The educational and cultural activities are carried out in courses organized at the library of Ngarapau Somone, located in a high school with more than 1000 students, which is still the operational center of our activities, under the control of the untiring and professional Ibou Diouf. The courses range from malaria prevention and personal hygiene to Islam-Christianity dialogue. Every year a program of courses is open to students and to the entire population. Since 2014, the training activity has been focused on computer courses, involving every year about 20 school teachers and 150 students, coordinated by three trainers. Come Noi …
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SENEGAL Health in the schools of Mbour Ngaparou and Somone
The school health project was born in 2017 and integrates the health culture project activated between 2007 and 2014. In Senegal some chronic diseases are present in schools: asthma, nutritional, infectious, cardiological, neurological and hematological diseases. It is difficult to have access to specialist doctors so diseases are diagnosed late and followed irregularly. This, in addition to the increase in infant mortality, creates absenteeism and poor school performance. The program planned the visit of about 1000 students from the following schools: Jamm la Paix and the high school in La Somone, the boarding school and the high school in Ngaparou. …
Dispensary of the Somone Library
The project was born from the need to provide the dispensary of the Somone library with medical technical equipment and ensure the presence of a paediatrician once a month. The dispensary serves an area with more than 10.000 inhabitants, where 35 children per month are born. Dr Niang and dr Bassene, our medical doctors on site, continue to work for free at the dispensary, continuing a collaboration born with the project and consolidated over time. With the contribution of Come Noi, the dispensary has been significantly enhanced and qualified, becoming a point of reference for an increasingly populated territory. To …
