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Fundación Ruth Paz
The Ruth Paz Foundation has been helping the poor children of Honduras for forty years. It is named after its founder, a very special woman who dedicated her life to helping the needy children of Honduras and was known as the Guardian Angel. For thirty years, Ruth personally took children to the U.S. for medical treatment who otherwise would have had no chance of receiving any treatment and in many cases would have not continued to live.
Today her work is carried out by her family and by a network of volunteers who want her work and her memory to live on. The Foundation assists in bringing medical teams to Honduras to provide the poor with free medical treatment that they otherwise could not receive in this country.
One of the foundation's most urgent projects is the construction of a much needed burn unit. The mortality rate of burn victims is excessively high in Honduras, deaths that could be prevented with an adequate burn unit. Having a fully operational burn unit available in Honduras would also eliminate the added expense of having to transport many of the burn victims to the U.S., which oftentimes requires the use of a very expensive air ambulance.
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