For a child growing up in poverty with spina bifida or hydrocephalus, your support makes a huge difference. Your donation means medical equipment or an operation. This significantly improves the quality of life and gives the child a future.
This is essential in the follow-up of children with spina bifida. This way, they are dry and infection-free and can have a real social life by going to school and playing with friends.
The shunt is a fairly simple implant, needed to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid into the abdominal cavity. €47 is unaffordable in countries where simple farmers often earn less than €1 a day.
The surgeon uses an endoscope to make an opening in one of the ventricles of the brain, allowing the cerebrospinal fluid to leave and enter the bloodstream.
It is practically impossible to start life for children with spina bifida or hydrocephalus living in the South.
Support them – for everyone has the right to a humane existence.
Help children to have a worthwhile life.
Today is World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus day.
Read further to see how you can participate in this special day.
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As a result of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, thousands of people were buried under the rubble, and tens of thousands were injured.
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Annual Report 2022 consists of 3 main topics: Decolonization; Interview with Dr Shabani at MOI Hospital in Dar es Salaam; and the story of Lucy, a house mother at the House of Hope in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Read moreThis podcast is in Dutch language!
Conversation between Child-Help founders and Ukrainian wound care specialist about the emergency situation in Ukraine and Child-Help’s support.
Summary is available in English here.
This podcast is in Dutch language!
Ronald Van Ham, a member of Team Scheire, tells a fascinating story of how people can use their tools to do things they could not have imagined in their wildest dreams.
This podcast is in Dutch language!
Prof. Dr. Geert Van Hove explains why family is crucial for children born with disabilities. He also talks about the research ‘Obuntu Bulamu’ that Femke Bannink conducted with Child-Help in Uganda.
