Senegal
In Senegal, Terre des hommes (Tdh) promotes access to tertiary care for paediatric cardiac surgery. Thanks to the opening of the Cuomo centre for paediatric cardiac surgery and hands-on training for the teams, more children can be operated on locally and increasingly complex congenital heart disease can be performed. Tdh has two main goals: to facilitate access to specialised care locally and to ensure the transfer of the most complex cases of children with heart disease to Europe.
Our projects in Senegal
Specialised care

Key project
Oumar had a number of heart problems, which made surgery in Senegal risky. Following an operation in Switzerland, he is now in excellent health.
Oumar, was born with several heart defects
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Beneficiairies in 2020
462 people
Expatriate Staff / National Staff
4 / 5
Budget 2020
CHF 277'321
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Aviation Sans Frontières is a non-profit association whose main objective is to put its resources, its professionalism and in particular the aeronautical skills of its members at the service of humanitarian causes. Thanks to this partnership, Terre des hommes transfers every year more than 200 seriously ill children who could not be treated in their country of origin to Switzerland for hospitalization
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