Help Venezuelan Orphans: Food, Medicine, Education

SAI Grows Help for Orphans by Supporting Two More Orphanages

Thanks to your generous donations we are now expanding our care for Venezuelan orphans. In the past, we have supported four different orphanages. Now we are in a position to add two more orphanages where we will continue to provide food, medicine, and medical care for these abandoned children.

SAI's New Medical Clinic Helps Children 4-Days-A-Week

Our new medical clinic in Valencia is now exclusively seeing children four-days-a-week. Most of these children are from the orphanages we support. We have also recently started a program that features one of our medical doctors visiting an orphanage once a week to perform medical exams on all the children.

This is a Godsend for these children as many of them have medical conditions that do not require hospitalization but need the care of a medical doctor to diagnose and prescribe medicines that can care for various medical conditions of the orphans.

For example, in one of our new orphanages, many of the children were experiencing bouts of diarrhea caused by drinking contaminated water and eating rotten food. After their medical examinations, the doctor determined that they had bacterial parasites and worms feeding in their stomachs. These children were exposed to dirty drinking water and bad food before they came to the orphanage. 

Antibiotics Solve Most Stomach Problems

Since we provide clean drinking water and fresh food to the orphanages we support, bad water and rotten food are not problems. But worms and bacterial parasites do not go away by simply drinking purified water and eating clean food. It takes a 14-day regimen of antibiotics to rid these kids of their stomach issues.

Once they get these medications, everything changes. Now they can spend their time playing, having fun, and studying instead of hiding in the bathroom all day in case they have an accident.

Super Sick Kids Go To The Hospital

Some of the children that visit our new clinic and those we see at the orphanages have severe conditions. These children are critically sick and need hospitalization. We send them to local hospitals along with an adult advocate to make sure they get the care they need. We also provide medicine and food for the children that are admitted to the hospitals.

All Orphans Now Get Regular Medical Exams

To help prevent these dire situations we have established a protocol that all orphans get regular medical exams. In this  way,  we can be sure that the kids are healthy and those that need professional medical care receive the care they need in a timely manner.

Make Sure These Kids are Not Forgotten

Prior to SAI offering full healthcare to each orphan, many of these kids were suffering from conditions that occur due to insufficient medical care. Our mission is to make sure these children are not forgotten and that when the politics and economy improve in Venezuela, they will be good candidates for adoption or in good health when their parents are   reunited with their children.

Future Young Adults Best Hope for Venezuela

As time passes, many of these orphans will outgrow their orphan status and become prospering young adults who are tasked with rebuilding Venezuela. Caring for these children assures that as they mature, they realize how important it is to help others in their deepest time of need and to keep the spirit of hope alive. 

Help Us Increase Orphanage Food Deliveries by 20%

As the orphanages continue to accept abandoned children, they need more food and medicine to provide for the additional kids. That's why our goal is to increase our biweekly food deliveries by 20%. Growing children need more food, more medicine, more educational materials, and of course, more love! Your donations make this possible.

The orphans we support, our SAI staff and volunteers, are grateful for your commitment to helping and your generous giving. You are truly walking the walk and talking the talk of delivering desperately needed humanitarian aid to Venezuelan orphans. Thank you! 

Who Feeds Orphans When The Parents Have Gone?

Valencia, Venezuela - South American Initiative has a team of volunteers and staff - in the country - that see first hand how the current political and economic crisis affects the most vulnerable victims: abandoned children.

SAI Feeds the Children When the Parents are Gone

With help from generous GlobalGiving donors like you, SAI feeds the children when the parents are gone. Our mission is to help people in their deepest time of need and the people who need help the most right now are young children in orphanages.

In the past three months - with help from GlobalGiving donors - SAI has provided the following:

• AUGUST: 5,421 meals provided to orphan children
• SEPTEMBER: 5,720 meals provided to orphans children
• OCTOBER: 5,922 meals provided to orphans children

SAI Delivers Food & Medicine to Four Orphanages

South American Initiative currently supports four different orphanages in Venezuela. We provide bi-weekly fresh food deliveries and medicines for these abandoned children. 

When we make our deliveries the children’s eyes light up because they know there will be no shortage of food today thanks to SAI donors and volunteers.

These Abandoned Kids are Starting to Flourish

Take a look at the photos of the orphan children in this report. As you can see, they look happy, healthy, clean, and well cared for. This is possible because people like you have been gracious in sharing and giving their time and money to provide for these abandoned kids. Without your help, many would perish while others might become easy prey for predators trafficking children as sex slaves.

Stomach problems from drinking contaminated water

Our medical team has advised us that 60% of children under the age of five have gastrointestinal problems from drinking contaminated water. To solve this problem SAI is working to provide clean drinking water by installing commercial-grade water filtration systems at each of our orphanages.

Help Us Buy a Water Filtration System To Supply Clean Drinking Water

These water filtration systems are expensive, but they can solve many medical problems and save more money than they cost in doctor visits and medications. This water filtration system cost just under $2,200. After that, the only expense is replacing the water filters. 

Help Us Complete This Project!

We started this project with a goal to raise $20,000. Right now we are at $5,348. We are just over 25% of the way there and need an additional $14,652 to complete our goal. As a GlobalGiving donor, we ask that you continue to help these orphan children. Your donations make living in Venezuela as an orphan a little brighter! Donate today! Thank You! 

This project reflects generous donations made from GlobalGiving and SAI donors.