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Award Ceremony of the XXI Ordesa Grants

In this call, the Ordesa Foundation has donated €350,000 to contribute to the development of several projects aimed at improving the quality of life, health and nutrition of the most vulnerable children.

The act of delivery These grants were awarded at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia, and were attended by Carme Bertral, Secretary of Health Care and Participation of the Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya; Lluïsa Moret, Mayor of Sant Boi de Llobregat and President of the Diputación de Barcelona; Jaume Casas, former President of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia; and Dr. Josep Maria Ventura, patron of the Ordesa Foundation.

Isolda Ventura, president of the Ordesa Foundation, has pointed out that “we are very proud to be able to contribute once again to the promotion of different projects or activities aimed at caring for children, motherhood and families without economic resources, both in Spain and in other countries”, and has highlighted the unequivocal willingness of the institution to “help combat the situations of poverty and vulnerability that affect the most vulnerable groups”.

Thanks to these grants from the Ordesa Foundation, the Fundación Recover develops the project called ‘Aire: Respirando vida en Camerún’, Through this project, the medical equipment of the Pediatric, Neonatal and Maternal Services of the ‘Católico Claudine Echernier’ Hospital in Yaoundé (Cameroon) is being strengthened, and a complete oxygen distribution network is being installed.

Up to 12,000 people will directly benefit from this project, This center also has the intervention of Spanish volunteers specializing in Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Nephrology, who will train the center's professionals in the use of the new infrastructure and equipment, in addition to ensuring its sustainability.

It should be noted that over the years, the Ordesa Foundation It has allocated 9.5 million euros to 642 solidarity initiatives in 40 countries around the world, This initiative benefits around 600,000 children and pregnant women without resources. In addition, the entity regularly collaborates with different entities through the regular donation of children's food or nutritional supplements.

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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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