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PRESENTATION
processes, in Lebanon, Paraguay, Guatemala, Ecuador, India, and Sri Lanka; or improving maternal and child health in Ethiopia. In addition, she has been the focus of our Christmas campaign, so that the lack of resources does not prevent her from continuing her studies in the current context of a crisis in Venezuela.
But our support for women has also been carried out in Europe: in Portugal, Lithuania or Estonia, we have supported social initiatives that promote their comprehensive education and their role in society. And in Spain, the Youth Mun Madrid initiative, which promotes the leadership of young women from Madrid and the Canary Islands at school age, through its participation in the United Nations Models, has launched its second edition.
Also, as a result of the war in Syria, and thanks to the support of the MADAD Trust Fund, we have worked with the objective of improving access to health services for the vulnerable and vulnerable local population in Lebanon, attending to mental health and psychosocial support in Zahle (Beqaa Valley). Guatemala has also been a priority in our humanitarian work, in aid of those affected by the eruption of the “Volcán de Fuego”.
After this brief presentation, I encourage you to discover in the pages of the Report many other activities that seek to promote human development in all its aspects.
Remind you, finally, that all this work would not be possible without your support. All of you –funders, partners, donors, volunteers, and friends– make this possible, and therefore you are part of this Institution and its history. Therefore, one more year, thank you.
Dear friends:
I have the pleasure of presenting you the Annual Report of activities and economic information of the Social Promotion Foundation corresponding to the year 2018.
I would not like to start without expressing, first of all, my deepest regret for the death, on June 26, 2018, of Pilar Lara Alén, Founder and for many years President of the Foundation.
Since 1987, Pilar put at the service of this institution, which first gave life and strengthened afterward, her excellent personal and professional qualities, and worked for it tirelessly and generously, being a reference and an example to follow for all those who we could meet her.
Proof of this has been the multiple messages of condolence, along with words of admiration and recognition of the professional and human face of Pilar, received from personalities and institutions from many countries in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe: H.M. Queen Sofía, Spanish and foreign diplomats, members of the Roman Curia and institutions of the Church, representatives of social organizations and friends.
The entire staff of the Foundation, grateful and aware of all that we have inherited from Pilar, we have the firm intention to continue her legacy: to put the free and responsible person and their dignity at the center of our work and make it the protagonist of their own developing.
To that end, I would like to highlight the approval of two new agreements in 2018, funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), to work for rural development in Palestine and Ethiopia, fully involving the local population, with actions that help the correct management and access to water resources and agricultural development and, consequently, improve food security.
These new activities will help to continue strengthening our experience in this sector, promoted this year in the West Bank, Gaza, Peru or Nicaragua, and also in regions of Bolivia and Mozambique, where access to safe water and proper sanitation has been guaranteed.
On the other hand, we have worked for women in our projects, for their education and vocational training, favoring their labor insertion and in the productive
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