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7. SOCIAL OUTREACH
The third stage began with the modification addition to Alzheimer's, such as Parkinson's,
of the Law on Foundations and the incentives Huntington's, etc.
for patronage in 2002, and the beginning of
the so-called Alzheimer Project that led to the In these 40 years, 153 projects have been allocated
construction of the Queen Sofia Foundation to six areas of action: social action, health, women,
Alzheimer Center, which has been in education, agriculture and the environment. The
existence for ten years. three main areas are social action with 65 projects,
The last stage of the Foundation began as a health with 44, including the construction and equip-
result of the economic crisis, focusing its ment of the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Cen-
efforts on projects primarily in Spain, ter and research projects in Alzheimer’s and other
collaborating with the food banks, Caritas, neurodegenerative diseases, and the 29 projects
Red Cross, etc. Also, in this period the devoted to education.
objective has been extended to help in the
research of all neurodegenerative diseases, in
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