Annual Report 2010 German / Annual Report 2010 French
On Sunday 23rd of January 2011, as part of the programme "Mitenand", Swiss TV channel SF1 aired a report about FAIRMED's health project in the Bainganwadi slum in Mumbai, India.
The pictures shot in Cameroon by the bernese photographer Michael von Graffenried for our 50-years-anniversary, are for sale as large format copies. The receipts from the sale of the portfolios and the single pictures of the series «eye on africa» are for the benefit of the buruli ulcer project of FAIRMED in Cameroon.
The «eye on africa» series in German or French
After celebrating its 50th anniversary in Switzerland last year and two months ago in India, now it is the turn of FAIRMED’s local office in Yaoundé, Cameroon: 50 years ago FAIRMED – then under the name of Leprosy Relief Emmaus-Switzerland – started its first activities in Cameroon. On 15th October our local office celebrated 50 years of services in the fight against leprosy and the extension of FAIRMED’s activities in order to help people affected by poverty-related diseases.
We thank our local collaborators for all the years of intensive work in order to provide health to the poorest.
On 24 septembre the UN Human Rights Council adopted a set of principles and guidelines for the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.
The resolution in english
The guidelines in english
At the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals on 20– 22 September world leaders discuss whether all the ambitious goals can be achieved. While some of them are on track improvements in maternal health are behind schedule. Every minute somewhere in the world a woman dies during pregnancy or birth. In this very moment somewhere the rights of a woman to health, life and equality get hurt.
More Information about maternal health
Commitment of FAIRMED against maternal death in Cameroon
Improvement of health in the Centralafrican Republic, Tsunami projects in Sri Lanka and FAIRMED-sponsorship programmes
– these are the main topics in the current issue of the FAIRMED periodical.
Read on in
German or French
By buying a key protection from keymail you can donate at the same time CHF 14 to FAIRMED and you receive back your lost keys. Order here in German or French.
A medical team helps FAIRMED in its fight against Buruli Ulcer in Cameroon. Read more in the article in Le Temps of 23rd January (French) or in the article in NZZ am Sonntag of 13th July (German).
Tara can go to school. Not at all obvious for a girl living in the slums of Mumbai. But with the help of FAIRMED's local partner organisation she will be first person in the family to be able to read and write.
To the tv programme in German or French
We ensure that poor people have the opportunity to enjoy good health.
We concentrate our commitment on people who are too poor to exercise their right to good health themselves.
In our projects poor and sick people are treated, rehabilitated and re-integrated into society.
We support poor and sick people through targeted measures such as micro-loans, occupational training or educational courses, so that they can live an economically independent life.
We make it possible for children affected by poverty related diseases to have access to schooling, thus breaking the vicious circle of poverty and illness.
We provide poor people with access to health care, by supporting health services with medicines, building up infrastructure and further training of health staff.
We combat the stigma which is attached to leprosy and other diseases of poverty.
We work for equal rights, by supporting patients’ organisations and self-help groups.
By training and explanation we promote health awareness among the populations affected.
By means of basic and further training we develop expert knowledge in the project countries. In this work we deliberately use and encourage local experts and partners.
We support research which directly benefits those affected.
We also create a voice in Switzerland for poor and sick people from countries in the South.
Read the entire Vision Statement in pdf format (104KB)
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