SANo (“healthy” in Spanish) is an assemblage of CFHI alumni, their relatives and friends, and others, who agree to receive occasional emails about the most serious health issues that CFHI staff and volunteers encounter among the impoverished children of Sarantañani Trabajador.  The members of SANo are encouraged to donate to help pay for the expensive remedies that specific children require.

    To join SANo, please email Rachel at rmeketon09@amherst.edu.  To donate by credit card, click the "GIVE NOW" link on this page.  Or, mail a check to CFHI: 995 Market Street, Suite 1104, San Francisco, CA 94103 - specifying that the donation is for "SANo".

Sarantañani Trabajador

    The privately and publicly funded Sarantañani Trabajador offers a variety of needed services to children and adolescents who work in the streets of La Paz.  The programs include academic instruction and assistance, cultural activities, meal plans, and professional healthcare.  The clinic, open daily in the afternoons, was installed and is funded by CFHI in La Paz.

    To visit the official Sarantañani Trabajador website, click here.

¡ Nelly !

    Nelly is a six-year-old student, street-worker, and cherished daughter and sister.  She has been diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus - the condition that results when the fetal blood vessel, ductus arteriosus, remains open after birth.  Nelly suffers the following consequences, as recently demonstrated by examinations with a local cardiologist: hypertension in the lungs, which prevents her from sleeping at night, and the enlargement of the heart, which can lead to heart failure in the future.  Another result of the condition has been stunted growth. 

    Each of these problems should be taken care of by a simple surgical procedure that closes the ductus arteriosus - but the surgery cannot be completed until sufficient funds are raised to pay for it.

    For a more detailed explanation of patent ductus arteriosus, please click here.