Our Projects
Due to the political and economical problems and relocation of Prana's head office from  Guayaquil to Quito we are practically starting our work again from scratches. Most of our projects are in development stage and it is up to our finances, numbers and initiative of volunteers how fast projects will be implemented. This situation gives the volunteers lot more opportunities for initiative and indepedence but require also flexibility and determination as in the beginning not everything go smooth.
Foundation Prana is a new, small, lay charity organization in Ecuador without grants or funding. We base our activities on volunteers work and self-financing.. We provide welfare and health services to poor people but specially to abandoned, abused, neglected, homeless and sick children.
Prana in Manta
*FOOD FOR THE STREET CHILDREN (partially implemented)
street children are problem in all countries, but in third world country this problem is much bigger and harder to resolve. There are runaways due to real or imaginary family or personal problems or adventurers but there are the orphans, abandoned and thrown-out.  And there are a street workers; vendors, shoes cleaners and so on. But they are all hungry. Due to luck of funds our actions are still  not as efficient as needed, but we are hoping to organize regular Community Kitchen.
*PERMANENT MEDICAL  ATTENTION( Implemented)
Health is other big problem in Ecuador. If you are poor and sick-you die . There are Public Hospitals, where attention and food are free but you pay for all laboratory tests, diagnostic equipment, drugs and operations; from blood test to the x-ray. With the minimum wages of $70 a month, social security benefit of $11 a month and prices of medicine close to  those in USA - you have the picture. Prana had a medical team of different doctors in Manta and we are organizing Community  Attention of traditional and alternative medicine in Quito, where cost of attention is $1 for patients not organized in Foundation and free for the participating children and single mothers. Where is necessary-attention is free of charge. During Community  Attention we attend up to 170 patients a day. In medical treatment we apply traditional (orthodox) and alternative medicine, hypnotherapy, psychic healing and holistic massages.
We attend patients with a general health problems but we concentrate on difficult, chronic and "incurable" diseases like cancer, paralysis cerebral infantile, autism, Down syndrome, epilepsy etc.


*FIELD MEDICAL ATTENTION (implemented)
Team of medical doctors and alternative medicine therapists are attending population of the marginal suburbs and little towns.


*BIG BROTHER AND  SISTER (in development)
In family with many children, striving for survival, you hardly get lot of love and attention. Big Brother and Sister project aim at giving a child someone, who care, understand, can help and advise.


*WEEKEND FOSTER FAMILY ( Aunts and Uncles, Grandfathers and Grandmothers) (in development)
This is a mutual benefit program, known already in many countries. The aim is similar as in Big Brother and Sister program. Difference is that selected, approved families or individuals are taking the child for the weekend. In this way mother have a rest, child have an extra attention and fun and foster family or person have benefit of being able to care for a child.


*CHRISTMAS PARTY  FOR THE STREET CHILDREN (Implemented)
It's tradition at Prana to organize every year Christmas Party for street or disadvantaged children. We serve food, give gifts and children participate in dfferent competitions and games. Children also elect Queen of Prana.


*SESIONS OF PSYCHIC  MASS   HEALING (Implemented)
In different towns of Ecuador Prana organize free of charge massive psychic healings in which participate between 1000-3000 at the time. More than 20.000 persons attended those healings
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