HOW DOES AVEPANE WORK?

A significant part of its patrimony is constituted by the voluntary time dedicated by honorable and socially sensitive persons of our society and with the intelligent, consecutive, generous and altruistic assistance of the representatives of the media in Venezuela.

Each year, AVEPANE organizes Fund Raising Campaigns, that represent an incalculable economic contribution, without which it would be impossible for the organization to be maintained. AVEPANE is responsible for financing the expenses of the free services that are provided to a population of scarce economic means, that are covered at a high percentage with the amounts collected through these Campaigns: Governmental and Private Subsidies, Donations, Scholarships, Social and Cultural Events.

Since 1969, AVEPANE also promotes Information Campaigns led by a Scientific Committee made up by experts from various medical and social disciplines chaired by Dr. María Isabel Vegas de Sosa, having organized up to the current date up to thirty-three National and Latin American events: Congresses, Seminars, Courses, Lectures, inviting national and international experts of the highest scientific level; all the countries of America from Canada and the United States to Argentina, including the Islands of the Caribbean, countless countries of Europe, Israel and the Middle East. Venezuela has been visited by 142 experts and they have left us their knowledge, their experience and their motivation delivering conferences on Bioethics, Genetics, Diabetes, Hypothyrodism, Perinatology and the latest facts in the world on Special Education.

We are once again extending an invitation for the SECOND IBEROAMERICAN SEMINAR ON PREVENTION OF DISABILITIES to be held in Caracas from October 7 to October 11, 1996, sponsored by the Handicapped Persons Royal Board of Prevention of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Spain, chaired by Queen Sofía. The program is based in the ìfactors that interfere with the childís brain development.î Experts from Spain, Colombia and various areas of Venezuela shall participate, who in open sessions, accessible to the professional public interested in the subject, shall enable to exchange various work experiences, within the vast field of prevention of deficiencies and care of persons with special needs. This event counts with the special cooperation of the "Simón Bolívar" International Center of Scientific Cooperation (CICCSB/ UNESCO/ IDEA) and is sponsored by the Venezuelan Obstetrics and Gynecology, Child Care and Pediatrics, Child Neurology Societies.

Location: Institute of Advanced Studies (IDEA), Hoyo de la Puerta National Road, Sartenejas, Baruta.

AVEPANE sponsors the FIRST SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS of Maracay, State of Aragua, organized by the Dr. Carlos E. Burgos Civil Association, that shall be held at the Opera Theater of Maracay on October 3, 4 and 5, 1996. Program: The Development of the Brain. Challenge and Destination. Based upon the AVEPANE Congress held during 1993.