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La Caixa Renews Gavi Alliance as Spain-Backed Drive Reaches 11.7 Million Vaccinated Children

Donations from companies and citizens are quadrupled by a 1=4 matching fund with the Gates Foundation.

Overview

  • In 2025 Fundación "la Caixa" renewed its alliance with Gavi after 17 years, committing to continue doubling private donations within the 1=4 matching scheme.
  • Donations from 143 Galician companies and local citizens have enabled the immunization of 232,804 children in vulnerable African communities, mostly against pneumonia.
  • Over the past six years, alliance funds fully covered pneumonia vaccination program costs in Mozambique and financed 25% of Ethiopia’s program in 2021–2022.
  • More than 7,000 Spanish companies have participated since 2008, with CaixaBank mobilizing corporate and client contributions and leading outreach.
  • ISGlobal provides scientific guidance to the initiative, while Gavi reports 1.2 billion children vaccinated and 20.6 million deaths averted globally since 2000.