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Remodel and equip a building is in very poor condition, to be dedicated to National Office and Training Center program in health and nutrition education, maternal - infant, in the Dominican Republic, is the goal it has set for this United Hands campaign Torre Pacheco, which will be held for the ninth consecutive year, the usual "Paella Solidarity" in which, as every year, with the collaboration of the City Council and the Institution pachequero Ferial Villa de Torre Pacheco.
This event, which coincides with the Third Regional Meeting for Solidarity, will take place on Sunday April 19th at its usual scenario Regional Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of IFEPA
The goal that aims to achieve U.S. Hands this year, has cost more than the 48,000 euros, much of which is intended to raise through the sale of invitations to attend the Solidarity Paella, which usually brings in a IFEPA nearly 2,500 guests who give a good account of a menu whose ingredients are given freely by companies in Torre Pacheco and around the Campo de Cartagena, seasoned and served for nearly three hundred volunteers.
The purpose of the building which is to rehabilitate is to serve as a training center to more than 260 health and nutrition counselors in mother - child, to accompany and advise mothers in extreme poverty, belonging to different communities Dominican parish from pregnancy until the children reach six years.
The importance of a campaign and advice of this type is illustrated by a series of figures, health and nutritional status of rural Dominican: infant mortality is 31 per thousand and maternal, of 177 per hundred thousand live births ; chronic malnutrition in children under 5 years is 9%, affecting some 90,000 children and 65% have not received all necessary vaccinations.
The beneficiaries of the direct and indirect campaign are estimated at more than 22,000 people
Source: Manos Unidas de Torre Pacheco
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