Our north is the south
Science serving Indigenous and Creole communities in the southern Venezuelan Amazon.
FPM's mission is to promote, contribute to, and improve the quality of life for vulnerable Indigenous and Creole communities. We achieve this by respecting their perspectives and culture, strengthening their local capabilities, fostering interagency alliances, and utilizing new technologies, with a primary focus on health.
Throughout its history, Fundacion Proyecto Maniapure has strengthened its capabilities by diversifying its programs, building relationships with national and international humanitarian architecture stakeholders, and coordinating with local and national authorities. This has enabled the foundation to access funding from various sources, which is directed towards ensuring the continuity of activities normally carried out at the CPT II Centro La Milagrosa. The center provides free access to: • Primary Health Care (PHC) • Nutritional Recovery Program • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) • Treatment for communicable and non-communicable diseases • Expanded Immunization Program • Specialized telemedicine services through the Virtual Triage Center (CTV) These services directly benefit eighteen (18) indigenous communities from six (6) different ethnic groups, as well as seventeen (17) mestizo communities, for a total of thirty-five (35) communities in the municipality. Your contribution will make a difference in assisting indigenous and mestizo communities located in hard-to-reach areas of the Cedeño municipality, Bolivar State - Venezuela, where they lack access to electricity, potable water, food, primary and specialized medical care services, public transportation, education, and other essential resources.
5,716 medical consultations during community visits; 5,791 medical consultations at the CPT II Centro La Milagrosa; 315 medical emergencies attended to; 192 telemedicine consultations with medical specialists; 29 patients hospitalized; 18 births attended to at CPT II Centro La Milagrosa; 1,392 unique beneficiaries of nutrition programs; 628 children under 5 and 72 pregnant and lactating women (MEL) benefiting from nutrition programs; 458 beneficiaries receiving micronutrient supplements; 692 nutrition counseling sessions; 27 community nutrition promoters trained; 14 community promoters trained in infection prevention and control; 8 community promoters trained in preventing vector-borne diseases (dengue, malaria, and leishmaniasis).
Newborns from deliveries attended to in remote, hard-to-reach indigenous communities of Bolívar State; children and adolescents from indigenous populations in remote, hard-to-reach areas of Bolívar State; pregnant and lactating women from indigenous populations in remote, hard-to-reach areas of Bolívar State; people with chronic and infectious diseases from indigenous populations in remote, hard-to-reach areas of Bolívar State; adults over sixty (60) years of age from indigenous populations in remote, hard-to-reach areas of Bolívar State; people with disabilities from indigenous populations in remote, hard-to-reach areas of Bolívar State; and women and men from indigenous populations in remote, hard-to-reach areas of Bolívar State.
