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About us

Recover Foundation has been carrying out health cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2007

Vision, mission and values

Vision

We envision a world where all people in Africa have access to decent, quality healthcare

Mission

Strengthening the capacities of the health centres with which we collaborate, as well as their staff, so that, in a sustainable way, they can offer dignified and quality health care to people with few resources in Africa.

Values

Professionalism

We work with ethical principles and professional rigour, oriented towards achieving results that have a positive impact on people's lives.

Sustainability

We provide medium-term support until the centres with which we collaborate are sustainable and self-sufficient, without generating dependency.

Proximity

We want all the entities and people we collaborate with to feel close to us and to communicate openly with us.

Transparency

We guarantee the economic traceability of the aid and rigorous accountability. We have the "Donate with Confidence" seal of the Fundación Lealtad.

Who we are

We are a secular, independent, non-profit organisation that has been providing health cooperation in Africa since 2007. Our headquarters are in Madrid and we have a regional office in Cameroon with our own local team.

Together with our partners and individual or corporate collaborators, we address our commitment to improving healthcare for millions of people, thanks to a team of professionals specialised in development cooperation, and more than 70 volunteers , mainly healthcare and hospital management professionals.

The Recover Foundation is registered in public records and declared a public utility as a development cooperation foundation.

Our history

The Recover Foundation was established in Spain on 6 November 2006 thanks to the initiative of a group of professionals linked to the health sector, concerned about healthcare in the most disadvantaged countries, especially in Africa, where there are major deficiencies in the provision of health services with certain guarantees and at an affordable price. With this objective in mind, in October 2007, we began our work as a foundation specialising in health in Africa.

Our Board of Trustees

Meet our team

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Marta Marañón Medina

General Manager

20 years in the Third Sector. Expert in evaluation and measurement of social impact. Top 100 women leaders in Spain
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Marta Marañón Medina

General Manager

20 years in the Third Sector. Expert in evaluation and measurement of social impact. Top 100 women leaders in Spain
>> Learn more about our director

Javier Lasa Benito

Attached to address. Administration and Support

Economist by profession, with almost 30 years of experience in the sector. "Since my youth I have felt the need to dedicate part of my time to other people".

Nery Villalobos

Program Coordinator. Responsible for Campaigns and Telemedicine

Architect, committed to Africa

Leticia Urquiza Froix

Manager of the Strengthening Health Centers in Africa program

Specialist in Global Health. More than 8 years of experience managing development cooperation programmes in Africa.

Sonia Gallego Merlo

Administrative support and social base

From Madrid, full of enthusiasm to contribute and be of help to others

Cristina Rodrigo Ferrán

Manager of the Volunteering, Training and Patients program

Translator and interpreter. More than 10 years of experience in international cooperation in sub-Saharan African countries

Denise Bundt

Support for the program area

German, committed to a fairer future. Training in International Cooperation for Development and a great desire to contribute.

Emilie Ngono

Representative for Africa and responsible for the Cameroon Program

14 years of experience in health management. Committed to improving health

Marcelle Medou

Project technician

Master in Political Science. Passionate about decentralised cooperation

Yves Merlin Amougou

Support for the Cameroon Program

A professional committed to international cooperation, humanitarian action and sustainable development, motivated by the desire to improve the living conditions of populations through the implementation of innovative and supportive territorial engineering.

Émile Tchoungang

Logistics driver

Logistics driver with 20 years of experience in transportation and logistics. Professional, rigorous, and reliable in managing operations and travel arrangements.

Julienne Dawaka Kemo

Accountant Administrator

Professional and empathetic accountant, passionate about accounting and committed to working seriously and professionally in a humanitarian context.

Our social impact and awards

We contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030

Awards and recognitions

Transparency and good governance

Activity reports

Every year we publish our Activity Report as a tool for accountability and transparency and as a presentation of our work to our partners, collaborators, and society in general.

2025 REPORT

2024 REPORT

PREVIOUS REPORTS

Audit reports and annual accounts

20%

8%

72%

private funds

Companies, corporate and philanthropic foundations

own funds

Individual members and donations

public funds

+ 8 out of 10 euros
go to our ongoing projects

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20%

72%

8%

private funds

Companies, corporate and philanthropic foundations

own funds

Individual members and donations

public funds

+ 8 out of 10 euros
go to our ongoing projects

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The accounts of Fundación Recover are subject to annual audit. The audit reports have been issued without any reservations.

Loyalty Foundation

We have the "Donate with Confidence" seal.

This seal identifies Fundación Recover as an NGO that fully complies with the 9 Principles of Transparency and Good Practices required by Loyalty Foundation, including 'Clarity and Publicity of the Social Purpose' and 'Transparency in Funding'.

Mauritania

2.6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

From 2026

1 health centre supported

Cardiovascular Risk Campaign and Telemedicine

Incidence in 6,000 people

Namibia

5.5 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

From 2026

2 healthcare centres supported

Equipment, maternal and child health, and Telemedicine

Incidence in 7,000 people

Namibian Village

Sahrawi refugee camps

Population > 200,000

0.5 Doctors/1000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

From 2025

2 health centres supported

Telemedicine, infrastructures

Incidence in 13,000 people

Sahrawi camps - kindergarten

Spain

6.21 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

Resource 7

1,024 health and management volunteers, and non-health volunteers, offering their expertise

8 partner hospitals in the country

Resource 9

More than 90 companies/entities have collaborated with their projects

Tanzania

0,1 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Operating theatre and other equipment, volunteering, telemedicine

Incidence in 10,140 people

Uganda

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

1 health centre supported

Telemedicine

Uganda context photo

South Sudan

0,4 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

2 health centres supported

Ophthalmology campaigns

Incidence in 15,000 people

Mobile Clinic H Yambio South Sudan

Republic of Chad

0,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Grants for laboratory training and equipment, nutrition unit and patient intervention in Spain

Incidence in 10,000 people

Image source: CC BY 2.0, Link

Equatorial Guinea

3,5 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

3 health centres supported

Telemedicine

Incidence in 1,000 people

Guinea Ecautorial context photo

Cameroon

1,24 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

71 health centres supported

Resource 10

Hospital management, electricity, water and sanitation infrastructure, health campaigns (child malnutrition, cervical cancer, cardiovascular risk, malaria, sickle cell disease), equipment (operating theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy equipment, X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, electrocardiograms, incubators, dental chairs, ambulances, etc.), training scholarships in Spain and Africa, telemedicine, intervention of 63 patients in Spain.

Incidence in 998,218 people

cameroon

Burundi

0,65 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2024

1 health centres supported

Reference anatomical pathology laboratory

Incidence in 78,031 people

Democratic Republic of Congo

3,7 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

7 health centres supported

Training in Spain, laboratory equipment, drinking water, photovoltaic energy and telemedicine

Incidence in 30,500 people

congo

Photo by Russell Watkins, Department for International Development

Burkina Faso

1 Doctor/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

3 health centres supported

Intervention for cardiac patients in Spain, telemedicine

Incidence in 60,000 people

Pielá - water well - Burkina Faso

Côte d'Ivoire

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

23 health centres supported

Telemedicine, hospital management, maternal and child health, mental health, sickle cell disease, diabetes

Incidence in 148,000 people

côte d'ivoire context

Benin

0,62 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

2 health centres intervened

Maternity infrastructure, drinking water, energy, ultrasound equipment, management

Incidence in 20,850 people

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