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Primer Simposio de Enfermedad de Parkinson, Huntington y Enfermedades Huérfanas

  Its almost time to visit Colombia! Here is the link to the meeting we will be participating it at the end of the 2 week trip to visit the Colombian Communities. I hope we will have a positive impact for the patients, their families, the physicians and the regulatory…

Upcoming visit to Colombia in April

Our next trip to visit our Colombian friends and HD family is happening soon- from April 10-24, 2016. We are planning on going to Choco, Santa Marta, Juan de Acosta, Barranquilla, Medellin and Bogota. This time around, our friend and English journalist Dara Mohammadi (see his page!) from the prestigious…

Campaign 'de Abrazos' - 'Hugs' to benefit the Colombian patients. Go to you tube and donate!

AcolpEH just launched a new campaign called ‘Hugs’ – to raise funding towards the benefit of Colombian families, as well as to start fundraising to build a care center for the affected families https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABsvfEPT2E Please go and donate- right now the video is in Spanish but translation will come soon…

AcolpEH launches a video thanking Factor-H commitment to Colombian HD families

AcolpEH, the national HD patient association based in Bogota has been working with Factor-H for a few years in trying to develop aid programs to benefit the many affected families in Colombia. Based in Bogota, AcolpEH’s founder Janeth Mosquera issued a video recently where several of the families who received…

Donations for the Colombian patients

in 2015, we were able to raise US $20,000 in donations from pharmaceutical companies, which is being allocated to a variety of projects in Colombia. The goal is to help the neediest families as well as invest in longer term projects, such as the creation of an audio-visual guide to…

First home renovation project completed in Medellin with the help of Acolpeh and Habitat for Humanity!

In April 2014, the first home renovation project started in Medellin, as a collaborative project between Factor-H, Habitat for Humanity, and Acolpeh. Together we raised over US$8000 through the Habitat web site, and together we identified a few families in need of improved housing conditions. The first project took 3…

Clothes get delivered to communities in need - thank you friends for supporting Factor-H efforts

Finally, we were able to donate more than 500 pounds of clothes for the Colombian communities. DHL sent the boxes free of charge to Factor-H, courtesy of Conexion Colombia, an NGO who financed the shipment. The clothes were sent to El Dificil (Magdalena State), Juan de Acosta, Bogota, Medellin, and…

Articulo sobre Juan de Acosta en Colombia

La poblacion de la EH de Juan de Acosta es una de las poblaciones mas grandes del mundo en cuanto a prevalencia de la enfermedad. Hace algo mas de un año visite a esta comunidad en Colombia, donde me reuni con el Dr. Daza, el neurologo que llevaba tratando a…

clothes donated by Factor-H arrive in the communities in Colombia

500 pounds (300+ kilograms) of donated clothes have arrived at several communities in Colombia. Thanks to the Conexion Colombia NGO (www.conexioncolombia.com) , all the donated clothes Factor-H collected in Los Angeles have made it to their destinations. This is the first ‘international’ shipment of donated goods to benefit the Colombian…

PLEASE DONATE TO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HD PROJECT IN COLOMBIA!

  NOV 06 2013 PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION. Habitat for humanity and Factor-H, my other ‘job’, started a collaboration together with the Colombian family association (AcolpEH), to raise funds for patients living in suboptimal conditions in Colombia. Find the link here: http://share.habitat.org/fighting-huntingtons We are very behind, and we need…
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