Central Africa Republic – Help for “DA TI NDOYE” Medical Center
Comboni Lay Missionaries, serving on the mission in Mongoumba, are young people who want to dedicate part of their lives to work among the poorest and most abandoned of this world. However, it is not always as easy as it sounds. We create an international community here and participate in the life of the parish in collaboration with the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCJ).
Our mission in Mongoumba in the Central African Republic is situated right on the border with Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our service is primarily to integrate people living in the depths of the forest – Pygmies with the people of the village. We go to small villages situated in the forest to provide at least basic medical help to these people, together with our local health center employee, we conduct short lectures on diseases occurring here, personal hygiene, we introduce simple catecheses that can be applied to their lives, as well as we give moments of carefree childhood to the youngest through games and fun.
Pygmies are a tribe that the local people of the village consider cheap or free labor, they are pushed to the margins of society, but unfortunately that’s the reality here. Integration is the most important task for us, but it is hard to talk about integration, when it often happens that Pygmies are not willingly admitted to the hospital to dress wounds, test for malaria, or even show the slightest interest in their health. They are sent home or to our mission.
On our mission, we have a small health center that is not in the best condition and a rehabilitation center called “Da ti Ndoye”, which means “House of Love”.
The project aims to modernize this rehabilitation center that has existed since 1985. We would like to combine it with our health center to create one complex offering many possibilities. It is one of the few rehabilitation centers to which patients come from the entire area of the M`Baiki diocese. In addition to restoring the physical building, we would also like to renew our missionary animation through physical work for the benefit of the local people by giving the most precious gift – health.
Depending on the financial possibilities, we would like to:
- replace the water sewage system; clean and disinfect the water tank or replace it with a new one; clean the well; purchase a generator for pumping water, replace water supply pipes;
- install solar panels and batteries
- purchase a power generator
- renovate the kitchen (replacing worktops, installing tiles)
- renovate the toilets (cleaning the walls, installing tiles, replacing doors, purchasing equipment)
- make a ramp for wheelchairs and install railings on the porch
- replace the ceiling throughout the building, clean and renew the walls
- equip the offices with the necessary equipment
- purchase the most necessary drugs
BUDGET
Drugs and dressing materials: EUR 4,000
Equipment for physiotherapy: EUR 2,000
Construction materials: EUR 12,000
Equipment for health center: EUR 5,000
Solar panels and batteries: EUR 5,000
Water pump and generator: EUR 4,000
Employees: EUR 3,000
Transport of materials: EUR 1,000
Sewage: EUR 2,000
TOTAL 39,000 EURO
If we manage to receive an extra money, we will use it for medicines and the health care and development programs for the pygmies’ population.
Donations can be done to MCCJ account in your country with annotation: Medical Aid Center “DA TI NDOYE” in CAR. CLM Mongoumba.
CLM in Central Africa Republic
