LATIN AMERICA 2021

Health Emergency: support for children and families in Haiti
With Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos Foundation

Haiti has been struck by yet another humanitarian disaster — a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale, with the epicentre located in the south-western region of the country, around 160 kilometres from the capital, Port-au-Prince. The earthquake on 14 August resulted in more than 2,300 deaths, over 12,000 injuries, and 1.5 million people affected, not to mention the large number of missing persons and the collapse of infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, homes and roads. With experience in humanitarian emergency programmes, NPH Haiti, together with the Nuria García Foundation, quickly coordinated a response to the earthquake by providing medical care and relief to the civilian population, and distributing essential goods including water and food, medicine, diagnostic tests, diesel and shelter. Following the emergency response, construction materials were acquired to help rebuild homes for affected families, supporting 600 disadvantaged children.

Contribution: 5.000€ + 2nd phase 2022: 5.000€

Health and nutrition programme in Peru
With Amantaní Association

The Amantaní Association has spent 24 years focusing on four residential homes that provide shelter and comprehensive care to babies, children and adolescents without family protection. These children are referred through the Special Protection Unit, Family Courts, Public Prosecutors and the National Police of Peru. State-run centres are extremely limited, making the care of children in situations of family neglect an urgent need. Poverty exacerbates problems such as gender-based violence, sexual abuse, abandonment, child maltreatment, maternal mortality and more. Since 2019, the Nuria García Foundation has guaranteed and funded healthcare for the babies, children and adolescents living in the Amantaní shelters in Cusco. The funding covers home visits by a paediatrician, laboratory tests and diagnostics, consultations with specialists and hospital stays, physical therapy, medication, oxygen, eye care, glasses, dental services, and the purchase of balanced nutrition for the care of 47 children.

Contribution: 11.927€ + 2nd phase 2022: 7.486€