Healthcare
Healthcare
Access to adequate healthcare is a daunting challenge faced by many African people, as well as many people in under-served areas of the United States. The sight of a good and well-structured healthcare institution in these areas is similar to coming across an oasis in a desert, and such an institution is beyond the reach of the poor. Children and women are mostly affected by this crisis and millions die each year from preventable diseases and minor infections.more
Clean Water
Like many countries of West Africa, Togo remains unable to provide improved water access to the majority of its 2.5 million people living in rural areas. Many rural women must walk further than 15 minutes from their homes 4-6 times per day to collect drinking water from polluted surface water sources to the transport and storage, or from non-protected boreholes.more
Clinic in Togo
One of the goals of Light in the World Development Foundation is to decrease mortality rate in Togo, west Africa by building a new Prevention and Treatment Center( P.T.C).more
New Clinic - Progress Report
Work on the construction site has commenced and the drilling of a new well was successfully completed.more
Medical Mission 2018
In June and July 2018 Light in the World Development Foundation was able to organize two medical missions with experts from the USA in Togo. A surgical team was there in June and was able to provide vaccinations and perform one emergency c-section and six knee replacement surgeries. The medical team cared for people suffering from chronic pain, malaria, pyloric stenosis, wounds, and more. In total, both teams cared for 647 patients during their time in Togo.more
Ambulance car
In the year 2018 LWDF Germany could buy an used ambulance car and ship it to Togo. This car is since then based in Lomé and operating from there.more
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