Would you like to help rural, indigenous, and marginal urban communities when they are most vulnerable? Our non-profit foundation is dedicated to disaster prevention and humanitarian aid during emergencies. We deliver help hand-to-hand, directly helping those in most need.
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To relieve human suffering by reducing the vulnerability of populations living in constant risk of disasters and crises, fostering a culture of prevention and inclusion.
To be the link for humanitarian aid between vulnerable communities and concerned citizens, thus changing the realities and generating autonomous and resilient communities.
Since 2005, we have been working as the humanitarian arm of the world's Jewish communities, and we work to inspire and empower people to be humanitarians to build a resilient, just, and equitable world for all.
CADENA dares to change realities, breaking with the status quo, believing that there is a better world and each person can build it. They only need to come face to face with that reality that makes indifference disappear.
Cadena Costa Rica not only offers humanitarian aid during emergencies such as floodings, landslides, and earthquakes, but we also have 3 permanent projects:
Like the rest of the Central American region, Costa Rica has been characterized as a migratory corridor for people who transit by land from South to North America and whose destination is the United States. The greatest difficulties faced by these migrants are physical and sexual violence, assaults, and theft of their belongings, among other abuses.
Many people also take advantage of their situation to swindle or charge them exorbitant prices for transportation, food, or lodging.
When families arrive in Costa Rica, they present fevers, diarrhea, and dehydration, most of which are linked to the lack of access to drinking water. There are also cases of malnutrition, exhaustion, wounds, injuries, and infections related to the complicated conditions of crossing the Darien region.
Cadena has kept a humanitarian station since 2022 at the border with Panamá in Paso Canoas, at this station, we offer medical attention in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, and we distribute clothes, shoes, hygiene kits, diapers, sanitary towels and portable water filters.
Towards the end of 2020, the media published an alarming problem: 350 schools don´t have potable water in the country. Most of these schools are in indigenous territory, and apart from causing illnesses due to the consumption of non-potable water, the children miss school frequently since classes get canceled often due to lack of water. This contributes to the already colossal education gap between urban and rural areas.
The Agua YA project installs rainwater collection tanks and filters that make the water drinkable. We aim to offer this emergency solution to all educational centers that need it.
In Costa Rica we have a robust centralized organization that coordinates the emergency response in the country, the CNE for its acronym in Spanish, National Emergencies Committee).
The committee works with the municipal response committees; in these committees, community members are urged to integrate to manage the risk in their neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the participation of young people is minimal. Cadena has started a program in 2023 that will prepare young people from schools in vulnerable areas to acquire the knowledge and skills to join emergency committees and thus be part of the solution in prevention and response to create more resilient communities.
