Solidarity is always present - By Mara

SEPTEMBER 8, WORLD DAY OF COOPERATION
THE VFF CANDIDATE FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2010

Vicente Ferrer, was considerate one of the most active people in helping, solidarity and cooperation with the disadvantage. He was born on April 9 in 1920. He was a Spanish philanthropist who developed his activity principally in Southern India. He united to POUM (Workers' Party of the Marxist Unification). He married Anne Perry, an English journalist. Together they founded the organization Rural Development Trust. Since 1996 he had had his own foundation: the Vicente Ferrer foundation. This foundation has the objective helping people overcome poverty by a sustainable development that means (for example) universal education. Through donations the foundation employs 1800 people, manages 5 hospitals, one specialized in people who suffer from AIDS and more than thousand of schools, one of them for blind children, another one for deaf, one for children with down syndrome and one for handicap children, 1696 schools, 30.000 households and 2,7 millions of trees planted. On the 20 of March in 2009 Vicente was taken to the Anantapur hospital after suffering a cerebrovascular accident. He died on the 19 of July at 89 because of respiratory complications. After Vicente Ferrer died in the month of June lots of people through social nets like Facebook began asking for the Nobel Peace Prize to recognize his work and that of his foundation. In October an external platform for NGO decided to submit a formal candidature for the Nobel Peace Prize 2010.In the Anantapur region almost 4 millon people live and 35% live in abject poverty so the 2009-2010 project of Vicente Ferrer Foundation is building 53 homes for those families that are excluded.
The Vicente Ferrer is a prize for cooperation created by the Spanish Association of International Development Cooperation (AECI) and the Ministry of Education given since the 14 of September in 2009.
These days this foundation still helps more and more people…