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

Víctor Manuel Madera (President)
Celso González (Secretary)
Juan Carlos González (Member)
Elena Arias (Member)
Nicolás Bonilla (Member)
Juan Antonio Álvaro (Member)
Gonzalo Aldámiz-Echevarría (Member)

Meet our team

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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Javier Lasa Benito

Deputy Director

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

Programme Coordinator

Architect, committed to Africa

Lucía Chicatun

Partnerships and communication

Argentinian, specialist in public policy.

Noelia Núñez Ríos

Hospitals and Campaigns Programme Manager

Managing development cooperation programmes since 2004. 8 years in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cristina Rodrigo Ferrán

Manager of the International Training and Volunteering Programme

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

Sonia Gallego Merlo

Administration and Social Base

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

Emilie Ngono

Africa Representative and Head of the Cameroon Office

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

Marcelle Medou

Project technician

Master in Political Science. Passionate about decentralised cooperation

Georges Bindjeme

Administration in the Cameroon office

Administrator

Our social impact and awards

More than 110 health centres in Africa have benefited from our partnership
1,223,918 people can access better quality health services
20,000 people have benefited from our 8 health campaigns in Africa
986 volunteers, especially from the health sector, have collaborated with Recover
325 volunteer health campaigns carried out in Africa
3,000 people receive better medical diagnosis thanks to Telemedicine
410 people trained in the field of health and health management
180 patients from Africa operated on in Spain

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

Awards and recognitions

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.

2023 REPORT

2022 REPORT

PREVIOUS REPORTS

Audit reports and annual accounts

16%

84%

private funds

Companies, corporate and philanthropic foundations

own funds

Individual members and donations

3 out of 4 euros
go to our ongoing projects

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Our accounts are externally audited

ANNUAL ACCOUNTS 2023

PREVIOUS ANNUAL ACCOUNTS

Fundación Lealtad

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 Fundación Lealtad, including 'Clarity and Publicity of the Social Purpose' and 'Transparency in Funding'.