Building Health
with Care
Help promote health care and health education among the children, women, and disadvantaged individuals of the Dominican Republic.
Watch how we’re effecting change in the Dominican Republic.
The need for proper health care in the Dominican Republic is critical. In numerous communities, children, women, and the disadvantaged face life-threatening risks due to unavailable or inadequate health care facilities and services — lacking access to the treatment of emergency, acute, and chronic illnesses — as well as forgoing proper maternal, prenatal and child health care; immunizations from disease; proper nutrition and diets; and preventive health care education and practices.
Our Mission
The mission of the Marela Children’s Foundation is straight-forward: to promote health care and health education to the children, women, and the disadvantaged of the Dominican Republic.
We also hope that our mission will further support the peace, meaningful development, and sustained and cherished relationship that exists between the people of the United States and the Dominican Republic.
The need for proper health care in the Dominican Republic is critical.
In numerous communities, children, women, and the disadvantaged face life-threatening risks due to unavailable or inadequate health care facilities and services — lacking access to the treatment of emergency, acute, and chronic illnesses — as well as forgoing proper maternal, prenatal and child health care; immunizations from disease; proper nutrition and diets; and preventive health care education and practices.
“A child in the Dominican Republic is six times more likely to die before the age of two than a child in the United States; a mother there faces a 30 times greater risk of dying during childbirth than a mother giving birth in the United States.”
– Project HOPE
Our Recent Projects
The Juan López polyclinic
The Juan López polyclinic is a community-based outpatient health care clinic that serves more than 1,200 patients each month in the Juan Lopez Arriba district (population 26,000) of the city of Moca in the Dominican Republic.
The Higuerito Policlinic
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