Senegal
Many families in Senegal have no access to healthcare. However, a big step has been made with the inauguration of the first centre dedicated to paediatric cardiac surgery in 2017 so that children with heart diseases can be cared for in situ. Terre des hommes aims at two main goals: to facilitate the access to specialised care in the country and to ensure transfers to Europe for the more complex cases of children with heart disease.
Our projects in Senegal
Medical transfers
Surgical missions
Training for medical staff
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
Read more...Terre des hommes in Senegal
Beneficiairies in 2019
724 people
Expatriate Staff / National Staff
2 / 5
Budget 2020
CHF 141'000
Where we work
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Financial partners
ASF is a non-profit organization whose primary objective is to employ its resources, its professionalism and the aeronautical skills of its members for humanitarian causes. It is thanks to this partnership that Terre des homes is able to transfer 200 critically ill children who cannot be cured in their country to Switzerland each year.
> www.asf-fr.org
Financial partners
Financial partners
ASF is a non-profit organization whose primary objective is to employ its resources, its professionalism and the aeronautical skills of its members for humanitarian causes. It is thanks to this partnership that Terre des homes is able to transfer 200 critically ill children who cannot be cured in their country to Switzerland each year.
> www.asf-fr.org