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HEALTH
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Donation of a First Aid Unit to the Home of the Poor, run by the Missionary Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in Madrid in 1987.
Donation of 6,000 adult-size diapers to the Association Cottolengo del Padre Alegre, a centre for handicapped persons located in Madrid in June 1995.
10,000 adult-size diapers, a gift to WORLD IN HARMONY from Pharmacists of the World of Cataluña, were donated to a retirement home in Bilbao in 1995.
In 1999, the association collaborated with the COMMUNITY OF MADRID in a program for adults with disabilities possessing sufficient autonomy to enable them to live on their own in apartments, under the supervision of professionals, thus permitting their maximum integration into a normal neighbourhood community.
In April 2002, a contribution was made to the construction costs of the new Occupational Center URCI, in Águilas (Murcia), which treats persons with physical disabilities, in order to permit their full integration into society, and where disabled children are given the opportunity to acquire professional training, thus building up their self-confidence and permitting their active participation in society.
In 2005, World in Harmony made a donation to the MUSIC FOR LIFE FOUNDATION, destined to orphanages in Africa which care for and offer shelter to children and young people, principally refugee children fleeing ethnic conflicts and wars. Emphasis is placed on providing musical instruction in order to permit the children to participate in coral groups (African Children’s Choir) of tribal music and offer musical performances in Spain.
AFGHANISTAN
In May 1989, medicalsupplies and 3,520 disposable syringes, donated by Becton Dickinson (Spain) were delivered to Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan.
BOLIVIA
In 2003, World in Harmony began collaborating with Medicus Mundi Rioja (Spain) in a project to combat blindness in Bolivia (in the region of Potosí), one of the most impoverished countries in South America. Medicus Mundi Rioja is creating an ophthalmic center at the Hospital of the Conception, and training is provided for a network of health professionals to be able to treat patients suffering from eye diseases, in order to provide them with eye care. Combating eye diseases, together with polio vaccination programs, are considered the two most efficient means of reducing poverty in the world. A second donation was made in 2005.
IVORY COAST
In October 1989, 100 kilos of medicines were donated to N'Daya International, Abidjan.
ETHIOPIA
In 1988, in collaboration with the Medical Association for the Prevention of Blindness of Cataluña(Spain), a donation was made to their Program for Ocular Health in Tigray (Ethiopia) – Project Vision, a project designed to combat eye diseases producing blindness through the organization and follow-up of "eye-camps" and "eye workshops", for the purpose of providing the training of nurses specialized in ophthalmology (Ophthalmic Medical Assistants). 90% of the world’s blind population resides in developing countries.
In 2002 collaboration in the project, Equipment and incentives for the graduates of a School to train Nurses Specialized in Ophthalmology – OMA’s (Ophthalmic Medical Assistants), founded and supported by theMedical Association for the Prevention of Blindness of Cataluña(Spain) - PROJECT VISION - in the region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. The principal objective of this project is to supply each of the 10 OMA's with sufficient equipment to ensure they are able to carry out their duties (table of optometers with Snellen "E", a complete box of lenses, eyeglass frames, an exploration flashlight, Schiotz tonometer for measuring eye tension, 2 sets of surgical instruments, a spool of suturing material, a package of surgical needles, etc.). In addition, World in Harmony´s contribution was utilized for the payment of incentives for 6 OMA's, to ensure they remain in the poorest areas of the country, as well as in recognition of increases in productivity.
INDIA
In 1990, donation of medicines to the Gandhiji Prem Nivas Leprosy Centre, run by the Missionary Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, at Titagarh, Parganas, in West Bengal.
Contribution to the ILA TRUST, Medicare and Rehabilitation Multi-Service Center, at Betkuchi Village, Guwahati, Assam (northeast India). Since its creation in 1994, the ILA TRUST Multi-Service Center attends to the health needs, free-of-charge, of patients suffering from stigmatic diseases such as AIDS, as well as tuberculosis, diarrhoea, dysentery, and numerous water-borne diseases relevant to the North East region, with special emphasis on women and children. The North East region is among the most deprived regions of India, with chronic problems of floods, poverty, unemployment and insurgency. In addition, the ILA TRUST provides professional training in local arts and crafts wares, such as weaving, cane and bamboo crafts, etc., as a means of income generation.
IRAQ
In collaboration with DOCTORS OF THE WORLD, 3 emergency medical assistance kits (New Emergency Health Kit) containing medicines and complementary medical supplies sufficient to attend to 10,000 persons during a three-month period, were donated by World in Harmony in 2003 to assist in the development of their health and nutritional programs, of vital importance once bellicose conflicts have terminated, and to contribute to the reconstruction of the health system in Iraq. Each kit consists of 24 boxes of medicines, materials and health equipment.
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
In December, 2003, a benefit concert, entitled “Bridge of Hope”, was celebrated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid for the purpose of raising funds in order to collaborate in a joint project being carried out by the Palestinian Council of Health and the Peres Center for Peace entitled: "The improvement of the mental health status of Palestinian and Israeli children”
MOZAMBIQUE
In June 1993, 40 kits for the blind were donated to the Blind People's Home in Beira, in collaboration with the O.N.C.E.
TUNISIA
In 2004, 10 wheelchairs were donated by World in Harmony to the Association ADEBA (Development – Excellence – Bouarada) which assists the insertion and integration into society of disabled persons, specifically, permitting them to work, living in the village of Bouarada, near the Tunisian capital.
VIETNAM
In February, 2001 a project was initiated, under the leadership and direction of the INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED PHYSICS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS (IAPSI) of Hanoi, financed by a grant from the SPANISH AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION (S.A.I.C.), donations from WORLD IN HARMONY and the SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO FOUNDATION, together with the collaboration of the CODESPA Foundation, a Spanish NGO.
This is a pilot project, denominated "Educational method for preventive health care for the Vietnamese", consisting of education assisted by technology, to be implemented by means of Interactive Learning Stations (ILS), oriented towards improving knowledge about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases among primary health care workers of the communities located in the region of the Mekong River delta and in the mountainous areas of Central Vietnam. The objective of this project is to improve the health services and to fill the gap of knowledge of the medical staff in 30 communities who do not have a health centre.