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28 niños en Camerún reciben atención especializada gracias a una acción de crowfunding

La Dra. María Fernández Ibieta, cirujana pediátrica voluntaria de Fundación Recover, viajó a Camerún con material quirúrgico en su propia maleta para participar en una campaña que ha devuelto salud...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering
Volunteer patient accompaniment

"You give them a little bit of you... and you take a little bit of them".

The testimony of Eva, a volunteer in the patient accompaniment programme for seven years...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering
Ex-patient Nemata graduate in Nursing

From patient to nurse: Nemata's story

Nemata, who underwent heart surgery in 2018 by Dr Aldamiz in Spain, has overcome her illness and, in 2025, has graduated as a nurse to care for others with the...
  • CATEGORIES: Patients

First successful and safe caesarean thanks to a solidarity wedding

A solidarity wedding in favour of the Recover Foundation has made it possible to equip the operating theatre of the Sainte Raphaëlle Marie Medical Centre in Cameroon ....
  • CATEGORIES: Health in Africa

Light for South Sudan

In just ten days, the ophthalmological mission in South Sudan, led by Blanca García Sandoval (Community of Missionaries of St. Paul the Apostle - Emalaikat Foundation) with the support of...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering
Signing with Atlantic Group

New partnership to improve access to health care in Africa

The Recover Foundation and the Atlantic Group Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement to promote access to health care in Ivory Coast and other priority countries for the Recover Foundation....
  • CATEGORIES: Health in Africa
volunteers-batchann-camerun

Recover Foundation, from the heart to the work

This foundation organised a campaign of free surgeries in the town of Batcham from 10 to 15 February to help the most vulnerable populations - Written by Jean...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering
Clementine, Florence and Conchi

A long journey with a hopeful ending

Thanks to the collaboration of Uber, Clementine and Florence completed their long journey from Burkina Faso to Spain to receive the surgery that has given them a second chance. ....
  • CATEGORIES: Patients
Burundi laboratory on the move

Discover the impact of our mission in Burundi

In August, the Recover Foundation, in collaboration with the Kyrikú Foundation, achieved a historic milestone in Burundi: the installation of a pathological anatomy reference laboratory in the entire region of...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering

Being a doctor to return generosity

Wanga, the young man from Sierra Leone who has undergone surgery in Spain thanks to the collaboration between Fundación Recover and Fundación Milla 91, thanks in this video the solidarity that...
  • CATEGORIES: Patients
Care and training in hospitals

Helping in Africa is easy with Recover Foundation

Several volunteers from Fundación Recover tell us how they live the experience of collaborating with us...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering
Alba Plou and María Gené take a selfie with their pupils

From theory to practice: how we train health professionals in the field

Increased knowledge is the basis for building a better health system...
  • CATEGORIES: Volunteering

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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

  • 0,65 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants
  • Resource 8 Since 2024
  • 1 health centre intervened
  • Reference anatomical pathology laboratory
  • Incidence in 78,031 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

  • 0,65 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants
  • Resource 8 Since 2024
  • 1 health centre intervened
  • 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

  • 1 Doctor/10,000 Inhabitants
  • Resource 8 Since 2007
  • 3 health centres intervened
  • 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

  • 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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