A few years ago In a village in Mauritania a former slave community settled. They live at the edge of the village and receive drinking water from the village. Ensuring their own maintenance (at least) by the raising of sheep and a piece of agricultural land, where particularly care for. It is a strong community.
A few years ago at a visit to this village, a crying mother brought to me this child, severely malnourished, high fever. Everyone knows that images on TV. But getting this child pushed in your hands by a weeping woman in rags, grabs you. We took baby and mother to the hospital. The Doctor saw no possibility of healing, he could not invest time and money. We went to the pharmacy to buy the necessary medications and helped ourselves the child to survive the first day in the hospital. We took home the mother and child until it was strong enough to return to the family.
Now four years later this kid: healthy and bright.
Poor, but yet so rich.

This Healthcare Center has the possibility to supply day care by a physician, a midwife and an assistent in the furnished pharmacy, all in acknowledgement to the contribution by the ( outside the house, in foreign countries) employed local population.

working

In 2006 the Healthcare center was build, partially with financial support of locals who are employed in foreign countries. This center offers care for 3800 inhabitants.There is provided for a room for daycare and meals for toddlers and very young children who need extra nutrition are included. This room is also used for information about health, rearing children and hygiene, etc.

consulting-room

waitingroom for patients

sick-ward

In this centre account has been taken of a well furnished consulting room, a very well to clean waiting room for patients and a surgery. Shower and toilet have been realised outside, but easy to reach. A herbal garden has been started. F.e. patients have been registered for cataract and had surgery in a large city, but receive their follow up and checks here. Cooperation with the larger hospital is very well managed.

pharmacy

health centre

a space to remain for patient's family

In a small city of 20.000 inhabitants in the Sahara a health care centre has been build and furnished. It contains a pharmacy, sickward, and a roof in terrace where family of patients can cook their meals, stay for the night and wait.

This centre offers care for the city and for the (ex)slave villages nearby. A physician and nurse attend daily.

This Healthcare Center is situated alongside the only asphaltroad in the region. Most of it financed by locals who are employed in foreign countries. Silent Works support has been to lay a watertube network and the tiling of the complete center with assistence of our co-ordinater.

an artificial limb is a necessity

emergency aid

From the start up till now, we provide individual support for people working for Silent Work and inhabitants of villages where we start projects, untill they can be selfsupporting and finance it themselves (mostly in about 5 years).

Support includes all types of medical needs, from supplying paracetamol to recovery operations, wheelchairs or artificial limbs.

This girl has a cleft lip and mental retardation.
They lived isolated in a hut in a village in Mauritania.
The operation was not easy, partly because of her mental disability.
Yet we can call it now: a successful surgery.
She presently participates very active in the family and the environment.