What has Happened

In this interview with Czech journalist Veronika Perkova, Steven Bloomstein, the co-founder and president of the Turmiquire Foundation, and one of the only men in an organization run by women on the ground, talks about reproductive health and family planning, the needs of Venezuelan families and the global fight for women’s empowerment.

We are distributing rare Durian seedlings to the farmers in the valleys where we work. The lucrative Durian, an unusual south Asian fruit, has the potential to lift the economic profile of low-income campesino farmers and foster long-term tree farming in the region. Reforestation with tree crops can help conserve the environment and mitigate global climate change.

In March 2023, Foundation President Steven Bloomstein was a featured speaker at this Harvard symposium. It was an inspiring event in which we shared our experience and knowledge providing family planning and reproductive health services to low-income communities in northeastern Venezuela where there is enormous unmet need.