VICENTE FERRER FOUNDATION
- Foundation’s website (only in Spanish): www.fundacionvicenteferrer.org
- Information in English: download PDF
Letter from FVF:
The Vicente Ferrer Foundation supports the NY/Anantapur Project, and would like to thank our friends José Carlos Casado, Claudia Herasme, Pablo Zamorano, Ioana Alfonso, Amelia Alonso, Marta Sánchez, Eva Sanchís and others who are making possible this very important initiative to support the development of this program for Anantapur. Thanks to your initiative we will be able to build a new school in the region for 500 children, and your support provides great value to our work in creating a thorough transformation in the way of life for this group in India. We are thrilled to receive your support and send you warm regards.
FVF's Accomplishments:
Education:
- Almost 1,700 schools serving 125,500 children.
- Over 2,000 teachers enrolled, from their own community.
- 120 public libraries.
- Close to 100% enrolment of dálits children in primary and secondary schools.
- Over 800 grants (since 2004) awarded for higher education programs.
Health and Hygiene:
- 3 General Hospitals, with 275 beds.
- 1 Center for Family Planning, with 100 beds.
- 1 Center for the care of people with AIDS/HIV, with 38 beds.
- 14 rural health centers.
- Over 1,300 staff in the health sector, including doctors and birth assistant nurses.
Ecology:
- Over 2.7 million trees planted.
- Over 600 towns benefit from the sprinkler systems.
- Over 700 towns benefit from drip irrigation systems.
- Over 2,200 structures to preserve water.
- Over 2,500 units of biogas installed.
- Over 30 solar panels installed.
Women:
- Over 4,200 shangams.
- Over 56,000 women associated to a shangams.
- 978 towns covered by the Women Development Fund.
- Over 10,000 women enrolled in the “women to women” program.
- Over 6,000 women enrolled in empowering / job training centers.
Shelter:
- Over 26,000 houses built.
- Over 1,300 houses for people with disabilities built.
People with Disabilities:
- Over 1,200 shangams.
- Over 15,000 people with disabilities associated to a shangams.
- 18 boarding schools serving 1,216 people with disabilities.
Active Collaboration:
- Over 130 women with disabilities are able to sustain themselves.
--- Vicente Ferrer's Quotations ---
“I’ve declared war on pain and suffering and I’ve signed a commitment to peace: to contribute to unity between nations and people.”
“I’ve found the greatest richness in the most extreme poverty, in the most naked humanity.”
“Education is the first step of development, the means needed to transform society and free it from ignorance.”
“Misery and suffering are not meant to be understood, but to be solved.”
“I’m quite sure that no good deed is lost in this world. In some place, it will remain forever.”
“The West has an apocalyptic responsibility. The Governments must realise that it’s up to them to carry out heroic acts and make very brave political decisions to solve the problem of poverty.”
“Why do I need to search for the truth if any good deed in favour of others in itself contains every philosophy, every religion, the whole universe and God himself?”
“History is a process of millions of years in which society aspires to become itself in humanity.”
“Life’s adventure consists in being present in the History, be it small or big, of Humanity.”
“Should we wait for the salvation of humanity to come from the hands of governments and the major international institutions? It’s true that they have an important part of responsibility, but, increasingly, we should accept our own.”
