The project started in 2020: every week Dr Athanase Sarr, a doctor selected by Comme Nous and supported by the Carlo Urbani Prize grant (AICU), visits, without any charge, patients at the Malicounda health post, located near Mbour. The health post is managed by a nurse who collaborates with a midwife and a pharmacist. The presence of Dr Sarr, a competent and dedicated young doctor, has improved healthcare and the management of the dispensary. With Dr Sarr’s contribution, some needs were also identified for the renovation and purchase of healthcare materials and equipment, which were supplied in 2020. In May …
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SENEGAL Educational vegetable garden, chicken breeding and the music project at the Ngaparou High School
The help to the Ngaparou High School, where Come Noi has built the library – now a multimedia room, goes on not only with the medical examinations, but also with the educational vegetable garden, the chicken-breeding and the music project. The success of the projects is ensured by the initiative and commitment of the excellent rector Madame Awa Thiam. The educational vegetable garden, started in 2019 using the water from the well co-financed by Come Noi, in February 2020 was already producing peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, sald, cucumbers… In the area have been also planted 50 mango trees, each of them …
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Agricultural projects
Since 2018 we are supporting the agricultural projects started by a great woman, Aimée Ngoma, for the organization named “Femme Lève Toi” that she founded in 2009. The aim is to help a group of women leaving in an agricultural are in the Maluku municipality, about 1000 Km North-East of Kinshasa. The women cultivate the soil of the association and using the products or selling them mantain their families and can send their children to school. Until last year Aimée, Congolese, leaving and working in Italy since many years, has spent her summer vacations in Congo, working with the women …
RWANDA building tanks to store rainwater in Muyanza
The project deals with the acquisition, putting in place in three communities of the Muyanza Parish, and activating four tanks, of 5000 liter each, for storing rainwater.The water will be made drinkable by chlorination and made available to the community. The project, with a relatively low cost ( 3.600 €), helps people (women, mainly) to access safe, drinkable water, reducing the fatigue of brinking the water upstream. In December 2020 the installatin of the tanks is almost finished, as shown in the following pictures.
A mill in Foumban
During July 2020, through father Giovanni Gonco, who spent 22 years as a missionary in Cameroun, we received a pressing request by father Eric for buying a mill and a building where to place it safely. And this with the aim of giving some hope to a group of English-speaking Cameroun people who had to leave their land, their houses and everything, several years ago to escape persecution as an ethnic minority. The group includes about 50 families, with some invalids, for a total of about 150 people, including many kids, without a school where to go, in a Country …
RWANDA Construction of a disabled center in Muyanza
In 2018 Come Noi decided to finance the construction of a disabled center in Muyanza.The works began in January 2018 (the old building was demolished, the walls of the new structure were erected and the roof was laid) and ended in February 2019 and in the same month the center was inaugurated.After the inauguration, the center began its activities with a training action for the families of handicapped children as well as pupils and teachers of elementary and middle school for an education to welcome and help children handicap.A Center Management Committee has been appointed headed by the head of …
TOGO High school construction in Afagnan Gbleta
After the rapid realization and activation of the two Afagna Gbleta and Sandale Kope wells by the members of APMED, the Togolese organization that we decided to finance, we were offered a project of a very different size and cost. It was about creating a high school for 150 students in the Afagnan Gbleta area. About 300 students, male and female, attended the high school in this area but it was a shack, among other things without a toilet, where we could only store agricultural tools. It makes sense to have this kind of school in Togo, because it is …
SENEGAL Vaccination project
The project includes a vaccination campaign in agreement with the local health district and the Ministry of Health. These are vaccinations against typhoid, hepatitis B, meningitis which are currently not funded by the government. The program aims to reach people in particularly poor locations and in 2019 takes place in the Fatik region. To find out about all our active projects in Senegal click here
TOGO Escavation of water wells
From 2018 the escavation of wells has started in a -for us- new African country: TOGO. Thanks to the suggestion of one of our members Paolo Pianezza, we have got in touch with Christian Katou, and with the APMED association. Christian asked us to partially finance the escavation of a well in the village of Afagna Gbleta. As we are trying to extend our activities in new countries, we have no plans in Togo and the political situation there, is not as problematic as in most African states, we have decided to approve the project and to finance it. The …
The urbanization project of the favela Vila Canoas
In the 90s, Giuliana and Franco Urani involved us in a great urbanization project born from their proximity to the ‘favelados’- inhabitants of the’ favela’- of Vila Canoas in Rio de Janeiro , the slum grown around their house. The ambitious objective was to provide not only the essential services for an acceptable life, but also to give full citizenship to the ‘favelados’, ignored by the authorities of the city and of the state, mostly unknown even in the registry office. The project was complex and the most challenging, even in financial terms, ever faced by Come Noi. But the …
