Autor: Jazmin Hernandez, Educadora de Salud en EsperançaOctubre el mes rosa, ¿y por que nos referimos a este color cuando llega este mes?, ¿y por qué organizaciones globales con tanta influencia como NFL, cadenas televisivas y medios masivos se unen a esta campaña año tras año?, pues muy simple decirlo […]
October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Submitted by: Jazmin Hernandez, Community Health Educator Lead Trainer Pink is abundant every October, but why do we promote this color when this month arrives? And why do global organizations with as much influence as the NFL, television networks and mass media join this campaign year after year? Very simply, […]
María is Combatting Malnutrition with Nature’s Medicine
A Miracle Child When your baby is sick, you feel so helpless. You just pray that somehow the fever will break, their energy will return, and their pained cries will turn to coos. María felt this anxiety all too often. She is a small-scale farmers in rural Bolivia. After years […]
Great.com interviews Esperança About Transforming Lives Around the World
Danielle Riberio from Great.com interviewed Esperança as part of their ‘Great.com Talks With…’ podcast. This series is an antidote to negative news stories that aims to shed light on organizations and experts whose work is making a positive impact on the world. Bringing Hope and Providing Health Developing countries already […]
Meet Sandra, a diabetes warrior
Sandra entered the hospital to deliver her second child full of hope. She had been eagerly awaiting the expansion of her beautiful family. She never could have anticipated the bittersweet feeling she left with that day… Sandra was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, a form of high blood sugar that affects […]
Márcia’s Triplets Overcome Hunger in Mozambique
Watching your baby take her first step. Hearing her say “mama.” Few of life’s joys compare to seeing your child reach these early milestones. But a lack of food all but robbed Márcia and her triplets of these simple pleasures. Márcia’s girls were nearly a year old when our partner […]
Rosa’s Story | Why These Kids in Peru Love Veggies
Can you imagine growing a garden at 14,000 feet? That’s over two and a half times as high as the elevation of Denver, Colorado. At that altitude, Bernabe and Rosa of Chuachua, Peru were struggling to raise alpacas and grow enough potatoes to feed their family of eight. Mountain growing […]
Gilberto Finds New Hope and Healing After a Tragic Accident
When Gilberto woke up from the car accident, the doctors had terrible news. The 19-year-old would struggle to talk — and would never walk again. His head trauma was just too severe. It would have been easy for Gilberto to give up. To let creeping despair take root in his […]
A Night with Esperança Raises Over $150,000 With Alcock & Associates Gift Match
(PHOENIX – September 15, 2022) – Over 250 people attended A Night with Esperança on September 15th in support of Esperança, a Phoenix-based nonprofit dedicated to improving health for families in Arizona and around the world. The cocktail hour, which took place at the Heard Museum, raised more than $150,000 […]
Arming Parents in the Battle Against Malnutrition | Bolivia
Chronic Malnutrition in Rural BoliviaIn Bolivia, 16% of children under the age of 5 struggle with chronic malnutrition, a condition that develops when they do not eat the correct balance of nutrients in the first 1,000 days of life. Both brain and body growth failure can occur, also called “stunted […]
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