Speech therapy campaign at HEAL Africa: about fifty patients cared forFor a week, about fifty patients were received at HEAL Africa Hospital, Goma, during a speech therapy campaign that provided an assessment of children with cleft palate and their initiation to language. The campaign was motivated by the idea to enlighten patients regarding their diagnosis […]
COVID-19 put a lot of activities at HEAL Africa to a halt. Sort of. We decided to do some home improvement. Today we held an opening ceremony of the children’s space at HEAL Africa. After nearly five months without activities due to the measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, the children […]
Each Christmas season, our Spiritual Ministry department offers the opportunity for baptisms. This year, 16 people who came to Christ took the opportunity to express their faith through baptism. The event was held very early in the morning, at 6:30 am, before the beginning of Tuesday chapel. The Capoeira for Peace team performed a routine […]
Yesterday, during our regular Sunday chapel service, we said goodbye to Dr. Bill and Ann Clemmer, who will be spending their Christmas holiday with family and friends. Children from the HEAL Africa Sunday School program performed a skit about the nativity of Jesus Christ. Ann and Bill, along with their home church in the USA, […]
Each Thursday, patients from surrounding communities come to HEAL Africa because treatment and consultation for clubfoot begin at 8 am. Some arrive by motorbike, some on foot–with mothers carrying children who are unable to use their feet; some arrive with makeshift crutches; and others, who come from areas a little too far from Goma and/or […]
We are devastated to share that Moïse passed away last Thursday. We want to thank every single person who prayed, hoped, and donated to save Moïse’s life. Moïse had the ability to lift everyone around him with his humor and affection. In our last Moïse update, Moïse was able to receive chemotherapy in Nairobi because […]
After a 2-month break, schools are back in session for Congo! In the Congolese educational system, the first Monday of September marks as the beginning of the school year. Unfortunately, the Beni region of North Kivu was not able to resume due to insecurity and the last Ebola epidemic. Under the WATOTO sector, HEAL Africa supports […]
Today Princess Carolina from Monaco and President of AMADE visited HEAL Africa to launch the construction of a community health center to better serve the needs of women and children. This morning marks the beginning of construction by laying a stone the first stone. For more on the event. Prior to her visit, Dr. Neil […]
Officially, sexual violence has declined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dubbed the ‘rape capital of the world’. But frontline workers tell a different story.
Despite recent progress in reducing deaths among children under age 5 years, a significant number of infants continue to die in the first month of life, exceeding 2.8 million worldwide. The highest rates of neonatal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. And yet, while neonatal mortality data (and other newborn outcomes data) is historically […]