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Sierra Leone
Key Health Facts
Life expectancy: 60 years (women), 54 years (men)
Infant mortality per 1,000 births: 69
Doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 0,1
Cap Anamur was first active in Sierra Leone between 1988 and 1999. Since 2003, we have been resuming our activities in the county.
Situation in the Country
A long civil war in the 1990s destroyed vast areas of the country. Social systems like politics and economy or the health and education system collapsed. There were no future perspectives anymore, especially for the thousands of traumatised children, who were forced to participate in the war as armed soldiers. After years of development works, Ebola virus raged in Western Africa and killed nearly 4,000 persons in Sierra Leone. Again, the health system in the whole country was disabled. Countless children live on the streets in the capital Freetown. They left their families for different reasons and must provide for themselves now. The mostly minors try to earn their living with occasional jobs and are exposed defencelessly to the dangers of the city.
Our Goal
Rebuilding the medical infrastructure and supply possibilities of the country. Psychological reinforcement of the street kids and their (re-)integration into their families and school.
Our Activities
Supervision of a hospital in Freetown. Here, we organise and finance the delivery of medicine and medical devices as well as the erection and repair of buildings and infrastructure of the hospital. Moreover, we send medical staff, who work with patients, teaches local workers and optimizes administrative processes on the stations and in management.
Conducting a hygienic project in the capital’s slums. The public toilets here are cleaned several times a day and equipped with hygienic products.
Running a shelter for street kids, where the children receive psychosocial support. Apart from this aid, the children are offered school like lessons, can participate in sport and creative programmes, get regular meals and a safe sleeping place and are cared for medically if need be. The service leads eventually to the connection of the children with their families and school.
Key Health Facts
Life expectancy: 60 years (women), 54 years (men)
Infant mortality per 1,000 births: 69
Doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 0,1
Cap Anamur was first active in Sierra Leone between 1988 and 1999. Since 2003, we have been resuming our activities in the county.
Situation in the Country
A long civil war in the 1990s destroyed vast areas of the country. Social systems like politics and economy or the health and education system collapsed. There were no future perspectives anymore, especially for the thousands of traumatised children, who were forced to participate in the war as armed soldiers. After years of development works, Ebola virus raged in Western Africa and killed nearly 4,000 persons in Sierra Leone. Again, the health system in the whole country was disabled. Countless children live on the streets in the capital Freetown. They left their families for different reasons and must provide for themselves now. The mostly minors try to earn their living with occasional jobs and are exposed defencelessly to the dangers of the city.
Our Goal
Rebuilding the medical infrastructure and supply possibilities of the country. Psychological reinforcement of the street kids and their (re-)integration into their families and school.
Our Activities
Supervision of two hospitals in Freetown and Makeni. Here, we organise and finance the delivery of medicine and medical devices as well as the erection and repair of buildings and infrastructure of hospitals. Moreover, we send medical staff, who work with patients, teaches local workers and optimizes administrative processes on the stations and in management.
Conducting a hygienic project in the capital’s slums. The public toilets here are cleaned several times a day and equipped with hygienic products.
Running a shelter for street kids, where the children receive psychosocial support. Apart from this aid, the children are offered school like lessons, can participate in sport and creative programmes, get regular meals and a safe sleeping place and are cared for medically if need be. The service leads eventually to the connection of the children with their families and school.
Project Reports:
Emergency aid for Sierra Leone: Fire in the slum of Freetown
The day before yesterday there was another devastating fire in the slum of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. In a very short time, thousands […] Read more
Hygiene in times of Corona – a reality in Sierra Leone due to our work.
Since 2014, Cap Anamur maintains a total of nine toilet and shower cabins in the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leones’ capital city. Especially in the […] Read more
Street children shelter in Sierra Leone gets a new home
Cap Anamur / Deutsche Not-Ärzte e.V. founded the street children shelter Pikin Paddy in 2012 in the heart of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. […] Read more
Giving the oppressed country a future
A children hospital in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone is a small country in the West of Africa. With its long coastline, its white beaches and […] Read more
Christmas at the shelter for street children
Christmas time is a special time – also in Freetown, the capital of the West African country Sierra Leone. Normally about one million people live […] Read more
Stories from Pikin Paddy
Being a social worker in Pikin Paddy, our shelter for street children in Freetown, requires strong nerves and patience. It also requires a huge amount […] Read more
The Slightly Different Cleanup
Cry for help from the slums About two weeks ago, the chief of a community in Freetown’s largest slum turned to our employees for help: […] Read more
Doctors’ strike brings health system to its knees
Exceptional circumstances in Sierra Leone The health system in Sierra Leone has been brought to its knees again. This seems to be a never ending […] Read more
Back from the streets
According to UN estimations, more than 2.000 kids do currently live on the streets of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. In order to survive, […] Read more