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The Clars Foundation is a non-profit organization whose main aims are the fight against profound hearing
loss, treatment of ear pathologies, facial malformations and face and neck tumors, as well as medical support in Third World countries.
The Clars Foundation attends the needs in Emergent countries, as well as provides Scholarships to doctors with no financial resources, since 1997, and offers instructional courses in Emergent Eastern European
countries, Asia and Africa.
The Clars Foundation, for years has been conducting its mission in the fields of audiology, speech rehabilitation, otorhinolaryngology, phoniatrics, facial plastic surgery and oral surgery. These projects have been
materialized in many parts of the world, including India, Rumania, Republic of Moldavia, Ethiopia, Senegal,
Liberia, Cameroon, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, D.R. of Congo, Sudan and Cape Verde, with the donation of
medical supplies, essential life-saving medicines, and needed medical equipment which otherwise would
not be available, and providing free medical care and surgeries to people in need, as well.
Additionally, donates and adapts hearing aids and some hearing implants to patients affected with hypoacusia.
The humanitarian mission that travelled to Cape Verde was composed by 8 specialists. All of them directed
by Pedro Clars, MD PhD. These pages are a sample of the mission. The photographs were taken by each
member of the team and thereof selected and edited in this book which aims to thank all those who have
made possible this mission.
This mission and all the other activities organized by the Clars Foundation are conducted thanks to the
professional and financial support of the Board of Trustees, to whom we greatly thank for.
Board of Trustees
Honorary Chairman:
Andrs Clars Domnech, MD PhD ()
President:
Pedro Clars, MD PhD
Vice-President:
Mr. Antonio Sagnier
Patrons:
Mr. Jaime Aragall
Mr. Marcel Gorgori
Mrs. Ainhoa Arteta
Mr. Juan-Carlos Llars
Mr. Jaime Bonet
Mrs. Lucrecia Prez Lucrecia
Mr. Jos Bros
Mrs. Montse Mart Caball
Mr. Joan Matabosch
Mrs. Montserrat Caball
Mr. Carlos Chausson
Mr. Stefano Palatchi
Mr. Carlo Colombara
Mrs. Raquel Pierotti
Mr. Juan Diego Flrez
Mr. Juan Pons
Mr. Josep Maria Flotats
Mrs. Carmen Pujol
Mrs. Brbara Frittoli
Mrs. Isabel Rey
Mr. Ramn Gener
Mrs. Ana Mara Snchez
Mr. Ral Gimnez
Mr. Joan Manuel Serrat
Secretary and Legal advisor:
Mr. Fernando Foix
Vice-Secretary:
Mrs. Luisa Pujol Herrick
Treasurer:
Andrs Clars, MD
Registration No.: 1466
ID No.: G-62421482
Local team
-Her Excellency the Ambassador of Spain in Cape Verde, Mrs. Caridad Batalla.
Site:
Cape Verde, Isla de Santiago (Praia). Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto.
Clinical cases.
Dr. Chantal.
Preoperative evaluation.
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Projectile.
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Some sightseeing.
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Prision in Tarrafal.
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Dr. Pedro Clars wishes to express his gratitude to the following entities:
-All who joined him.
-The Clars Foundation Board of Trustees.
-Gaes Solidaria.
-Kern Pharma, S.L.
-Laboratorio Arag, S.A.
-Laboratorios Dr.Esteve, S.A.
-Prim S.A
-Otomedic
-Neomedic S.A.
-Tecnoquirrgica S.A.
-Medicimad
-Embassy of Spain in Cape Verde.
-Coca-Cola Cabo Verde.
-Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto de Praia.
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