Public Awards and Community Recognition
In 1999, we received this award from the rural Cumanacoa public hospital for our initiative in jump-starting their defunct family planning and surgery program, and for our contribution to their new emergency room facility (we received the award at its inauguration).
Over the years, we have received many Awards and Thank You Certificates from a wide range of public health and educational institutions and from the communities where we work. We are proud of this public recognition for our efforts, and we invite you to view a broad Selection of Awards 
that we have received since 1999.
We have also received many Letters of Reference and Commendation acknowledging our partnerships with many of the public, private and non-profit organizations with whom we have worked in Venezuela, both in Cumaná, the Sucre state capital, and in Caracas, the nation’s capital. This network of local, regional and national connections has been carefully created and sustained over the years, and in conjunction with the international support that we receive in a globalizing world, has been essential to the success and depth of our programs.
We invite you to view a Selection of Letters of Commendation that we have received since 1997.
Fundación ServYr referred to in these documents is the Venezuelan nonprofit Foundation established in 1996 for the specific purpose of executing Turimiquire Foundation programs.
We salute here the many people -- both within our Foundations and within these organizations and communities -- for making this possible. Thank you all!
In 2002, we received this award from the large Fe y Alegría Urban Public Health Facility for strengthening their family planning program and opening an Adolescent Reproductive Health Center on the premises to serve the predominantly youthful population of this sprawling low income Cumaná barrio, in order to help bring down the high levels of undesired teen age pregnancy and of sexually transmitted infections.
In 2008, we received this award from the remote Río Brito public elementary school, which is over an hour’s walk from the nearest road, and serves this rural valley’s 90 campesino families. Over the years, we have supported this school in many ways, most notably with subsidized school supplies and with a scholarship program that has allowed an increasing number of primary school graduates to continue their studies through high school, and in some cases, to continue to university.
We are proud of our many awards that cover two whole walls of Casa ServYr, the Foundation’s headquarters in a modest colonial house in the historic section of Cumaná, and which testify to years of networking and participation with a wide range of organizations in joint efforts to improve public health and education in the extended low-income and rural communities that we serve.
