We are
We help the most vulnerable people.
We are where nobody looks.
We work with people nobody looks at.
We research diseases people ignore.
We develop projects that bring about change in societies, people and countries so they can have a quality health system.
where nobody else is
Universal health is a right, not a privilege.
At Anesvad Foundation, we have spent over 50 years working to guarantee access to health
for people who live in the world’s most impoverished communities.
We create opportunities to improve their future through initiatives and projects that change
their reality.
Not forgetting them means to not forget who we are and what we do.
Bilbao
Origins
1950s
Anesvad Foundation came into being to help the sick and their families at the Santa Marina Antituberculosis Sanatorium in Bilbao.
800 families supported
Filipinas
Leprosy
1970s
During the 1970s, we started to carry out interventions in impoverished countries through a project to fight leprosy, led by Jesuit Javier Olazabal, on the island of Culion, Philippines, the place with the greatest concentration of people with this disease in the world.
16.000 people treated
Asia and Latin America
Human trafficking
1990s
From the 1990s onwards, we consolidated work in over 22 countries to combat human trafficking and improve quality of life and well-being for impoverished communities in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Asia, Latin America and Africa
The right to health
2000s
Since 2007, our purpose has been focused on fighting to ensure all people, wherever they are, have the Right to Health guaranteed.
Sub-Saharan Africa
NTDs
Today
We currently work in Sub-Saharan Africa, combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases, illnesses people in the most impoverished conditions suffer from. We place emphasis on Buruli ulcer, yaws, leprosy and lymphatic filariasis.
We are building so one day we don’t have to exist.
Meet our team
We fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, strengthening public
health systems from a human rights focus.
