Help Children Cancer Patients in Colombia

We are a foundation that offers housing, food and transportation for children with hemato-oncological diseases in Barranquilla, Colombia.  With the help of volunteers, every day we concentrate on giving them a warm welcome and better well-being. 

The Andrea´s Children Home Foundation fosters solidarity, compassion, empathy, humility, kindness, tolerance, respect and most of all, children`s wishes.  Only with your help will we be able to successfully achieve this goal.

Our mission is to foster and improve the life of the children with cancer during their treatment through an interdisciplinary group formed by psychologists, educators, doctors, nurses and nutritionists looking forward to reduce the treatment abandonment rate.

Program Services

• Monitoring to guarantee treatment continuity
• Informative Lectures about Childhood Cancer 
• Legal Assessment
• Funeral Support 
• Recreation 
• Urban and Rural Transportation 
• Psychological Support for Child and Family 
• Nutritional Care  
• Academic Aid

Nutrition is an important component of an inclusive cancer care program. Eating the right foods before, during, and after treatment can help our patients feel better, stay stronger and mantain or improve their quality of life.  With this in mind, we are now working with a pediatric nutritionist on a nutritional counseling program were our patients and their companion receive guidance on what is the right food depending on their treatment.  Along with this, we have cooking workshops twice a month were mothers learn food manipulation methods.

We close 2017 with 22 new families and new computers for our computer lab. 

Housing Project:  So far, we´ve received $6.702USD, still $16.000USD to go! Together let´s fulfill our dream on bying the house.  

La organización acaba de cambiar su nombre de Fundación Andrea y Vanessa a Fundación Andrea. Sin embargo, todavía se esfuerza por el mismo objetivo. La fundación ofrece alojamiento, comida y transporte sin costo alguno para las familias con niños que tienen cáncer. Participa activamente en la reducción de la alta tasa de mortalidad infantil en el cáncer de la costa caribeña colombiana.
Desde su creación en junio de 2013, la familia ha recibido 118 familias de diferentes orígenes y estados.

Ofrecemos desde la apertura de la casa un refugio permanente para los niños, y nuestro objetivo es comprarla, de la misma manera que hemos podido adquirir nuestra camioneta. Esta camioneta, a diario, ha sido de gran ayuda al permitirnos llevar a los niños a sus citas de tratamiento y evitar cualquier riesgo al tomar transporte público o caminar.

La casa donde viven nuestros pacientes desafortunadamente no es nuestra. Tenemos que pagar un alquiler mensual de US $ 1066 (COP $ 3.200.000). Esta casa tiene 718 m2 y alberga 13 niños, cada uno con un tutor (generalmente su madre). Además de los dormitorios, tiene una sala de juegos, un patio interior, 2 salas de estar, una oficina administrativa, una oficina de psicología, una cocina, una enfermería, comedor y 8 dormitorios.

El precio comercial para adquirir se establece en US $ 210.000 (COP $ 630 millones). El proyecto de compra de la casa ha sido lanzado el 14 de febrero de 2016 por nuestro Gobernador Eduardo Verano.
Hasta ahora, hemos podido recaudar $ 20.000 dólares.
Sin embargo, esta cantidad todavía no cubre el pago inicial para comprar la casa. El 30% del valor de la casa que corresponde es US $ 63.000.

De la misma manera que terminamos el año 2015 con nuestra propia van nueva, nos encantaría terminar 2017 con nuestra propia casa.

Gracias !

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We have been offering since the opening  of the house,  permanent  shelter to the kids,and our goal is to own it, in the same way that we have been able to acquire our van. This van, on a daily basis, has been of a tremendous help by allowing us to bring the kids to their treatment appointments and avoid any risk by taking public transportation or walking.

The house where our kids are currently living is unfortunately not ours. We have to pay a monthly rent of US$1066 (COP $3’200’000). This house is 718 m2 and fosters 13 children, each with one guardian (usually a parent). Besides the bedrooms, it has  a play room, an interior patio, 2  living rooms, an administrative office, a psychology office, a kitchen, an infirmary, dining room and 8 bedrooms.

The commercial price to acquire it is set at US$210’000 (COP$630 million). The project of buying the house has been launched on February 14, 2016 by our Governor  Eduardo Verano.

So far, we have been able to collect  $20.000 dollars

However, this amount still does not cover the down payment to buy the house. This one represents 30% of the value, or US$ 63’000.

As we finished the 2015 year with our own new van, we would love to finish 2017 with our own house.

Thank you !