Since arriving in Diouroup, Senegal, in December 2020, the Daughters of Charity have first taken the time to get to know and meet several groups in and around the village, in order to identify the real needs of the poorest.

"One of the villagers' major concerns was health: in this rural environment, falling ill is a ruin for the patient and his family, as treatment is very expensive. Sr Georgette

A vulnerable and isolated population

The Daughters of Charity offer consultations and care at the Saint Vincent de Paul Medical Center, and they criss-cross the villages, visiting the sick, healing wounds, listening to sufferers. They have identified a shouting emergency: hundreds of patients suffering from hypertension, diabetes, stroke, osteoarthritis or chronic infections, abandoned by the system, unable to undergo treatment for lack of means.

Some live lying on the ground, without care, without hope, cut off from the world.

The project: restoring dignity and hope to those forgotten by the healthcare system

In Diouroup and surrounding villages, the health program aims, for one year and as a continuation of the “Everything will be better now” project, to promote access to healthcare for the most vulnerable in order to improve their quality of life:

- provide basic nursing care and medication, as well as rehabilitation care at the center, through therapeutic massages and functional re-education exercises

- providing home care once a week for those unable to travel

- organize “educational talks” with women as part of a preventive health program: they are vectors of change in families to prevent diabetes, hypertension and child malnutrition.

 "Prevention is an essential aspect of our activity. Above all, by raising awareness among women, who are the ones who prepare  meals, to use less salt, processed condiments such as broths and sugar, basic gestures to effectively prevent diabetes and hypertension through diet." Sr Georgette

A concrete, human and transformative project

The beneficiaries of the health program are very low-income people from farming and shepherding families, of all ages, mainly patients with chronic illnesses.
Nearly 2,000 chronic patients will benefit from consultations, medication, massage and rehabilitation.
A further 1,000 people will receive basic care and medical follow-up.
Around 200 patients and elderly people will benefit from home care.
300 “educational talks” for women will be held during village visits.

"The beneficiaries of the project are actively involved. They even contribute a small sum of money to the payment of salaries and the purchase of medicines. In the villages, they organize the nurses' arrival on the day of the visit by preparing the venue for the educational talk and consultation." Sr Georgette"

With them, thanks to you!

If the project is financed beyond the target, the surplus of donations received will be allocated to a similar project.