Provide Early Intervention for 100 kids in Mexico

In the population of our country, the adequate care of patients with Cerebral Palsy represents a catastrophic expense for the family economy, since the income is significantly reduced by the expenses (medicines, equipment, rehabilitation, etc.) resulting from the disability condition, becoming an expenditure impossible to cover in its entirety for the population living in conditions of poverty. In addition, in our country there are no public programs that provide care for people with CP from infancy to adulthood, with a biopsychosocial approach.

The Early Detection and Intervention Program is continuous in our organization, as we support these families by providing them with services such as diagnosis, electroencephalogram, visual potentials, auditory potentials, therapies, family psychotherapies and education, all at a really low cost to support their economy, thanks to the donations we receive from people as valuable as you.

Since 2007, and based on the experience accumulated since 1971, the Early Detection and Intervention Program (DEI) has been created for children from 0 to 6 years of age with high neurological risk, warning signs, perinatal damage or sequelae, to whom we provide neurodevelopmental follow-up by a specialized transdisciplinary team in order to prevent or minimize the sequelae of neurological damage, which is a prerequisite for disability.

Although cerebral palsy is an irreversible condition, we have found that the sooner rehabilitation therapies begin, the more likely the person is to achieve almost complete recovery of body control. This is the importance of our program. We help minimize the likelihood of motor disability through early identification, care and rehabilitation, beginning in the first months of life. This intervention is essential to respond to a public health problem that exists in our country, which affects not only the economic burden, but also the emotional toll on the family.

Your donation will help us to provide these therapies on a continuous basis to 100 children from different latitudes of our country and with different levels of mobility according to the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS).

The main results to highlight are:

• 46% of the beneficiaries improved their motor development.
• 62% improved their language, cognitive, social and educational skills.
• 55% of the beneficiaries reduced their sequelae in cases of permanent damage.
• 65% of patients achieved an optimal level of well-being.

We invite you to continue working with us. Our commitment, our mission is permanent and has been for 53 years.