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Help us mobilize specialist doctors to the vulnerable community of Maniapure and give the women in this remote area of Venezuela access to health care!In collaboration with our local project partner, ADS Maniapure, the “Maniapure Healthcare Days” is an initiative where medical specialists from various regions of Venezuela are mobilized and travel to the Maniapure health clinic to provide specialized healthcare services to the local population. These medical specialists provide care and treatment that are not regularly or easily accessible to the local community.All of the medical specialists work voluntarily and travel around 400 km from the capital city of Caracas to the remote area of Maniapure in Bolivar state.The “Maniapure Healthcare Days” have become a popular event that attracts many people in the local community every year. The “Maniapure Health Days” is an initiative that has been ongoing for 14 years, through support of local and national partners, and provides life saving and life changing healthcare for the local residents, who normally have very difficult access to medical specialists.The ongoing initiative is also an opportunity for doctors to follow up with patients they have treated in the previous years. Because of the yearly follow up and consistent presence of ADS Maniapure, the Healthcare Days attract more and more people from the community every year, and the need for specialt health care increases.Maniapure's Healthcare Days 2023 - Women's healthIn 2023 our project partner, ADS Maniapure will organize the “Maniapure Healthcare Days” with a focus on providing specialists within gynecological care. Obstetricians and Gynecologists will be mobilized to the Maniapure region to provide women access to specialized health care.Women comprise 70% of the health clinic's patients. When women receive access to healthcare there is a “trickle down” effect that can affect entire families, and therefore impact the community. They seek care for themselves, their children and other family members.I Love Venezuela Sweden finances the “Maniapure Health Days” this year with the objective to strengthen and support women's access to healthcare and their basic human rights. We strongly believe that healthy women are the cornerstones of healthy societies and we want to support their rights!Join us in helping us provide specialist healthcare for women in Maniapure Venezuela. Donate now and be part of this project to help secure access to health care services for the women of Maniapure Venezuela!This project secures access to specialized health care services for approximately 800 patients in just a few days.Your donation, big or small makes a real difference!

Hi 🖐! We are I Love Venezuela SwedenWe are the people behind this project of love for Venezuela. Living in Sweden, we realized how fortunate we were and wanted to make a positive difference for our country and people, specially for our children ♥️.This year we want to raise awareness about the complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela that stills forces many Venezuelans to leave the country travelling up to 4500 KM. That equates to 900 races of 5 KM. That's why we've created the campaign #WeWalkSoTheyDon'tHaveto with the aim of visualizing this terrible situation and also raising funds to help more people have access to health services 🩺 within the country. Maybe that way they don't have to make such a hard decision to leave the coutnry with the risks that this entails, leaving behind their families and even children 👦🏻👧🏻👧🏽- How does this work?We are four teams, 16 people in total (Venezuelans, Swedes and other nationalities!) that will run or walk for Venezuela in the Stockholm Midnight Race (Midnattsloppet) next August 19th. We’ve established a fundraising goal of 5.000 SEK for our four teams. 100% of the funds raised will go to support our local ally ADSManiapure and their Maniapure Health Days which will bring specialist care for women angd girls to their health clinic in Maniapure this Fall!- Why should this matter to others? Why should you support us?I Love Venezuela Sweden helps Venezuelan communities in need of healthcare and specialists otherwise not available in the area. We support local healthcare clinics working with low-income and indigenous populations.Please support us in this important campaign to raise awareness and funds for Venezuela and have fun at the same time! 😀 No amount is too small to make a difference.

2022 MANIAPURE HEALTH CARE DAYS: OVER 600 PATIENTS!The ADSManiapure team and local allies provided free specialist health care to more than 600 people as part of the XV Maniapure Health Care Days at La Milagrosa Health Center in Bolivar State from November 27th to December 2nd 2022.Once again, I Love Venezuela Sweden has allocated the majority of its funds, 75% during 2022, to support our Project Partner ADSManiapure and their yearly project Maniapure Health Care Days. This project brings specialist health care to the vulnerable community of Maniapure every year and I Love Venezuela Sweden has financed this initiative for the third year in a row, following outstanding results during the previous years. Our Project Partner has a track record of having carried out this program for 15 years in collaboration with local partners and volunteers.The Maniapure Health Care Days 2022 had a focus on bringing specialist health care in the area of ophthalmology. A medical speciality which is in great demand in the region but to which the local population has historically had limited or nonexistent access to. Three former general practitioners were also present during the Health Days to reinforce the team providing general medical care. The Health Care Days were also possible thanks to the local health team currently working in Maniapure such as rural doctors, nursing and pharmacy staff, interns in their last year of medical school, and volunteers.As it has been the case during the last years, the local team continues to work under extremely harsh conditions to make this important event happen. The constraints imposed during the pandemic such as safety protocols, country-specific challenges such as hyperinflation and an ever more dollarized economy, have led the team to change the format of the event in order to adapt to this situation whilst continuing to provide access to specialist care to the vulnerable population, minimizing risks and making an effective use of the resources.For this aim, the team has resumed its collaboration with their local ally Maniapure Foundation, they have together planned the event meticulously and worked with a given focus on medical needs per event. The result is that despite the number of medical specialists being much lesser, the team was still able to attend to over 800 patients in only five days. Outstanding results!Besides, this new format, which has been in place since 2021, has allowed more time for each consultation where patient-tailored information and educational resources are also provided.The results of these efforts translated into the attention of a total of 657 specialized and general medicine consultations as follows:376 of ophthalmic patients who received timely and free treatment delivery.17 minor eye/ophthalmic surgical procedures.281 general medicine consultations.Besides, a total of 400 pairs of preformulated eyeglasses were distributed among the patients thanks to the kind donations of Optica Caroní.RESULTSOPHTHALMIC HEALTH CAREIn the last Health Care Days a total of 376 specialized ophthalmic consultations were carried out, 53% of patients were male and 71% of creole ethnicity. The age groups most represented in the consultations were between 19-60 years, followed by adults over the age of 60, the majority of which were men.Historically, ophthalmic health care services have been one of the most demanded during ADSManiapures yealry Health Days. The local population of Maniapure is continually under high exposure to sunlight, and develop as a consequence a series of ophthalmologic conditions such as cataract or pterygium, which require minor surgical interventions with the potential of high percentages of recovered optimal vision within a few months of the surgery.Globally, cataracts are the number one cause of preventable blindness, with an estimated 20 million people blinded by the condition. Cataracts and pterygium are amongt the main causes of blindness in developing countries where about 90% of blind persons or people with low vision live. There is a well-established relationship between poverty and blindness, and in developing countries people have a tenth fold increase in their risk of going blind compared to industrialized countries.In conclusion, facilitating access to improved and specialized health services, with the opportunity to benefit from a surgical procedure for the correction of specific pathologies, improves the quality of life of the Maniapure's families and inhabitants.

Hjälp oss stötta utsatt barn och vuxna i Venezuela med specialistsjukvård! Vi tror att ett starkt samhälle börjar med barns välmånde och välbefinnande. Grundläggande förutsättningar för att möjliggöra detta är att barnens mänskliga rättigheter respekteras.I Venezuela lever 3 av 4 personer i extrem fattigdom enligt FN:s definition (mindre än 17 kronor per dag). 2016 kom uppgifter från medborgare och journaliser i Venezuela som vittnade om akut brist på resurser inom sjukvården. Idag pågår tre simultana kriser i landet som riskerar att befästa situationen under en längre tid:Ekonomisk krisBränslekrisCovid19-pandemis konsekvenser Bakgrund om organisationenI Love Venezuela Sweden (ILVSwe) är en ideell, politiskt- och religiöst obunden organisation som verkar för Venezuelas barn. Med internationella samarbeten stöttar vår organisation området Maniapure, ett lokalsamhälle 16 mil sydväst om huvudstaden Caracas. Pengarna som vi samlar in går till organisationer som exempelvis Asociación de Damas Salesianas och deras projekt ADS Maniapure.Tillsammans med ditt bidrag kan vi hjälpas åt att förändra situtationen till det bättre.

For my 49:th birthday I am raising money for the charity organisation I Love Venezuela Sweden where my wife is heavily engaged. Your contribution makes a big difference and means a lot to us, no matter how much or how little you donate. All help counts.The video below is about the project that I Love Venezuela Sweden is supporting financially thanks to your donations. Thanks for your support! Message from I Love Venezuela Sweden Invest in Venezuela's future generations. With every gift you give to I Love Venezuela Sweden, you support our work to give Venezuelan children the right to a safe childhood. Help us to help further. Read more about I Love Venezuela Sweden and their projects on Target Aid or on their web page.