BHHS Legacy Foundation has awarded grant funding in the amount of $75,000 to Esperança for Health Education Programs. The monies granted will go towards health-related preventative education programs, including obesity prevention, oral health and chronic disease management to underserved families who live in Central Phoenix or the neighborhoods that line
Arizona Families Receive Care Packages
Thanks to our generous donors, we collected and distributed 150 health and hygiene kits to children and families at our partner sites throughout Phoenix. The kits were full of much needed hygiene supplies such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, deodorant, shampoo, lotion and dental floss, to help the families get off
Supply Drive for Hope
Esperança is holding a summer drive to collect surgical equipment for our international programs and hygiene supplies for our domestic programs. This fall, Esperança will send an entire sea shipment container full of donated medical goods to its partners in Central and South America for use in their clinics and hospitals. We accept both
Esperança partners with Murphy Education Center for Mother’s Day Celebration
Esperança and The Murphy Education Center are hosting an invitation only event to celebrate Mothers on Friday, May 9 from 8:30-11:30am at the Murphy Education Center. The Murphy Education Center is a free medical and dental clinic and home to the Murphy Elementary School District offices. Esperança is proud
Medical Supply Driver
Each year, Esperança is able to send a 40-foot container packed full of donated medical supplies to the developing world. These donations are used by local health professionals, as well as by our own volunteer surgical teams to change the lives of poor through operations and medical services. All of
The Aetna Foundation Grants $30,000 to Expand Esperança’s Salud con Sabor Latino Program
The Aetna Foundation has awarded grant funding in the amount of $30,000 to Esperança for Salud con Sabor Latino (Health with a Latin Flavor). The funding provided will allow Esperança staff to provide nutrition, healthy eating and physical activity education to un-and-under-insured families living in poverty in the Phoenix metro
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grants $190,000 to Expand Esperança’s Health Education Program in Central Phoenix
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has awarded Esperança $190,000 to expand its Health Education Program in Central Phoenix. The program targets children in the communities located along the 1-17 corridor in Central Phoenix, roughly south of Peoria Avenue, north of Lower Buckeye, east of 43rd Avenue and west of 16th
HELP ESPERANCA BY VOLUNTEERING TO BE A CHRISTMAS ANGEL
The holidays can be a tough time for Valley families struggling to make ends meet. For 11 consecutive years, Esperança has coordinated a Christmas Angel program to make sure low-income families have gifts for the holidays and we are looking for sponsors for this year’s program.
Sponsors will receive a