Nonprofit Children’s Hospital Now Accepts Crypto Donations Via Giveth and Alibre

Summary

The Fundación Castro Limón in Tijuana, Mexico, has partnered with Giveth and Alibre.io to start accepting cryptocurrency donations for their nonprofit children's hospital, providing free cancer care to low-income families.

Abstract

The Fundación Castro Limón, a nonprofit organization operating a children's hospital in Tijuana, has made history by accepting cryptocurrency donations for the first time. Through a collaboration with Giveth and Alibre.io, the hospital can now receive donations in ETH, DAI, XDAI, and BTC. This initiative is particularly timely with MakerDAO's 'Pi Dai' campaign, encouraging crypto holders to donate on Pi Day. The hospital, which has never charged patients since its inception in 2007, offers comprehensive care including medical treatments, psychotherapy, nutritional therapy, and alternative therapies. The partnership with Alibre.io is crucial as it allows the conversion of crypto to pesos, making it feasible for the hospital to utilize the funds. This pilot project is set to expand, potentially benefiting other organizations in Mexico.

Opinions

Giveth expresses admiration for the work done by Fundación Castro Limón, highlighting their comprehensive approach to pediatric cancer care.
The Giveth team is excited about the collaboration and views Castro Limón as an ideal partner for their efforts to improve the world through donations.
The Giveth DAC emphasizes their dependency on donations from individuals who share their vision of making the world a better place and invites contributions to support their mission.
There is an appreciation for Alibre.io's 'last mile solution' that enables the seamless conversion of cryptocurrencies to fiat, which is essential for the hospital's operations.
The initiative is seen as a significant step forward, with the potential to revolutionize donations for nonprofits in Mexico by providing a new avenue for funding through the crypto community.

Nonprofit Children’s Hospital Now Accepts Crypto Donations Via Giveth and Alibre

The Fundación Castro Limón in Tijuana, Mexico is an incredible nonprofit. Founded in 2003, Castro Limón’s first major action was to orchestrate the construction of a children’s hospital, the Pediatric Oncology Center Hospital of Baja California. Since the facility’s doors opened in 2007, it’s provided free, quality care to cancer patients between the ages of 0 and 18 from low-income families.

We’re proud to announce that, through a partnership with Alibre.io, Giveth has developed a service that will allow Castro Limón to receive donations in cryptocurrency for the first time in the organization’s history!

This development also comes just in time for MakerDAO’s ‘Pi Dai’ initiative on March 14th, a.k.a. Pi Day. Crypto holders are encouraged to donate $3.14 (or $31.41, or $314.15, etc.,) worth of DAI and other ERC20 tokens to participating nonprofits. To donate to Castro Limón, Giveth, or GraceAID with Pi Dai, read more on MakerDAO’s initiative right here or just donate NOW! Donations up to $314.15 will be matched by MakerDAO!

Giveth is thrilled to be a part of this collaboration. Some of our members recently got the opportunity to sit down with Castro Limón’s executive director, and quite frankly we’re blown away by the work they do.

On top of cutting edge medical treatments, the hospital also offers supportive psychotherapy sessions as well as nutritional therapy, toy room therapy and a range of alternative therapies. Together, these offerings contribute to a more holistic healing environment.

What’s even more remarkable: in the hospital’s 12-year history, they’ve never once charged a patient. The costs of hospitalization, treatments, surgeries, lab tests, and the various therapies, not to mention the salaries of staff and specialists, are all covered by generous donations. Hopefully, by opening up to the crypto community, Castro Limón will see an increase in these donations.

Illustration made by Loie for #PiDAI 4 #PiDay

For the time being, the Fundación is not interested in holding crypto, and thanks to Alibre.io’s last mile solution, they can painlessly convert all their ETH, DAI, xDAI, and BTC to pesos. In other words, if it weren’t for Alibre.io’s valuable work on the problem of easy crypto-to-fiat conversion, Castro Limón would not be able to receive cryptocurrency donations right now.

The service that Giveth and Alibre.io have developed for Castro Limón is a pilot project, and it will eventually grow into a service that any organization in Mexico can use, be it a registered nonprofit or an informal community. For the time being, though, we’re just happy to support the important work that the folks at Castro Limón are doing; we can’t think of any organization we’d rather be involved with!

So thank you to Castro Limón, thank you to Alibre.io, and thank YOU for considering making a small donation to this wonderful nonprofit!

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To learn more about the Castro Limón Foundation, visit their site

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