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Ordesa Grants were awarded in a ceremony held at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia (Photo: Ordesa Foundation).
 03.12.2015

The Ordesa Foundation allocates 300,000 euros to charity projects for disadvantaged children

The Ordesa Foundation has given the Ordesa 2015 grants, endowed with a total of 300,000 euros. A large part of this amount will be allocated to six projects aimed to address the most disadvantaged childhood and motherhood population in the world. As a novelty, this edition has added a new category aimed at twenty initiatives aimed at children at social risk in Spain which will receive a grant of 5,000 euros each. This´s year call will also donate 10 tons of baby food to social institutions that cater to families without resources. Since 2007 Ordesa has a R+D+I Center at PCB from which it takes an active role in clinical studies and national and international programs to improve the health and quality of citizens, especially during the maternal-child stage. 

 

The Ordesa Grants were awarded in a ceremony held at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia that was attended by the Secretary of Public Health, Department of Health of the Catalan Government  Joan Puigdollers; the General Director of Care for Children and Adolescents in Catalonia, Mercè Santmartí; the Mayor of Sant Boi, Lluïsa Moret and the President of the Ordesa Foundation, Isolda Ventura. It must be recalled that the Ordesa´s child food factory is located in Sant Boi.

With the delivery of these grants, the Foundation wants to work on improving the quality of life, health and nutrition of children without resources, especially newborns, infants and children in their first years of life. Throughout the 13 editions of these calls, Ordesa has allocated over 3.3 million to 70 different projects, developed especially in Africa, Latin America and Spain. In total, over 190,000 children have benefited from the aids.

“For over ten years, the Ordesa Foundation has promoted charity organizations projects that allow disadvantaged mothers and children from around the world to have access to a dignified life: with these grants we wish to continue to support these populations to move towards a more  world and more equitable opportunities for the neediest”, said Isolda Ventura, president of the Foundation.
 

The six winning projects

The initiatives selected to receive the Ordesa grants are six international projects dedicated to renovate, equip and improve centres and hospital areas dedicated to child and maternal populations in Africa and Latin America. The winning organizations are: AMREF for the installation of  obstetric and neonatal care equipment in two hospitals in Ethiopia; the Share Foundation with the rehabilitation of a medical center in Honduras; improving the delivery room and a pediatric hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo led by Manos Unidas; reconstruction of a center in Ethiopia conducted by Doctors Without Borders; a Medicus Mundi project to build new premises  at a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and finally,  the Africa Viva Foundation, with an initiative to improve maternal and child care at a hospital in Sierra Leone.