The Álvarez-Caldeyro Barcia Foundation operates within the Pereira Rossell Hospital and aims at improving the follow-up and care process during pregnancy and labor for low-income women. In the Pereira Rossell Hospital, 8,500 babies are born annually to women who are poor and illiterate. Twenty-seven percent of all deliveries are to teenage mothers, the highest risk age group for premature births and low birth weight. Reaching U has for a number of years supported the Milk Bank Project and the Retinopathy and Deafness Screening Project.