By Hellen Arana | Executive Director
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
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.
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