The Comprehensive Development Accompaniment and Recovery Center (CARDI) is a project of the Augustinian Recollects in Mexico City focused on providing supportive services to patients and their families in the city's large public health centers, especially those who come from outside the Mexican capital.

CARDI thus offers its beneficiaries a solidary medical dispensary, food vouchers, rest spaces and personal and clothing hygiene, support therapies, listening, advice... It has a building in Colonia Doctores with all the necessary infrastructure to fulfill these functions.

Important to offer all these services in its facilities and even others such as visiting the sick in the same health centers, is its network of volunteers. And with the efforts to create this volunteering network, the CARDI service emerged as a center for training in values ​​and training for quality volunteer service.

The courses for 2022 begin this Monday, January 10, with the conference Depression, the disease with a thousand faces, given by Jesús Edgar Dueñas, a psychologist specializing in addictions and human development. It will deal with the origins, causes and consequences of depression, as well as the various forms of care that exist. It will last two hours (from 6 to 8 in the afternoon, Mexico City time). It will be carried out by the Google Meet platform.

On Monday, January 17, this same speaker offers the conference the importance of financial education in my emotional life at the same time. Not in vain the management of personal and family finances is one of the most common sources of tension, stress and unhappiness, depression, or lack of motivation. It will be carried out by the Google Meet platform.

On Tuesday, January 18, from 6 to 8 in the afternoon, the Psycho-oncology workshop will be held, taught by the psychologist, psychotherapist, sexologist and thanatologist Eduardo Salazar. The objective is to approach from a technical point of view the emotions that people with cancer and the people in their immediate environment experience more frequently. In this case, the workshop has five sessions and is carried out on the Zoom platform.

On Saturday, January 29, from 4 to 6 in the afternoon, the conference Greek female models, and their impact on contemporary women, given by Miguel Ángel Bahena, will take place. It aims to understand the influence of Greek mythology on the contemporary construction of femininity. It will also be based on the Zoom platform.

On January 31, a three-month course entitled Financial Education begins, whose speaker will be Jesús Edgar Dueñas. Its objective is to provide knowledge and tools to improve and optimize the resources of the family or personal economy. It will be held by Google Meet.

Christmas charity market

CARDI opened shortly before the Christmas holidays, from Monday to Saturday, a solidarity bazaar on the third floor of the building with the aim of offering products as gifts while giving buyers the opportunity to help the project.