The expo will be in charge of Dr. Ángel Olmo, doctor of the ENT Unit of the Health Corporation in the Maresme and la Selva.

The event will be introduced by Dr. Núria Constans, manager director of the CSMS and Silvia Palomar, DUI of the CSMS, that took part in the cooperation team of “Easter 2011″, and Xavier Blasco, boss of the ENT unit of the CSMS and an emsimision partner for 7 years, will participate with their testimony. Later, there will be a time for questions and colloquium between the attendees.

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In their visit to this country, they had the opportunity to share our projects and programs with medical professionals and also with university students. The finnish press was also interested in this visit, and they did several interviews on the radio and TV.

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The institutions involved are: VL Group Health Transport as donor of the vehicle, La Medusa as organizer of the project, emsimision as the NGO receiving the vehicle for Burkina and the Llavaneres town hall as a collaborator.

At the ceremony the sending details of the vehicle will be announced, as well as the function and use that the ambulance will have in Burkina Faso. Later an official picture will be taken, with the institution’s representatives and with the town’s mayor.

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The project, that wants to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the area 17 (Boumiougou) in Burkina Faso, and that wants to make easier the access to a good health care, comes from the need to ensure the health rights of these people, socially excluded and vulnerable due to poverty.

The 457.798 inhabitants of this Boumiougou area, suffer high rates of morbidity and mortality as malnutrition, malaria, HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and meningitis, that particularly attack children under 5 years, pregnant women and disabled people.

Building a health center, the “Medical Training Center” and the necessary infrastructure and facilities with the collaboration of FLS, will allow Emsimision to have the physical space needed to meet not only the sick but to train medical and nursing professionals of Burkina and develop, at a time, socio-educational programs for public health and hygiene.

The conference organizers have arranged a stands area, where different entities and organisations  of Catalonia will be able to show their work and their projects.

Mcmission will be at the event with a stand to publicize its various programs and projects.

These meetings are only for collegiate people interested in the international cooperation, in order to inform them of the activities that the different organisations are doing in various countries.

The session, that will take place at 18 hours at the headquarters of the College (Pujades Street, 350 Third Floor, Barcelona), will have the participation of the representatives of the Iván Mañero Foundation, Mcmission and the promoters of the project “90 million in 90 minutes”.

• Presentation of the the shipment of medical and health volunteers to the medical center Emmanuel Ivan Manero Foundation, runned by the director of the Foundation, Ruth Manero and the nurse Laura Rivero.

• Presentation of the MCmission’s programs and projects, that focuses its work in Burkina Faso, by the entity’s executive secretary, David Armadà and the nurse Damaris Vidal.

• Presentation of the Project “90 millions in 90 minutes”, thats wants to raise funds to fight against the hunger in Africa through social networks, by the nurses Nuria Bou and Evaristo Pérez.

Click here to register for the event or call the college toll-free care, the 900705705.

Today, millions of children are victims of marginalization by neglected diseases.
Access to education is very difficult for Sub-Saharan African children, and practically impossible for the most marginalized of the poor.

Victims of marginalization … of neglect, of oblivion … ..
VICTIMS OF SILENCE.

 Oumarou is the emsimision’s programme that wants to change this situation. Sponsoring one of these children, we can give them an education in the school for deaf CEFISE, where they will learn the sign language and a profession for their future, we can give them a future and we can break their silence.

These children are deaf, but if you speak from your heart
they can hear you.

If you want more information about this programme or you are interested in sponsoring a child, send an e-mail to: info@emsimision.org

After 5 years working in Burkina Faso, in short-term health projects, and to ensure the sostenibility of the health projects, we see the need of having our own health and logistics center.

We analized and considered different locations to build the center, and finally we concluded that the best place was Boulmiougou, one of the poorest districts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The district population is about 457,798 Boulmiogou inhabitants. In this place the rates of morbidity and mortality are very high. The main causes of mortality are: malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, respiratory diseases, pathology of the skin (leprosy), ENT diseases, ophthalmology, oral and genital and urinary tracts. Children under 5 years are the most affected group by these diseases.

Is noteworthy that Meningitis, for example, in 2007 recorded 2.851 cases with 128 deaths and also a high deafness percentage (DS source / Boulmiogou, the statistics office).

The medical logistic needs of this district are enormous. It has only three little medical centers, just potential for minor surgery. Of these three, only one of them works. Most people have no access to health care.

emsimision has purchased a land of 8.632 m2 to build the Training Medical Center (TMC). This place is strategically well located at 200 metres of a paved road, with good communication possibilities and basic resources (internet, water, electricity) plus the cultural variety around. The execution of this project will be carried out jointly with the Foundation for Development Lleida (FLS). Its president Ramiro Muñoz i Alamàn, and the architect Eugènia Rodríguez Segarra, traveled together to Burkina last April to start working in the design of the Multifunctional Center.

The purposes of the Mcmission’s TMC will be:

1. Being a Medical Center dedicated to take care of the medical-surgical diseases of great need in Boulmiogou.
2. Invest in technology and professional human capacity in order to provide the highest quality in every one of the medical or surgical treatment to be carried out.
3. Being a Medical Center that capacitates and gives specialized training  for advanced students in their final years of Medical Schools in Burkina Faso.
4. Being a Medical Center with a high commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, which is implemented through social projects aimed at providing health care to people from Burkina, who are suffering extreme poverty or clear situations of great need.
5. The location of the Mcmission offices in Burkina.
6. The Reception of the International Cooperation Teams that will be serving in Boulmiougou, in short or long term, in each of the health social projects developed in the framework of international conventions and protocols and inter-sectoral collaboration.
7. Being the Logistics Center for the Mobile Health Units (UMSI)
8. Being a Warehouse for the management of container shipment of the humanitarian supplies

Be Part of the Mission by living the mission!

Once a year, a team between 30-40 people travels to Ouagadogou, Burkina Faso, to bring health and hope to the people living in extreme poverty. The Medical and Humanitarian Trips are always full of hard work but unforgettable moments and experiences. Volunteers go back to their homes with their hearts really touched… and some of them become child sponsors, or already start planning their return to the land of the red sand and baobabs!

Be part of the Mission by helping a future missioner! emsimision wants to capacitate students from Burkina, helping and training them, so we are designing the Lister project, a “student sponsorship programme”. More information coming soon!