Posts by Franck Semczak

Medical treatment for 23 children This year, we commemorated Nelson Mandela’s Centenary by supporting the Hogar Esperanza Foundation, which shelters and promotes healthcare to children, newborns and toddlers up to 5 years old. This Foundation repeatedly needs medicines for particularly diseases such as cancer, epilepsy and treatments for growth complications. In order to support the Read More

Empowerment through sport Mandela Day was a celebration of joy in the community. For the second successive year, Aspen Caribbean and Central America (Caricam) positively impacted the lives of more than 80 young athletes, by participating in the annual Costa Rica Special Olympics Organizationi competition. Aspen arranged sporting activities and spent the day with the Read More

Caring for cancer patients On 18 July 18 Aspen Pharma Brazil celebrated Mandela Day with a very special party at Ronald McDonald Institute that develops and coordinates programs that enable early diagnosis, appropriate referral, reception and quality integral care for young patients with cancer and their families. The volunteers spent the morning with the Ronald Read More

Having fun with mentally disabled teenagers The Sikiarideio Institute, a school for disadvantaged teenagers who are mentally disabled, was the chosen as the Mandela Day beneficiary by Aspen Greece. The school supports skills development as well as socialisation adaptation for about 100 teenagers and adults. Numerous workshops are hosted for the learners such as making Read More

Selling flowers, wrapping gifts and raising funds for those in need Aspen’s team from Notre Dame de Bondeville traditionally host Mandela Day initiatives throughout the year, given that July falls within their summer month vacation period. Over the 2017 festive season teams of employees wrapped gifts for donations to raise funds for numerous beneficiaries. These Read More

Making a small difference for people with cerebral palsy “We are different. We move differently. We communicate differently. We see the world from a different perspective. Our day-to-day experience is so profoundly different that others do not just struggle to understand us, they struggle to understand what it is like to be us”- Cerebral Palsy Read More

Performing little miracles for little persons Aspen Slovakia‘s team of volunteers comprising Milan, Denisa, Silvia, Radka, Marcela and Janka decided to improve the children’s playrooms and the bedroom at the Kindergarten in Dvorany nad Nitrou. ThisKindergarten, which was founded in 1980 and was established from the former primary school, accommodates children aged from 3 to Read More

Kiev Central Region South East Region West Region

Developmental stimulation for handicapped, challenged and ill children Warsaw region Ośrodek Wczesnej Interwencji, an Early Intervention Center in Warsaw, offers complex diagnosis, specialized family counselling services and individual therapy by expert psychologists, physiotherapists, logopaedians and educators for children experiencing delayed or irregular development such as speech defects, or who are mentally handicapped. Some 1 800 Read More

Supporting Dubai’s less fortunate community As part of the Ramadan spirit, Aspen HealthCare had the chance to make a difference as a team and help people in need by taking part in the Sharing Fridges initiative, licensed under the patronage of the Emirates Red Crescent. The initiative began in 2016 with the formation of a Read More