More people die of starvation in Africa from coronavirus than from COVID-19
COVID-19 has yet another consequence in developing countries - a crisis in food supply and consequent hunger. Charles Ed II Aguilar - the director of our ADRA partner office in Uganda - told me in a telephone interview: „The early closure of borders and strict quarantine measures were able to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. However, the stoppage of trade has caused a catastrophic shortage of basic foodstuffs. Hunger is [...]
Rwanda - painful memories of genocide
26 years have passed since the genocide in Rwanda. The wound has healed, but the scars remain. During the preparation of ADRA Slovakia's development project in Rwanda, we had the opportunity to meet Hesron R. Byilingiro, who told us how he lost his parents, brother and 75 other close family members during the genocide. The most horrific genocide in modern history claimed more than 1,000,000 victims over the course of 100 [...]
COVID-19 - Our international volunteers
ADRA is an international organisation. The Slovak office also sends its volunteers to different countries to help those in need. The safety and health of our deployed volunteers is a priority for us, taking precedence over anything material. That is why we are monitoring the situation very closely, not only at this time of the Corona pandemic, so that we can intervene quickly if necessary and [...]
The Slovak path to food self-sufficiency in Africa
How to tackle the refugee crisis? The best way is to help people create conditions in their homeland so that they do not have to flee... This is the philosophy of ADRA Slovakia. No SCI-FI, but a real program that we are now starting in Uganda and Rwanda. Uganda is a country that has received 1 400 000 refugees on its territory (2020 statistics, third place in the world). How do they do it? For people [...]
SudHAV 3 - EU Aid volunteers
SudHAV 3 project is an EU Aid volunteers deployment project which aims at sending 42 European experts (juniors and seniors) by 3 EU organisations (MTÜ MONDO, ADICE, ADRA Sk) to 13 Non-EU partner countries in Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasia, Asia (Ukraine, Albania, Georgia, Turkey, Thaïland, India) and Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya). The main [...]
How we lit up in the African hospital ITIBO
In January 2020, we traveled to Kenya with a team of volunteer electricians to build a backup power supply for the ITIBO hospital in Kenya. The electricity grid in Africa is very unstable. There are daily power outages. For the ICU - intensive care unit and the operating theatre, even a short power outage is very dangerous. If this happens during an operation or [...]
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