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Development cooperation
A total of €3.6 million was spent in 2007 on 36 projects in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, reaching 189,246 direct beneficiaries and another 809,927 by indirect means.
Support under the call went to projects in education, primary healthcare and sanitation or to enhance productivity and wealth creation, guided at all times by the “Millennium Development Goals”. Priority on this as on other occasions went to more vulnerable collectives like women and children.
Emergency Aid Plan
Obra Social’s other cooperation resource, the Emergency Aid Plan, continued its partnerships with Bomberos Unidos sin Fronteras, Acción contra el Hambre and Médicos del Mundo, to deliver immediate help in situations of humanitarian crisis. Since it was first started, aid has gone to more than forty countries in the form of rescue and evacuation, provision of drinking water and sanitation, and basic nutritional, health and food safety assistance for people in situations of hardship. In 2007, the Emergency Aid Plan reached 479,700 persons.