Financial Support for NGOs

VAPF Group has once again collaborated with the Association of Parents with Children suffering from Cancer in the Valencian Community - ASPANION, in the financing of its 2024 Christmas Toy Campaign for Children and Adolescents with Cancer.

The escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip is having a catastrophic impact on the physical and emotional well-being and mental health of children. 44% of the population in Gaza are children who, due to the hostilities, have been forced to flee, many of them unaccompanied. Most are taking refuge in overcrowded conditions, living under siege, facing hunger, threats, and explosions. At Grupo VAPF, we wanted to collaborate financially with UNICEF so they can continue working to reach the most vulnerable and offer them safety and protection.

The VAPF Group is once again collaborating with the Association of Parents of Children with Cancer of the Valencian Community - ASPANION, this time, by donating to the La Fe Health Research Institute (IIS La Fe). The donation will go to the HEICOP project “Towards excellence in clinical research in paediatric oncology: new drugs and therapeutic procedures in the cure of children and adolescents with cancer” led by Dr. Adela Cañete, head of the Pediatric Oncology Unit at the La Fe Hospital and researcher at IIS La Fe. The aim of this project is to support the Paediatric Oncology Clinical Trials Management Unit.

Grupo VAPF has collaborated once again this year with the NGO SOS Children's Villages, whose principal Mission principal is to care for children and young people who are in vulnerable situations, promoting their development and autonomy, by means of fostering in protective family environments and strengthening their family, social and community networks.

 © ACNUR  Iryna Tymchyshyn On 24th of February 2024, it was two years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, triggering the largest and fastest refugee crisis since World War II. Grupo VAPF, as a collaborating partner of the Spanish Committee of UNHCR, has made a financial contribution to help UNHCR provide humanitarian aid to the millions of refugees and displaced persons who have been forced to escape as a result of the war. It is estimated that with our donation we will be able to improve the daily lives of about 100 families in Ukraine.

Here at Group VAPF, after six successful projects carried out in collaboration with the Foundation Vicente Ferrer, we are proud to collaborate once again with FVF in a new project of BUILDING HOUSES FOR FAMILIES IN NEED. This new housing project, aimed at the less privileged communities, will consist of building a colony of 21 houses, of approximately 48m2 each one, in the small village of Kommemarry. They will have a basic infrastructure of hygiene conditions, including a space for personal hygiene and latrine. These properties will be registered in the woman´s name so as to empower their role in society, receive a property and an asset for the future of their children.

VAPF Group has once again collaborated with the Association of Parents with Children suffering from Cancer in the Valencian Community - ASPANION, in the financing of its 2023 Christmas Toy Campaign for Children and Adolescents with Cancer.

Grupo VAPF has renewed their economic collaboration agreement with the organization payaSOSpital, a non-profit association, which has been brightening the lives of children in hospital in the Community of Valencia since 1999 with regular performances of professional clowns, adapted to each child and coordinated with the healthcare personnel. Payasospital 2022  

The VAPF Group continues to be a "Company without Borders", which means that we continue to financially support the organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), so that they can continue offering medical-humanitarian assistance to those who need it most. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a medical-humanitarian action organization that cares for people threatened by armed conflicts, violence, epidemics or forgotten diseases, natural disasters and people excluded from medical attention.  

"A poor child is one that is unable to dream" 9-year old girl, Madrid.In Grupo VAPF we believe that all children should have the chance to receive quality education, access to proper healthcare and be protected against any form of violence. For this reason, VAPF Group continues to collaborate economically with the organization SAVE THE CHILDREN, through its "UNIDOS" program, aimed at solidarity companies, which allows us to join efforts to fight against child poverty in Spain. Fotografía: Anne Sofie Helms - Save the Children  

In the current situation of vulnerability, that many families around us find themselves in, Grupo VAPF has once again collaborated with the Red Cross, on this occasion, with their project of Emergency Care for those most in Need.

Grupo VAPF has once again made a financial donation to the Association of Neuromuscular Illnesses of the Valencian Community (ASEM CV), for its programme Promotion of personal autonomy. The aim of this programme is to encourage the affected person to be as independent and to have as much personal autonomy as possible, on a physical level as well as mental and psychosocial.

VAPF Group has once again collaborated with the Association of Parents with Children suffering from Cancer in the Valencian Community - ASPANION, in the financing of its 2022 Christmas Toy Campaign for Children and Adolescents with Cancer.

On the morning of Monday 6th of February, a devastating earthquake shook the south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria. From VAPF Group we have made a donation to the Spanish UNICEF Emergency Fund to help children and families affected by the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. Many homes have been destroyed, as well as schools, hospitals and other medical and educational facilities that have also been affected and they are the fundamental pillars of life and education of nearly 4 million children, including more than 350.000 refugees and migrants.

It has been several weeks since two devastating 7.7 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, killing thousands of people and causing untold destruction of homes and infrastructure across the region. Grupo VAPF, as a collaborating partner of the Spanish UNHCR Committee, in response to the devastating earthquakes registered on February 6, 2023 in the southeast of Turkey along the border with Syria, has made an extraordinary financial contribution to collaborate in this emergency. © ACNUR Siria_Hameed Maarouf

It's now 100 days since the war in Ukraine began, which has led to the displacement of 8 million people in search of safety. Over these 100 days, 255 children have been killed, while 382 have been injured. The war in Ukraine is having a devastating effect on the short and long-term well-being, development and health of boys and girls, who are exposed to these prolonged stressful situations. At VAPF Group, we wanted to collaborate economically with UNICEF so that they can continue to help millions of children in Ukraine.

Here at Group VAPF, after four successful projects carried out in collaboration with the Foundation Vicente Ferrer, we are proud to collaborate once again with FVF in a new project of BUILDING HOUSES FOR FAMILIES IN NEED. This new housing project, aimed at the less privileged communities, will consist of building a colony of 25 houses, of approximately 48m2 each one, in the small village of Sathanuru. They will have a basic infrastructure of hygiene conditions, including a space for personal hygiene and latrine. These properties will be registered in the woman´s name so as to empower their role in society, receive a property and an asset for the future of their children.

Here at Group VAPF, after two successful projects in 2018 and 2019 carried out in collaboration with the Foundation Vicente Ferrer, we are proud to collaborate once again with FVF in a new project of BUILDING HOUSES FOR FAMILIES IN NEED. This new housing project, aimed at the less privileged communities, will consist of building a colony of 36 houses, of approximately 45m2 each one, in the small village of Mahanandi. They will have a basic infrastructure of hygiene conditions, including a space for personal hygiene and latrine. These properties will be registered in the woman´s name so as to empower their role in society, receive a property and an asset for the future of their children.

We must achieve a world where all children are vaccinated against preventable diseases and can grow up strong and healthy. For yet another year, VAPF Group has collaborated economically with UNICEF Spain, in its "Small Solutions" vaccination campaign focused on getting vaccines to all children, even those in the most difficult places and circumstances, prioritising the poorest and most disadvantaged communities.

Grupo VAPF, reacting towards the crisis of refugees that exists worldwide, is collaborating once again with the Spanish Commitee of UNHCR, the Agency UNO for refugees, in their programme "Together for the refugees". The programme “Together for the Refugees” is an initiative that rely on supporting and caring companies, which would like to contribute by sending urgent help to the refugees. Help in such areas like education, emergencies or nutritional therapy.  

Once again, Grupo VAPF has collaborated with the Association of Parents with Children suffering from Cancer in the Valencian Community - ASPANION, by financing a Project for the Psychosocial Care of Children and Adolescents with Cancer.

Grupo VAPF, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, has initiated an economic collaboration with the Fundación Vicente Ferrer, by participating in their BUILDING HOMES FOR FAMILIES IN NEED  project.The housing project will build a housing complex with 37 homes in the village of Nagaruru, for people in disadvantaged communities, homes with basic hygiene and habitability standards, incorporating a space for a bathroom and toilet.These properties will be registered in the woman’s name thus empowering their role in society. https://vimeo.com/173588289  

At VAPF Group, within our Corporate Social Responsibility programme, we have provided economic collaboration to support the Rohingya people, refugees who arrive in Bangladesh, fleeing from Myanmar (previously Burma), which the UN itself has qualified as "ethnic cleansing". The season of cyclones and torrential rains is approaching and, at VAPF Group, we wanted to collaborate with UNICEF to provide the Rohingya people with refuge, food, drinking water, sanitation, vaccines and medical attention,all of which are necessary to survive, along with alternative installations and mobile schools, so that the children can keep up with their education and have the chance to play and have some fun, all of which is essential for them to overcome their traumas. https://www.youtube.com/watch1 https://www.youtube.com/watch2

VAPF Group has collaborated economically with the Red Cross so that the Teulada Red Cross can purchase a new medicalised ambulance.This ambulance is fitted for Advanced Life Support and has cost approximately 80.000 Euro, which has been covered thanks to the contributions made by private companies like VAPF Group and by associations, members and volunteers.

In the VAPF Group, after a successful first project, carried out in collaboration with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, that was finalized in September 2018, we are proud to collaborate again with the FVF in a project of CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES FOR FAMILIES IN NEED. The project of houses will proceed of  the construction of a colony of 23 homes in the village of UNDABANDA, for the people from the most disadvantaged communities, with basic hygienic habitability conditions, incorporating with a space for personal hygiene and latrine. These properties will be registered in the name of the women in order to empower their role in the society.

VAPF Group has economically collaborated with the Parents Asociation with Children with Cancer of the Valencian Community - ASPANION, by financing a Day of Coexistence aimed to children with cancer and their siblings.

It has been 8 years since the beginning of the war in Syria and 8 million Syrian children are in need of humanitarian aid. In 2018, 1.106 children were murdered within the country, 748 were injured and 806 was forcibly recruited to fight, being almost 10.000 refugee children that remain alone or separated from their families. In Grupo VAPF we wanted to collaborate financially with UNICEF so that the children in Syria can have a healthy life, a quality education and be protected from all types of abuse or violence. ©UNICEFUN0248443Watad

The Grupo VAPF, for the second consecutive year, has collaborated financially with the Cruz Roja, on this occasion, for the transformation of an "Ambulance" vehicle into a PAPS vehicle (ALERT POINT AND FIRST AID), by the Cruz Roja Assembly Teulada. The use as an ambulance of this vehicle expired in June 2018, so the transformation to PAPS, has allowed it to provide service in Emergency Situations, Preventive Coverage and Social intervention projects.

Grupo VAPF has collaborated once more with the Asociation of Parents of Children with Cancer in the Comunidad Valenciana - ASPANION, by funding a Family Fun Day full of entertainment and companionship. All this by celebrating a terrifying Halloween at the amusment park Terra Mítica.

VAPF Group has handed over two properties in Cumbre del Sol development (Benitatxell) to the Network of Refuge Towns and Cities

VAPF Group support for Spanish Red Cross by purchasing tickets for its annual draw

Grupo VAPF has made economic donations to Caritas Parroquial Benissa and Caritas Parroquial Benitatxell, undertaking to continue making these contributions annually, to contribute to improving the socio-economic situation of the communities in which it works.

VAPF Group, as a collaborating partner of ACNUR’s Spanish Committee, in response to the refugee crisis that exists on a worldwide scale, has made, for the third consecutive year,  an economic contribution to the  "Emergency Response Team: on the front line" programme run by ACNUR,  the UN’s refugee Agency.The programme "Emergency Response Team: En primera línea" is an initiative created to count on caring SMEs, offering support to the UNHCR emergency fund so that its ERT (Emergency Response Team) can carry out a emergency evacuations and attend to refugees’ basic needs, offering them accommodation, nutrition, medical attention, education and legal assistance.  

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Education is the great motor for personal development. Through education, the daughter of a peasantcan become a doctor, the son of a miner can become the mine manger, the descendant of farm labourers can become the presidentof a great nation." Nelson Mandela. In Grupo VAPF, we believe that all children must have the opportunity to receive quality education, regardless of where they are born, their sex or any other external circumstances. Therefore, Grupo VAPF, within its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, has made an economic collaboration, through the Spanish Committee for UNICEF, to the "Multiply for Childhood" project, thus becoming a collaborating partner in this programme.  

After more than 9 years of war in Siria, COVID-19 adds another problem to the already disastrous situation. Here at Grupo VAPF we have collaborated financially with UNICEF Spainwith their project of intervention in Syria, aimed at reducing the transmission and mortality of the new Coronavirus in the refugee and displacement camps, and hosting communities. © UNICEF / UNI325083 / Albam