AYUDAME A VIVIR FOUNDATION INC
Saving Children with Cancer in Guatemala
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We provide life expectancy to children and teenagers with cancer in Guatemala. Ayúdame a Vivir Foundation Inc. in Florida, USA is a sister organization of Fundación Ayúdame a Vivir – AYUVI- in Guatemala. We both, are dedicated to raise funds to provide a holistic treatment at no cost for children with cancer in Guatemala.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Supporting Saving Children with Cancer Project
Ayudame a Vivir Foundation, Inc. has established a collaboration agreement with Fundación Ayúdame a Vivir (AYUVI) to support children with cancer in Guatemala, currently served at the Saving Children with Cancer Project.
AYUVI was established in the year 1997. It provides a comprehensive treatment at NO COST tailored to each family´s needs. This psychosocial approach includes: medicines, hospitalization, social work, parental education, child-life program, psychological attention, nutritional advising, shelter, transportation stipends, groceries, funerary services, spiritual & support therapies, and palliative & hospice care. Up to June (2020) 9,267 children have been attended, 7,249 children have been diagnosed and 3,221 are now free of this disease.
AYUVI established a public- private alliance with UNOP- National Pediatric Oncology Unit-the only hospital specialized in pediatric cancer in Guatemala. AYUVI fundraises and provides all required resources for the operation, maintenance, and growth of UNOP. AYUVI also supports an ambulatory clinic located in Xela, Quetzaltenango which serves patients from the Western Highlands, and the AYUVI- Estuardo Mini Hospice located in the outskirts of Guatemala City.
Nicklaus Children´s Hospital (Miami,FL)
Support directed towards Hematology/Oncology Research.
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our hospital is operating at 100% occupancy every month. We still need to reach the other 50% of Guatemalan pediatric population that still aren't being helped.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We raise funds for children who develop cancer in Guatemala so that they can receive a holistic treatment at no cost.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
AYUVI collects and provides the necessary resources for UNOP to function, which is the only highly specialized center for pediatric cancer treatment in Guatemala and helps children and teenagers from all over the Country. We also provide a comprehensive treatment which includes the following services:
- social work
-Psychology
-Parents training
-Spiritual support
- Nutrition
-Supportive therapies
-Hospital Game
-Palliative medicine and hospice
Additionally, we have an abandonment program which includes the following:
-Funeral services
-Food bags
- Hostel
-Transport
This in order to keep patients with constant care and treatment for this disease.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Holistic treatment at no cost to patients and their families.
The chemotherapies protocols applied by UNOP follow the most highly international standards (Gold Standard).
The survival rate has increased from 20% to 70%.
The treatment dropout rate is less than 1%.
9,427 children helped.
7,367 diagnosed with cancer.
3,291 children are free from the existing disease.
513 children are helped each year.
Decentralized services through the satellite clinic in Quetzaltenango.
Attention, care and palliative support in the Nursing Home AYUVI-Estuardo Mini, Hospice.
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AYUDAME A VIVIR FOUNDATION INC
Board of directorsas of 01/06/2021
Ms Patricia Gutiérrez
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