TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC

Humanitarian Medical Assistance: Our portfolio of non-family planning humanitarian services in 2023 included 178 ambulatory surgical procedures including hernia repair breast lumpectomies prolapses biopsies and laparoscopic diagnoses as well as a smaller number of emergency Caesareans radical mastectomies and hysterectomies requiring hospitalization. We offered 2801 OB GYN pediatric ENT ophthalmological and oncological consultations and 2319 assists with lab work imaging biopsies and other diagnostic procedures for low-income patients who can no longer count on the public health system.

Brito Community Center and Rural Education: Our education program includes a remote rural computer center with a small primary and high school library. We offer scholarships for up to 60 rural high school students plus 10 community college students who have graduated in our high school program along with subsidized school supplies. We assist the remote K-1-12 state school where we help support ten teachers and 100+ students and the local rural kindergarten that we founded with the State in 2001. In the city of Cumana we have a computer and student center with Internet for our rural scholarship students and other low-income urban and rural students. These programs were reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic but are now reactivating. NOTE: This program is now primarily funded through local revenue in Venezuela via our sister independent Venezuelan non-profit Fundacin ServYr and supplemented by the smaller amount of assistance noted here.

Rural Assistance and Sustainable Development Eco-Agriculture: This hands-on directed assistance applies to approximately 80 families benefiting more than 400 family members in all with a small model farm offering community participation in sustainable land use and eco-agriculture introduction of new fruit and other tree crops alternative solar energy and water resource projects housing and infrastructure assistance support for family emergencies and micro enterprise. NOTE: This program is now primarily funded through local revenue in Venezuela via our sister independent Venezuelan non-profit Fundacin ServYr and supplemented by the smaller amount of assistance noted here from our Turimiquire funds.