Three decades ago, the Cudeca Foundation set up to care for, relieve, accompany, and offer specialised palliative care to patients living in the province of Malaga suffering from cancer and other advanced and terminal illnesses and offer support and comfort to their families. With this vision, Joan Hunt started this charitable project following the death of her husband. " It was from that moment when Joan started with a little shop raising funds to what it is today. We have ten rooms. We help the sick and their families, with a day centre, a team of nine mobile units made up of nurses and doctors who go to the patients' homes to look after them, imagine...", declared Cudeca's Head of Communications and Fundraising, Mónica Ruiz.
The Foundation co-founder, Marisa Marín, pointed out that Cudeca "has a special way of caring in which we have not only involved doctors, psychologists, and nurses who are prepared to care, but also volunteers, the community or people who want to be part of Cudeca".
On Saturday, Mijas hosted a charity lunch with which Cudeca thanked all those people and institutions for collaborating with the Foundation. "Finally, we can have all our collaborators, all the people who help us daily in our work with Cudeca.
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Support for Cudeca
The Mijas Town Hall praised Cudeca's work. "It does work that no one else does. The Costa del Sol Hospital refers patients in a terminal situation to be cared for at Cudeca. Mijas Town Hall is aware of the importance of this work and contributes a significant amount of money every year, around 40,000 euros," said the Councillor for Social Services, Hipólito Zapico (PSOE). The PP spokesman in the Mijas Town Hall, Ángel Nozal, declared that "Cudeca is perhaps the NGO to which we all owe the most as it takes care of us all and our relatives, in the last moments altruistically. I believe everything we do for them will always be too little".
Volunteers and relatives also highlighted the organisation's track record. "I understand that there are people who feel good about altruism, but I'm not looking to feel good. I think we should all do it. I don't think it's what you get. It's what you give," said Patrick Boyle, who has been a volunteer at the Foundation for eight years. It is worth remembering the organisation has cared for and accompanied more than 17,000 people.
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