The Fundació Ordesa continues to carry out additional initiatives with a view to creating graphic materials for professionals, educational and informative purposes:

Funding of the publication of the book: “Basic Perinatal Care”.

Targets
This book targets empirical or traditional midwives of underdeveloped countries, where a substantial reduction in the mortality rates of mothers and children is possible and necessary.

Creation and dissemination of leaflets:

Targets
It is distributed in the Paediatric Departments of Primary Care Centres and Hospitals in Spain, in areas where the population is comprised mainly of immigrants.

Over the last few weeks, 8 sessions have been held (coffee talk) within the framework of the collaboration agreement with the Fundación Marianao.

All the talks were held in the Head Offices of the Fundación Marianao, with a very good turnout, and great interest was shown in the presentations by the speakers.

The general topic of the sessions was "Health Through Food".

Funding for the publication of the book called “I cook, you paint”.

Targets
General public.

Last October, the Fundació ORDESA and the Fundació MARIANAO signed a collaboration agreement.

In it, the two organisations establish mechanisms of information and communication targeting mutual support in the promotion of activities of interest to both parties and within their respective areas.

They have developed an operating plan that provides for a series of activities through conferences, chats, workshops and radio broadcasts in which the Fundació ORDESA collaborates with the contribution of different health professionals, and with a view to improving the knowledge of health and nutrition in very different groups, such as young people, mothers and elderly people who are concerned about their health.

The Fundació MARIANAO will provide support in the dissemination of the activities carried out by the Fundació ORDESA and those they perform jointly. Similarly, the Fundació MARIANAO will place its installations at the disposal of the Fundació ORDESA for any social and/or training activities it deems of interest for the Foundation's own purposes.

The Fundació ORDESA is an institution whose mission as a foundation is to support and improve the nutrition and health conditions of children, mainly new-borns, infants and children in their early years of life.

To this end, in the course of 2008, the Fundació ORDESA made various donations of baby food, milk products and cereals, basically, to 12 health-care organisations that deliver these products directly to families in need, or which collaborate in such distribution to other Associations/NGOs.

Overall, it donated 45,000 kg of baby food to the value of 490,000 €.

In 2008, the Fundació ORDESA collaborated with the Fundación TALITA through the purchase and distribution of 1,600 solidarity calendars published by TALITA to collect funds to raise awareness and achieve the total integration of disabled children in school, occupational and social life.

Funding for the publication of the book “Recommendations and guidelines for perinatal medicine”.

Description
Collective work with the collaboration of 48 international specialists identified by the Council of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine, and coordinated by the doctors:

J.M.Carrera. Obstetrician, Secretary General of the WAPM and President of Matres Mundi.
X.Carbonell. Paediatrician, Vice-president of the Sociedad Española de Neonatología.
E.Fabre. Perinatologist, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Zaragoza.

Targets
Targeting the hospital departments of under-developed countries to achieve a substantial reduction in the figure of maternal and perinatal mortality.

Production and dissemination of leaflets.

Description
Instructions for the correct preparation of bottles and babyfoods.
Translated into four languages.

Targets
They have been distributed in the Paediatric Departments of primary care centres and hospitals in Spain.