Bucharest, 15 July 2020 – In the period July 2019 – June 2020, M.A.M.E. Association offered social and medical guidance, information and counseling adapted to the needs and situations of 328 adults suffering from severe diseases within the “SMS for Life” project. For the fifth consecutive year, the project was supported by Vodafone Romania Foundation, the funding granted for 2019/2020 edition being of 161,000 lei.
Both the patients and their families were guided in order to access psychological, social and medical services within the country and, in particular, abroad. At the same time, they benefitted from support and consultancy in the process of raising the funds necessary to pay for medical treatments and surgical interventions that they would undergo in clinics abroad, inclusively by allocation of short numbers for donations by SMS.
From the launch of the „SMS for Life” project and until present, 2,250 persons received counseling. For 62 of them, after they met the eligibility criteria, short numbers were allocated for donations by SMS of 2 Euro. The cases which were not eligible for SMS campaigns received consultancy in order to use other methods for raising the necessary funds, so that another 310 persons managed to raise the funds they needed, in full or in part. Throughout the seven years of the project, over 450,000 SMSs were sent and the amount donated to the patients suffering from severe diseases is over 1,100,000 Euro, which was used to pay for some treatments and medical investigations at clinics abroad.
Vodafone Romania Foundation is a Romanian non-governmental organization, with charitable status, distinct and independent of the company’s commercial operations, founded in 1998. Throughout its activity of more than 20 years, Vodafone Romania Foundation has funded 1,168 programs run by 765 NGOs throughout the country, in the fields of healthcare, education and social services. These projects had more than 3 million beneficiaries – children, young and elderly people, physically, socially, or economically disadvantaged people. So far, the Vodafone Romania Foundation has invested 31 million euros in projects run by non-profit partner organizations. More details about the Foundation’s programs are available at fundatia-vodafone.ro, http://jurnaldebine.fundatia-vodafone.ro/ and www.facebook.com/fundatiavodafone.
M.A.M.E. Association (Maternity, Advocacy, Medicine, Education) is a non-profit organization which supports children and young people diagnosed with cancer and other severe diseases in Romania. During its almost 12 years of activity, it offered information and guidance services, as well as psychological, social and medical support for approximately 10,000 beneficiaries. Also, it donated high-performance medical equipment annually used by over 10,000 oncological patients. It has conducted information and awareness campaigns among over 8,000 pupils regarding a healthy life style and fight against bullying. For more details on the activity conducted by the association and its results so far, please visit: www.asociatiamame.ro or www.facebook.com/AsocMAME.
