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Expedition to Honduras: Snail Soup

10 special little people, now “adoptive Pateplumas” from different origins: Donosti, Barcelona, Almeria, Granada, Leon, Valencia, Venezuela, Ibiza, Teruel…. We met at El Prat...

Nigeria in our hearts.

I want to explain things with images. I want to convey feelings with words. I want to force myself to remember that paralysis feeds...

Gabon, 323 blind people less

This past week our Foundation team, led by Dr. Elena Barraquer and loaded with wonderful volunteers, set off for Gabon, a country where we...

How to become a surgeon on our expeditions?

Candidate surgeons on our expeditions, the first time they travel, regardless of their experience, will participate as consultant ophthalmologists. In this way, they can...

Marruecos – Chaouen 2023

A week after returning from the expedition to Chaouen, I feel able to express in words what I experienced there during those days. I...

Mauritania 2023

Gratitude is the first word that comes to mind when I think of everything I experienced during the expedition in Mauritania. It was a...

After 7 days in Dakar…

I think of solidarity and I think of each of the magnificent companions who have accompanied me on this journey, I think of needs...

2022, an amazing year.

The Elena Barraquer Foundation has operated on a total of 5,264 cataracts during the 14 expeditions it has carried out to countries in Africa...

Cabo Verde 2022

A few years ago, when I entered the office of Dr. Amparo Navea, then director of the FOM (Valencia), on my first day as...
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