APROQUEN initiates Prevention Campaign in elementary schools

July 2011

Workers from Casa Pellas & Flor de Caña join the project Libros APROQUEN

Physicians for Peace award “the best of the best”

Unilever, thinking of our children

Claro awards solidarity towards APROQUEN

The Asociación Pro Niños Quemados de Nicaragua, APROQUEN, initiated during the second semester of the year a prevention campaign targeted to elementary schools, in order to teach young children to recognize the risks of burn injuries. The campaign's strategy is composed of an educational segment that includes a test that measures their knowledge about the risk factors they encounter at home. In addition, the children are also given crayons and coloring books that contain messages related to preventive measures. Also and in much the same way, skits are presented to teach children how to react upon a possible accident. Towards the end of the Campaign in November of this year, more than two thousand children will have received the message replicating it in their homes and communities.

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APROQUEN initiates

Prevention Campaign

in elementary schools

Childrens from the school Esmeralda Gutiérrez de Monimbó, Masaya

Sr. Carlos PellasSr. Joe Clark

Workers from

Casa Pellas & Flor de Caña

join the project

Libros APROQUEN

Personal from Casa pellas

Workers from Compañía Licorera de NicaraguaBook examples from the proyect Libros APROQUEN

This Campaign is possible thanks to the sponsoring of: Fundación César Guerrero, Dicegsa, Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas and the Cuerpo de Bomberos del Ingenio San Antonio. As well as to the support of physiotherapy students from POLISAL and volunteers.

A donation that trespasses the sum of 22 thousand dollars was received by APROQUEN on behalf of workers from Casa Pellas and Flor de Caña, who in July joined the project Libros APROQUEN by obtaining a copy that will benefit children suffering from burn injuries.

The check was presented to Mrs. Vivian Pellas by officials from Casa Pellas and Flor de Caña. A total of 739 books were purchased.

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Alejandra Reinoso, Héctor Gaitán and Auxiliadora Abea.

María José Rocha receiving her prizeAmérica Mayorga receiving her prize

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Unilever, thinking

of our children

The company UNILEVER handed to APROQUEN last month a donation of ten boxes of Simple Vaseline, a vital ointment for the physiotherapeutic procedure of our children.

APROQUEN thanks UNILEVER for this noble act.

As part of the allegiance, APROQUEN-CLARO, clients from CLARO with celular prepaid and postpaid cellphone lines that sent the word APROQUEN to the number 3662, were awarded with prizes. Through this system, a weekly donation of $0.25 is received and prizes are given once a month to a total of five lucky winners.

Claro awards solidarity

towards APROQUEN

Physicians for Peace award

“the best of the best”

Emily Tinsley

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Every year, the international organization Physicians for Peace (Médicos por la Paz), through a thorough process of selection, identify a healthcare professional or nurse as "the best of the best". This year, they have chosen to grant this great international award to nurse Emily Tinsley, for her selfless work and dedication towards the benefit of others. Tinsley was one of the first volunteers to join The Burn Injuries Program of Aproquen through PFP, making immeasurable contributions to the areas of development and education within the Program in the Central American and Caribbean Region, which was also the acknowledgement given by Ron Sconyers, President of Physicians for Peace.