Renascer

Meet Vera Cordeiro. Working in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Vera Cordeiro felt helpless and frustrated when children who were successfully treated for an infectious disease returned to the hospital and died from the same disease after becoming reinfected at home. Realizing that she needed to treat whole families, she raffled off her belongings and started Renascer Child Health Association in 1991 to work intensively with poor families. Renascer serves approximately 350 families per year, helping to lift them out of poverty. Its model has been replicated at 14 other independent centers. Plans call for helping an average of 1,000 new individuals every 18 months.

Learn about his story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Renascer
• vera
• cordiero
• skoll
• foundation
• child
• health
• brazil
• jeff
• social
• entrepreneur
• entrepreneurship