Nutrition and Preventive Health

The Program

Provides nutritious meals to members of the communities in need community who cannot afford food supplies or have medical problems that impedes them from getting food. Promote health awareness through campaigns and vaccinations.

Projects

Good Lunch/Social Dining Room

goodLunch

Description
The Dining Room is open Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 13:30. It is a service available to the community of Miraflores which offers a free daily menu (first course, main course and juice). The menus are designed with the help of an expert nutritionist. The Good Lunch program provides lunch daily for the villagers of Miraflores that for reasons of disability, age, illness or living conditions cannot use the Social Dining Room. Lunch is delivered to them daily. 

Place
Miraflores

Preventive Health

Description
This project prevents disease through targeted vaccination campaigns, informing and raising awareness of the importance they have on health in the short and long term. This project also involves a birth control campaign within the Community to raise public awareness of the risks and responsibilities of birth and childcare.

Place
Miraflores

 

Latest News

Rescuing elderly couple living in extreme conditions!

Rescuing elderly couple living in extreme conditions!

During September 2010, the Miraflores Community Centre had the visit of three Bupa volunteers, Azam Nazim from Denmark, Fued Ghazali from Denmark, ....

Semifinalist for Discover Latin America grant

Semifinalist for Discover Latin America grant

Martha Estrella Foundation is very proud to inform that our project has been preselected among 52 other projects from Latin America. Our applicatio....

Martha Estrella Charity Foundation in Action!

Martha Estrella Charity Foundation in Action!

The Martha Estrella Charity Foundation team, led by Gaston Sandoval, work based on sensitive, diligent and compassionate values to address ....

Feeding more than 120 people daily!

Feeding more than 120 people daily!

One of our main community services offered to the Miraflores community is free lunch. Every weekday the Center provides food.

Recent Project

Project Calderón

Project Calderón

The Martha Estrella Foundation was awarded by the government of Ecuador, developing and managing nine children development centers in Calderon, nor....

Community Center in Action

Community Center in Action

We are very proud to see our Community Center working and full of live. There are very big changes since the centre was finished by our 120 volunte....

Project Miraflores

Project Miraflores

Bringing better healthcare, education and economic opportunities to the rural community of Miraflores, Ecuador with the support of 120 Bupa volunte....