.
