Reutlingen Diabetes Project in The Gambia
The Gambia, the smallest and westernmost state on mainland Africa, ranks among the poorest countries of the world. Only one dollar per year and inhabitant is available for health care.
As in many other countries of Africa, the metabolic disease diabetes is on the advance also in The Gambia. On the occasion of her first visit to Gambia in the year 2000, the diabetologist Dr. Bettina Born of Reutlingen realized that people in Gambia are bound to die because they are lacking the life-saving insulin.
Based on this experience Dr. Born together with her colleague Dr. Alieu Gaye, chief physician at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul / Gambia,
and some campaigners of the Reutlingen Diabetes Association
embarked on a new initiative, the Reutlingen Diabetes Project in Gambia (RDPG).
The objective of this project is the much-invoked Help for Self-Help by arranging training courses for patients, physicians and attendants, and providing insulin and medical aids and appliances for people in Gambia suffering diabetes. All volunteers are working on an unsalaried basis. They all bear any expenses incurred in connection with regular travels to Gambia out of their own pockets to make sure that the donated funds are not used for covering any administrative expenses, but inure exclusively to the benefit of people in Gambia who have been affected by diabetes.
The purpose of this website is to familiarize you with the project and, above all, to show you what we have achieved so far. Maybe, the one or the other visitor to our website feels encouraged to support our project with a donation. People in Gambia will be grateful for your help.
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February 2010
Trip to The Gambia
August 2009
Diabetes Journal reporting on our project
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