04 Apr 2025 Our appreciation to Mensajeros por la Paz for their support to our solidarity project in Liberia

Egoitz Zabala, head of Pastoral, Volunteering and Solidarity of Ospitalarioak Fundazioa Euskadi, visited yesterday in Madrid Father Angel, founder of Mensajeros por la Paz (Messenger for Peace), to thank him personally for the contribution of EUR 10,000 that his organization has allocated to the project of construction of a new building in the premises of Sisters Hospitallers in Monrovia, where they develop, together with Ospitalarioak Fundazioa, the We Are Like You program of care for women with mental health problems.

The project aims to improve the living conditions and specialized care of vulnerable women in an environment with scarce social and health resources.

Mensajeros por la Paz is a non-governmental organization founded in 1962 by Father Ángel García, an Asturian priest renowned for his humanitarian and social work. The organization develops programs for the elderly, children at risk, women victims of violence, homeless people and refugees, both in Spain and in more than 50 countries. Father Ángel has received multiple awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, and is one of the most representative figures of social and religious activism in the country.

During the meeting, Zabala gave Father Angel and Paula Lemos, director of Global Development, a symbolic reproduction of the old stone markers that marked the land acquired in 1898 by Father Benito Menni in Gesalibar (Arrasate-Mondragon), where the Santa Águeda Health House was founded, origin of the current hospital complex formed by Aita Menni Hospital and San Juan de Dios Hospital.

This gift represents a recognition that Ospitalarioak Fundazioa Euskadi usually gives to people or entities that stand out for their solidarity commitment with the most disadvantaged groups.In previous years have received this distinction entities and outstanding professionals in the social and health field, such as the Hospitality of Lourdes or the House of Mercy of Bilbao.

For his part, Father Ángel gave our representative a reproduction of a bench with a person lying down, with the inscription: “Only before God, a child, an elderly person and a homeless person should we kneel down”, in allusion to his well-known defense of the rights of the most vulnerable.