Malteser International Annual Report 2007 - Ordine di Malta

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With the people,
for the people
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The year 2007 represented a milestone for Malteser International
in Africa: the goal was to organise the transition from the “strategy
for Africa 2002 until 2007” to a new strategy cycle until 2012. Over
the past five years Malteser International has been able to expand
its work especially within the medical sector. According to the
strategic goal 2012, the challenge now is to build up on what has
been achieved, even if the conditions are more difficult and to closely
follow every aspect of the strategic goal 2012: with the people, for
the people.
Africa DATA
International staff:
34
National staff:
482
Aid for more than
5 million people
countries
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Angola
DR Congo
Ethiopia
Kenya
Sudan
Uganda
Angola
International staff: 5
National staff: 20
Aid for 350,000 people
Malteser International has been
working in Angola since 2002.
Funding: EuropeAid, HAMSET,
UNHCR, own resources / private
donations
Partners: Health delegation of the
province of Kuando Kubango, local
partner organisations
Since the end of the 27-year civil war
in 2002, Malteser International has been
working in the remote province of Kuando
Kubango near the border of Namibia, one
of the most neglected and poorest areas
of the country. Until the middle of 2007,
Malteser International implemented
a primary healthcare programme in
Kuando Kubango: Staff members dis-
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Angola: Ante-natal care also includes the regular
control of the babies’ heart sounds.
tributed medicine, treated patients and
carried out trainings for medical staff
on the rational use of medical drugs.
Furthermore, the organisation worked on
the reconstruction and supervision of eight
health centres. Trainings and workshops
for midwives were another integral part
of the programme in order to improve
the mother-child health situation in the
region.
In May 2007, Malteser International,
in cooperation with community-based
organisations, started a comprehensive
prevention and control programme for
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
The goal is to help reduce the number of
cases of illness as well as the number
of deaths resulting from these diseases.
Malteser International supplies eight
health centres with medicine, trains the
staff and offers supervision. Furthermore,
the organisation implements educational
workshops in the communities, distributes
educational material and mosquito nets.
Africa
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