Changing the World, One Family at a Time
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
The Turimiquire Foundation is the first and only non-profit of its kind in northeastern Venezuela.
We help families control their fertility, educate their children, build community, and gain access to life-changing medical and humanitarian aid.
Turimiquire, pronounced Too-ree-mee-kée-ray, means “Seat of the Gods” in the indigenous Carib language, and refers to the majestic saddles formed by the steep peaks and valleys in the local Turimiquire mountain range.
The Turimiquire Foundation is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.
Our Federal or Employment Identification Number is 04-3286660.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND HUMANITARIAN AID SERVICES:
Family Planning
The first and crucial step towards empowering women is to offer them the means to control their own fertility.
Education
Once families gain control of their fertility, they can concentrate on giving their children the best possible future through schooling.
Sustainable Livelihood
Our low-impact rural development and ecological agriculture initiatives serve a dual purpose – to preserve local ecosystems and promote self-employment for rural populations.
Humanitarian Aid
Venezuela is in crisis: its lower income people are tragically vulnerable to the lack of public services and widespread scarcity of even common medicines.
SMALL FOUNDATION, BIG IMPACT
WHAT’S HAPPENING
We are honored to have an article about our work in family planning and the story of our Foundation in this December’s magazine of the Population Connection. Altogether, we have served over 50,000 low-income mainly rural women, offering over 120,000 “couple years of protection,” the metric by which USAID measures family planning achievements.
Venezuela has declared an emergency nation-wide lock-down in the face of the coronavirus. In careful coordination with the clinics and doctors with whom we work, we are continuing to provide family planning and critical reproductive health services for our rural clientele with a priority on keeping everyone safe. Families in quarantine need our services more than ever!.
COVID-19
We are joining forces with Fundacion Esperanza Rosa, a non-profit recently founded by a group of women doctors, nurses and professionals here in Venezuela, to help low-income women treat the growing scourge of breast cancer, with attention to all spheres of women’s reproductive health. Please help us to save the lives of these vulnerable women!
Esperanza Rosa
2023 Turimiquire Foundation
