Turimiquire Foundation: Empowering Marginalized Populations with your help

Reproductive health for marginal populations

Our Foundation began back in 1996 by helping underserved women and families in a remote river valley with vital family planning and other health care services that they could not get anywhere else. With the invaluable experience that we gained working with these rural campesinos, we now work across multiple counties, several other states, and on outlying islands as the only non-profit of its kind in northeastern Venezuela.

Our focus is always the same: to help marginal populations that are most in need of our reproductive health, primary care and educational services.

We have now offered well over 100,000 women and families informative reproductive health education and access to the family planning services that they have asked for. And we continue to expand, reaching new rural and barrio populations where there is enormous unmet need for these services.

Behind the lovely children in the communities that we reach, is the sadder story of adult illiteracy, children without schooling, children and adults needing medical attention, women and men without knowledge nor access to modern contraceptive methods to control their fertility – populations that desperately need public health and education services.

Housing and sustainable livelihood are also deficient in the countryside and in the barrios that ring the cities. These are the structures that so many families live in. Water and electricity are intermittent. Unemployment and poverty prevail.

Step 2: Education is the key to social progress

Once families control their fertility, they immediately look to the future and seek to better educate their children. The Foundation offers educational support in our targeted communities for primary and high school all the way through college scholarships. For example, our scholarship student Maria (left and above) is now an assistant rural school teacher. After years of part-time study, traveling to town from her rural home and school, she has proudly graduated from college with a degree in education. Both of Maria's parents are illiterate. In just one generation Maria has jumped from illiteracy to a college education!

Heidi (below) is another of our scholarship students making the leap from illiteracy to a college education. Both Maria and Heidi are staying in their rural communities, working with the Foundation to offer the next generation better educational opportunities!

Step 3: Sustainable livelihood, the Durian Project

Along with health and education, sustainable livelihood can complete the transformation to rural prosperity. We have demonstrated that Durian, the commercially-viable southeast Asian tropical fruit, can be successfully grown in Venezuela. We may have the only producing trees in the country! They are already generating income for farmers in one rural valley.

Each Durian you see here can be sold in market for the equivalent of a week's salary in rural labor. The Foundation is disseminating treelings of this fruit to local farmers to encourage tree farming as both a sustainable source of higher income and an alternative to the traditional, highly erosive slash-and-burn agriculture – a major contributor to deforestation and a net negative in climate change.

Imagine a lesser-developed world where rural families, however poor, can determine their own fertility... where rural children have genuine opportunity to be educated... and where rural livelihood can be healthy, sustainable and rewarding for an enduring future!

Please DONATE here to help us with our high-impact work!

THANK YOU to all of our donors who have given us your trust.
We send a special thank you to two organizations:
the Erik and Edith Bergstrom Foundation and the Population Connection,
for generously supporting our reproductive health care
and family planning services in this time of adversity.
Thanks to everyone's vision and generosity,
we have now positively empowered the lives of 100,000+ women and their families in northeastern Venezuela!
¡ Gracias !

Staffed and run by Venezuelan women, the Foundation's reproductive health and education programs deliver the services that Venezuelan women (and men) are directly asking for. Our doctors, nurses, clinic workers, social workers, sociologists, educators, and rural promoters – all backed by an excellent administrative staff based in the city of Cumana – make a wonderful team dedicated to changing lives every day!

Please
Donate HERE to the Turimiquire Foundation

Our Federal or Employment Identification Number is 04-3286660.
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation fully accredited by the IRS.

Your donations are wholly tax-deductible, and remember, about
94 cents of every dollar goes directly into the field.

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You can also contribute using

Turimiquire Foundation
turimiquirefoundation@gmail.com

Or you can mail your check,
payable to the Turimiquire Foundation,
to our U.S. office:
Turimiquire Foundation
William Bloomstein
16 Crescent Street
Cambridge, MA. 02138
USA

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