Learn more about our team, and find out how you can help!
Donations are urgently needed to keep these children alive
Learn more about our team, and find out how you can help!
Donations are urgently needed to keep these children alive
This program focuses on severely malnourished children, and provides them with medical care and food on an ongoing basis. We currently have 19 children in this program, and are providing whatever medicine, food, or baby formula they may need. We give them bi-monthly health checkups, to make sure they are gaining weight, and we give the parents large bags of groceries and child-care supplies every two weeks, doing whatever we can to keep the children healthy and their families stable. When necessary we provide them with medical tests, and arrange all they need for surgeries and other procedures.
Our teams regularly make huge pots of protein–rich soup, or pasta with soya, or vitamin-enriched oatmeal with peanut butter toast, and serve these meals either to groups of abandoned elderly people in hospital wards, or as a breakfast to school children who would otherwise have nothing to eat until lunch. Sometimes our teams make giant pots of soup, or arepas (pan-fried corncakes) stuffed with sausages or black beans, and distribute them to people on the street.
Through this program we are providing 2400 meals a month at a shelter for homeless teens, and 800 meals a week at a school for poor children. This program is named after Angels Answer, a food bank in Boston, Massachusetts, which is providing us with large amounts of food and other supplies for our work in Venezuela.
We hope to expand this program in the near future, and provide food for a school with 400 poor children. Your donation can make it happen!
Through this program we are providing women’s vitamins and nutritious food for pregnant women and new mothers. We also give personal hygiene kits, including menstrual pads, soap, shampoo, and deodorant, items which most Venezuelans can no longer afford. The photo shows our first purchase of vitamins for women.
In this program we visit children's hospitals and give one-time gifts of baby food, baby-care supplies, and personal hygiene products. Our teams take note of patients who require medicines that the hospital does not have, and then do their best to locate the medicines. We also give out packets of food that people can take and cook at home. Often our teams bring large pots of food into the hospitals, and provide a meal for everyone there, doctors and nurses included. This is an essential service, because hospitals in Venezuela cannot afford to properly feed their patients.
During the Christmas season we send in a large number of chocolates and inexpensive toys, wrap them in decorative bags, and distributed them to children along with special holiday meals, so that kids from poor families who would otherwise receive nothing during the holidays could receive a taste of Christmas joy. Poverty is not only lack of food and money, but also lack of love and joy, and we do our best to provide a taste of both, all year round.
We need your help to help the people of Venezuela. Any contribution helps.
You can also donate using Zelle by using the name
Ram Das Batchelder and the email
savinglivesinvzla@gmail.com
or through Paypal by following this link