Dorothee
Germany
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“Domradio” says that the Pope will give financial support to the building of a childrens’ hospital in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.
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Re-uploads: When I went to church last Sunday, they spread some leaflets there concerning the disease Buruli ulcer and an aid-organization that helps patients: When we think of deadly diseases that threaten hundreds of people in Africa each year, most of us think of HIV, Ebola, malaria, yellow fever or leprosy. Due to the fact that so little is known about how this disease is transmitted and also due to this disease usually not killing the infected person, Buruli ulcer is ignored by most media. However our church community decided that this disease as well as the organization that helps patients should mentioned nonetheless: Buruli ulcer weakens the immune system and dissolves soft tissue to the point of the infected person either being dead – due to the immune system not being able to fend off diseases anymore – or paralysed – due to too much tissue being destroyed – or scarred. Combinations are also possible. Anyway the tricky thing is that this disease doesn’t cause any pain. Not even children find this disease in any way painful. Thus they usually don’t discover that something is wrong until it is too late. Then even if you find out that something isn’t right and you rush to the closest doctor, you have to be very lucky in a country like Central Africa – where most cases are reported – if you get to a doctor who is skilled enough to recognize this as Buruli ulcer, if the doctor wants to see you immediately and if there is a hospital nearby that has the gadgets and the skilled stuff needed to treat you. DAHW Deutsche Lepra- und Tuberkulosehilfe e.V. IBAN: DE35790500000000009696 BIC: BYLADEM1SWU Conto-nr: 9696 Bank account: 790 500 00 Sparkasse Mainfranken-Würzburg
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According to the website where I found it, this is a former street child living in the Central African Republic. Fortunately he has now a chance of education and a better life. If you want to know more about street children in this area you definetly should visit this website “http://www.merlin.org.uk/Where-we-work/Central-African-Republic.aspx”. There you even get the chance to get involved if you want to.
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You can still donate to “Doctors Without Borders”. In other countries they are called “médecins sans frontières” and “Aerzte ohne Grenzen”. If you like Germany, you can even donate to “German Doctors E.V. EKK-Bank Bank Account Number: 4 88 888 0 Bank Code: 520 604 10 For further questions please contact info@german-doctors.de They speak English!
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Re-upload 3: >You can still donate to “Doctors Without Borders”. In other countries they are called “médecins sans frontières” and “Aerzte ohne Grenzen”. If you like Germany, you can even donate to “German Doctors E.V. EKK-Bank Bank Account Number: 4 88 888 0 Bank Code: 520 604 10 For further questions please contact info@german-doctors.de They speak English! >According to the website where I found it, this is a former street child living in the Central African Republic. Fortunately he has now a chance of education and a better life. If you want to know more about street children in this area you definetly should visit this website “http://www.merlin.org.uk/Where-we-work/Central-African-Republic.aspx”. There you even get the chance to get involved if you want to.
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“Domradio” says that in the Central-African Republic around 50% of its citizens depend on aid by the state which is also bad because due to corruption and violations of human rights in the past as well as recent cases in which the Central-African government neglected some cities and preferred aiding the others many people start losing trust in this government. In a situation like this it is very worrying that ordinary citizens achieve guns they get from militant groups in Congo. Right now Central-Africa counts 500.000 refugees and 1.000 victims of riots and political fights. Even the agricultural sector – which in most LDCs is the strongest sector – isn’t doing too well. People get ousted by opposing groups and doing agricultural work has become unpopular and undesirable as people consider it as risky to live in an urban, underpopulated area with rioting and fighting militant groups straying around everywhere. Due to this difficult situation many aid-organizations are overstrained and don’t do more than emergency-aid. The only organization that does more than just that right now is the “Welthungerhilfe” – Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V. Sparkasse KölnBonn Conto: 1115 IBAN: DE15370501980000001115 BIC: COLSDE33.
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