They lost their lives while working for their people, Abrahm and Moses. All Cuamm staff share in the grief of the families of two colleagues who worked with dedication and commitment.
Medical doctors, nurses and midwives: we always need health professionals for our projects in Africa.
Beside health professionals, for our projects in Africa we need also administrators, logisticians and community development experts.
A Rotary Club project that provided delivery room equipment to the Chiulo Hospital and training to local health workers wrapped up at the end of last month. Here’s a first-hand account by Giovanni Del Frate of his August 2016 visit to the hospital with other members of Rotary Club Udine Patriarcato.
Since 1950, more than 1,500 individuals have partnered with Doctors with Africa CUAMM on its development cooperation projects, supporting and treating local communities in Africa with the end goal of making health care accessible to all.
This decade saw the beginnings of country programs and bilateral agreements between the Italian government and countries such as Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM had grown over time. There was now a need to find ways to become self-financing, and to let more people know about the organization and its objective: making free health care available and accessible to the world’s poorest.
The 1960s was a pivotal period in twentieth-century history, one that influenced people everywhere, including CUAMM’s doctors and the way they envisioned their work.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM’s journey continues, in our quest to make free healthcare available and accessible to the communities we serve abroad.
Formerly known as the University College for Aspiring Missionary Doctors, Doctors with Africa CUAMM was founded in 1950 by Francesco Canova, previously a missionary doctor in Jordan. Monsignor Girolamo Bortignon, the Bishop of Padua, immediately lent his support to Canova and the project.