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Here you can find the life stories, testimonies and reports of the people who inspire or form part of our work. Join us!

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...
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...

Volunteering that improves people's lives in sub-Saharan Africa

More than 70 health professionals collaborate with us annually through programmes and campaigns that address prevention, early diagnosis and training of local professionals. ....

Who can say no to Africa?

The experience of Dolores Pita, director of general services at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Quirónsalud Hospitals, in Cameroon...

A journey of learning and support, the experience of two physiotherapists in Cameroon.

"You learn more from the cultural immersion of living with your patients, sharing meals with your colleagues and enjoying the moments of friendship in the face of all the cultural differences...".

The magic of small gestures

Thanks to the contributions made to Openbank's solidarity card, Fundación Recover has received a donation that we have dedicated to the sickle cell disease campaign....
Screening at the Saint Laurent Medical Centre in Villaregia, Côte d'Ivoire

Do you know what sickle cell disease is?

At the Recover Foundation we know that prevention is the key to fighting this disease...

GAZING AT THE STARS AGAIN

The beautiful story of Blanca García Sandoval, ophthalmologist at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz...
Taofik during his stay at the Hospital Quirónsalud Pozuelo

Patients: opportunities that heal - Taofik's story

Taofik, un niño de 12 años proveniente de Benín, es el protagonista de esta historia...

Malaria is not letting up in Africa

En Camerún la malaria es endémica. “Los más de 27 millones de cameruneses están expuestos regularmente a la enfermedad”....

Experiences: international volunteering trip

Alex Pujol, ginecólogo, junto con Ana Inaraja y Rut Nieto, matronas, todos ellos del Hospital Infanta Elena – Quirónsalud de Valdemoro, nos cuentan su viaje a Camerún para formar en...

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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
Note this date

We celebrate our Health for Africa solidarity concert In Madrid this 18th September!

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

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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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