fundacio@fevillavecchia.es
Address
- Sant Antoni Mª Claret, 167
- 08025 - Barcelona
- Tel. +34 93 435 30 24
- Fax +34 93 436 75 49
- http://www.fevillavecchia.es
- fundacio@fevillavecchia.es
What is the Foundation?
The Enriqueta Villavecchia is a private foundation for pediatric oncology founded in 1989 in Barcelona. It seeks to improve the quality of life of children, young adults with cancer, and to help the families resident in Catalonia.
Children with cancer experience drastic changes in their lives. This in turn affects the lives of their immediate families due to:
- Hospital internment
- A lack of information, plus mental anguish and hours of tedium
- The possible loss of an entire year of schooling
- Their parents forced absence from work
- Hair loss
- Long journeys for treatment
- A lack of economic resources
These are amongst the many problems related to such a serious illness when this in itself is enough of a burden.
We provide material and psychological support, improving the physical and family environment. We seek to allow the child to cope with the disease and its consequences in the most dignified way possible. This in turn contributes to the possiblity of curing the illness.
We attempt, in short, to improve the children’s quality of life and their complete integration in society.
The Foundation is active in all Catalan hospitals that operate pediatric oncological units: Sant Joan de Déu, Materno Infantil de Vall d’Hebrón, German Trias i Pujol of Badalona, Sant Pau, Corporació Sanitaria Parc Taulí of Sabadell, etc.
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