Since our launch in 1998, we have promoted various eye health projects at the local level (Mallorca) and we have collaborated with different international cooperation entities to carry out care and surgical campaigns in Africa and Latin America. Our action programmes are always developed under the premise of sustainability over time, as we do not pursue immediate action, but rather we are committed to its durability. <\/p>\n
We believe that when we help a person to solve their vision problem we are contributing, even indirectly, to providing greater well-being, but also to modifying the living conditions of the community to which they belong, offering them new reasons for illusion and hope. For this reason, our commitment to the areas where we provide our help is maximum.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_custom_heading text=”Local projects” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27px|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][divider line_type=”Small Line” line_alignment=”default” line_thickness=”8″ divider_color=”default” animate=”yes” custom_height=”100″ custom_line_width=”120″][vc_custom_heading text=”The accompaniment work carried out by the local entities with which we have collaboration agreements is essential for our work, due to their prior knowledge of the context in which they operate and the existing problems and their potential when it comes to promoting processes of social change that benefit the living conditions of the people and groups they serve.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” 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column_border_style=”solid” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][image_with_animation image_url=”2627″ animation=”Fade In From Left” hover_animation=”none” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” constrain_group_5=”yes” constrain_group_6=”yes” alignment=”right” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”175%” max_width_mobile=”default” margin_top=”5″ margin_bottom=”5″ margin_left=”5″ margin_right=”5″ margin_top_tablet=”5″ margin_bottom_tablet=”5″ margin_left_tablet=”5″ margin_right_tablet=”5″ margin_top_phone=”5″ margin_bottom_phone=”5″ margin_left_phone=”5″ margin_right_phone=”5″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”A LOCAL LOOK” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css_animation=”bottom-to-top” css=”.vc_custom_1540814221175{padding-right: 10% !important;}”]It is a stable ophthalmological and optometric care program aimed at the most vulnerable groups in Mallorca, who lack economic resources and have difficulties in health coverage. <\/span><\/p>\n Based on the collaboration agreement we have with the Oftalmedic Salv\u00e0 group, all the patients we refer to them are treated according to the same standards of medical and care quality as any other patient. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”2%” bottom_padding=”2%” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left-right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][image_with_animation image_url=”2627″ animation=”Fade In From Left” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”right” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”175%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”60″ bottom_padding=”60″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”International cooperation” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27px|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][divider line_type=”Small Line” line_alignment=”default” line_thickness=”8″ divider_color=”default” animate=”yes” custom_height=”100″ custom_line_width=”120″][vc_column_text]In addition to developing our solidarity work locally, we extend this work beyond our natural environment (Mallorca), through eye health projects in Third World countries integrated in the \u201cAn international perspective\u201d<\/strong> program, since international cooperation is a high priority line of action within our objectives.<\/p>\n We are aware of the importance of optimal visual health, and for this reason, we are moving to the poorest countries in the world where the lack of health resources is a determining factor in the visual impairments they suffer, many of them avoidable.<\/p>\n This task requires the involvement of highly qualified medical and health personnel, with the ability to solve complex problems, as well as continuous effort, since we have in our hands the opportunity to completely change a person’s life in a few minutes and offer them a better future.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”4%” bottom_padding=”7%” text_color=”dark” 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tablet_cols_flickity=”1″ flickity_controls=”default” color=”default” flickity_overflow=”hidden” flickity_wrap_around=”wrap” pagination_alignment_flickity=”default” flickity_spacing=”default” column_padding=”30px” flickity_element_spacing=”default” border_radius=”none” autorotate=”true” autorotation_speed=”10000″][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=”default” simple_slider_overlay_strength=”0.3″ id=”1658923343465-5″ tab_id=”1658923343467-2″ title=”Elemento”][vc_column_text]\n The challenge of this surgical expedition that took us to Mauritania was to perform ophthalmological surgery to prevent blindness, given the lack of means when it comes to treating the diseases that cause it.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n In many cases, these are treatable forms of blindness linked to the presence of cataracts, even in people who are not very old. Through the specialized medical care that we make available to the population, we contribute to the almost complete rehabilitation of people who are absolutely disabled and who even depend on another person to walk. <\/u><\/u><\/p>\n This mission is part of the international cooperation project \u201cNouadhibou Vision<\/b><\/a>\u201d, promoted by the Jorge Ali\u00f3 Foundation<\/a><\/b> in 2007 on the occasion of the first expedition to the city of Nouadhibou, in Mauritania.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n In the first phase, efforts are focused on the child population and then ophthalmological care is extended to the general population. Ten years later, in order to respond to the growing needs of the 300,000 inhabitants living in this area of Africa, the only eye hospital in Mauritania and Saharan Africa was inaugurated, very popular in the city and in its area of influence and integrated into the national health system. <\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”4572,4576,4580,4584″ image_grid_loading=”default” layout=”constrained_fullwidth” item_spacing=”1px” gallery_style=”5″ load_in_animation=”none” el_class=”galeria-proyectos”][vc_column_text]\n Nouadhibou Vision 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Mauritania<\/em><\/p>\n 1 \/ 4<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/item][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=”default” simple_slider_overlay_strength=”0.3″ id=”1658923343536-1″ tab_id=”1658923343537-1″ title=”Elemento”][vc_column_text]In the La Libertad District of Trujillo, in Peru, there is a huge garbage dump known as El Milagro, in which about 40,000 people live working in conditions of extreme poverty, since their only economic activity is the collection by hand of the waste that accumulates there and around which this population center is built.<\/p>\n The complicated socio-economic situation of the population determines the existence of multiple needs to be met, both in the health and educational fields. For this reason, we decided to join the cooperation project of comprehensive support for the community jointly promoted by Voluntaris de Mallorca<\/strong><\/a> and Sister Catalina Vallespir, a religious of Mallorcan origin and member of Caritas Trujillo<\/strong><\/a>, who has been living in this area of the world for 35 years. <\/p>\n In order to support the children of the region, who are the future generators of change in their communities and in their country, we implement a visual health program consisting of carrying out optometric and ophthalmological check-ups on students at the Toni Real and Aroldo Otegui schools and their families and providing them with prescription glasses on a regular basis to improve their vision conditions.<\/p>\n In 2018, in order to take a further step in favor of the population of El Milagro, a medical dispensary was set up at the Toni Real school, which serves 300 students between 3 and 17 years old, thanks to the proceeds obtained at the solidarity gala on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of our foundation.<\/p>\n