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Senegal

Community ambulances provide faster access to healthcare

Active in Senegal for more than 30 years, Terre des hommes (Tdh) runs projects dealing with health, nutrition and child protection. In 2010, more than 10,500 people benefited from Tdh’s activities.

Over the course of the 30 years that Terre des hommes (Tdh) has been working in Senegal, it has built up a recognised expertise in mother and child healthcare and special care.

Mother and child healthcare and nutrition

In the Podor district, Tdh is working towards improving the health and nutrition of children under five years of age. Tdh is also promoting access to healthcare services for pregnant women and organising sessions to stress the importance of exclusively breastfeeding infants up to the age of six months.

Special medical care

Tdh is taking care of children with serious illnesses (such as heart disease) either locally or abroad. Tdh is also providing financial support to the paediatric and orthopaedic units at Thiès Hospital.

Support for children in Koranic schools

In the Guédiawaye region, Tdh is collaborating with the authorities and other local stakeholders to provide support for young boys placed in Koranic schools. Under the threat of severe punishment, they are forced to spend the whole day begging to earn money for their religious teacher. Tdh offers the children a new perspective with healthcare, psychosocial activities, an education or vocational training.

Centered at -14.452362 14.49741 6

Places of intervention : Guédiawaye , Thiès, Podor District

Projects : Special medical care, Mother and child health and nutrition, Child welfare

In joint cooperation with : Intermondes, Ministry of the Family, of Health and authorities in Podor, Dakar and Thiès Hospitals

Delegate : Frank Bossant

Expatriate staff : 1

National staff : 25

Budget : 502'490 CHF

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Side Notes

Children’s situation

The mortality rate for children under age 5 is 114‰ in Senegal
22% of children between age 5 and 14 are forced to work

Results 2010

Promotion of mother-and-child care in the health district of Podor enabled 9,143 children and their mothers to be looked after. The village meetings on health education made it possible for everyone to increase their knowledge. 223 health and community workers enjoyed training and technical support. Specialised health care was given to 126 children, 21 of them treated abroad and 19 locally. They were all helped with their socio-educational reintegration when their medical treatment was over. The project for protection helped with support for 256 youngsters who no longer went out begging. At the same time, 150 professionals on childhood were trained in the framework of a national initiative for social protection for vulnerable children.