Fundación Castro-Limón

Fundación Castro-Limón is a non-profit association based in Tijuana, Mexico working on health, children & youth.

Fundación Castro-Limón A.C. provides free comprehensive care to children, adolescents and young people with cancer in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It runs the Centro Oncológico Pediátrico de Baja California, described as the first hospital in Mexico specialised in childhood cancer, which is supported and managed by the association. The foundation also runs a sponsorship programme that links donors with individual patients, supports families during treatment, has declared over one hundred patients cancer-free, and organises fundraising events such as Corre con Color. Since 2017 the hospital reports providing more than 300,000 free services and multidisciplinary care to over 319 patients, many travelling from across Mexico and abroad. Recent initiatives include a new blood bank and a flow cytometer for detecting leukaemia cells.