Africa Health Insurance Card
On the occasion of my six-week mission at the Mahango Orphan Center, for which I am leaving as a volunteer in January 2023, I decided I do not want to come with empty hands. I would like to bring the children a meaningful gift, but my own financial resources are not enough. Will you help me? :)
When a child is sick, one goes to the doctor. This is true here in the Czech Republic, but not in Mahango in Tanzania. You have to pay for every treatment, unless you have that "magic" health insurance card. People then delay going to the doctor because they don't want to spend their hard-earned money. Treatment is postponed, and this has serious consequences: unnecessary missed school, over-treated inflammation, poor quality sleep and fatigue. Poorly chosen po-faced home treatment also takes its toll. We want to put an end to this and buy annual health insurance for all the children at the Mahango Orphan Centre. 25 EUR per person per year can do wonders here.
When a child is sick, one goes to the doctor. This is true here in the Czech Republic, but not in Mahango in Tanzania. You have to pay for every treatment, unless you have that "magic" health insurance card. People then delay going to the doctor because they don't want to spend their hard-earned money. Treatment is postponed, and this has serious consequences: unnecessary missed school, over-treated inflammation, poor quality sleep and fatigue. Poorly chosen po-faced home treatment also takes its toll. We want to put an end to this and buy annual health insurance for all the children at the Mahango Orphan Centre. 25 EUR per person per year can do wonders here.
Healthcare in Africa works, but no one has insurance automatically and paid for by the state. People are left to fend for themselves, and so often delay medical treatment. Worst of all, quality health care is denied to children.
Yet all it takes is 25 EUR (CZK 600) a year for a child to be sure that he or she will not be sick without help. A cough syrup for a cough, a pain pill for a pain. In Mahanga area, malaria is sometimes a problem and should not be underestimated.
Yet all it takes is 25 EUR (CZK 600) a year for a child to be sure that he or she will not be sick without help. A cough syrup for a cough, a pain pill for a pain. In Mahanga area, malaria is sometimes a problem and should not be underestimated.
Children who have lost their parents, in most cases due to AIDS or malaria, are at home in the orphan care centre. In the poor areas it also sometimes happens that a parent abandons his/her child born into the first relationship in order to start a new relationship somewhere else. Such a child then survives with help of his/her old grandparents or very distant relatives who are not able to take adequate care of him/her.
So, the Mahango centre then becomes a real home with family feeling for these children. They are taken care of by nuns, male and female civilian caregivers, and a cook. Other orphans with whom they share the connection due to similar life experience and newly found friendships become their brothers and sisters.
The orphan care centre covers the children’s most basic needs
1. home with a family feeling
2. enough food
3. clothing, hygiene, and medical treatment, if needed
4. education
2. enough food
3. clothing, hygiene, and medical treatment, if needed
4. education
We help them to get on their own feet, so they can become positive change for Africa. We teach them to be self-reliant and partially self-sufficient, to cooperate and to be responsible.
Everybody has an irreplaceable role within the community in the centre, and the rest of the community relies on them. Everyone can contribute by applying their talents, skills, or accomplishments. While one group of children is cleaning the dining room, the second one is helping with cooking, the third group grows fresh vegetables in the garden, and the fourth is taking care of the livestock. The groups take turns after some time, which gives them ideas and experience which they will benefit from after returning to the "outside world".
However, children cannot take care of everything by themselves, they have to go to school and they should also play. Thanks to remote parents, the organisation Without Mummy ensures that children have regular and good quality food, everything related to hygiene and health, and everything they need for their studies (not only in primary school, but also in secondary school and beyond).
For a home to become a real home, it has to be cultivated and improved and the motherless children can achieve that only with your help.
For a home to become a real home, it has to be cultivated and improved and the motherless children can achieve that only with your help.
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Děkuji!!❤️🙏🏼