
Health
Health: Saving Lives, Building Futures
Fundación Nahuel is committed to improving the health and well-being of children and youth in Ecuador. Our health initiatives focus on critical areas such as cardiology, ophthalmology, and malnutrition, ensuring access to medical treatments, medicines, and ongoing support.
Health is vital for breaking the cycle of poverty and ensuring children can grow, learn, and thrive. Unfortunately, Ecuador’s healthcare system often falls short, especially for vulnerable families. Through targeted programs and partnerships, we provide immediate interventions and long-term care to save lives and prevent lifelong disabilities.
Children supported
Focus Areas: Cardiology, Ophthalmology, and Malnutrition
years of
Impact

4 Stories of 109

Maycol Alejandro Taype Lema
12 yearsMaycol and her family migrated from the countryside to a sub-urban neighborhood south of Quito, they are indigenous people from the highlands, living in overcrowded conditions. The family consists of her parents and 8 siblings. Her father has informal and sporadic jobs in the market, her mother sells fruits and vegetables in the streets.
Diabetes
Help: Examinations of laboratory and medicines
Cost: $ 125,00

Riofrio Collaguazo Carlos Manuel
20 yearsCarlos is Carmen's brother, he also suffers from chronic renal insufficiency, his disease is more advanced. He receives dialysis 2 days a week in the public health system and is waiting for a kidney donor to receive a transplant.
Chronic renal insufficiency
Help: medicines and nutritional supplements specific to your disease
Cost: $ 210,85

Rodríguez Naranjo Ana Valentina
20 yearsValentina is the second of 5 siblings, she is an orphan of her father, her mother was deprived of her freedom from the time Valentina was 8 years old until she was 16 years old.
She and her siblings have always lived with their maternal grandmother, who has raised and cared for them. She is now quite old and very ill.
Dermatology- Eczema acute chronic
Help: Medicines
Cost: $ 82.00

Rodríguez Loor Arianna Mayerli
22 yearsArianna is in college and lives with her mother and 4 younger siblings. Her father does not live with them; he left home when she was very young. The family depends solely on her mother who is a domestic worker.
Ophthalmologic and neurological
Diagnosis: Conjunctivitis and idiotropic headache.
Help: Medicines
Cost: $ 95.00
Ecuador faces significant health challenges, especially in rural and marginalized areas where access to specialized care is scarce. The high costs of treatments for congenital conditions, such as heart defects or severe malnutrition, leave many families without options. Foundations like Nahuel step in to fill this gap, providing resources, coordination, and medical support that change lives.