What we do in Africa In Africa, LTM coordinates several international development cooperation projects focused on the following subjects:
Water, Rural Development, Education, Food Security, Vocational Training, Microcredit, Nutrition and Health. Water: "Water means life" .
This statement it may seem quite obvious ... but nowadays over one billion people are forced to use contaminated water. Every year, diseases linked to the use of polluted water killed 1.6 million children, most of them under 5 years. Every day millions of women travel on foot for several kilometres for water supplying. Because of this, many children, especially girls, are prevented from going to school in order to help their parents in this daily activity. Rural development: Furthermore, the construction and mobilization of farmers' organizations in West Africa are forcing all players to finally take into account the views and proposals raised by the majority of people living in rural parts of Africa. In this context, there is a need for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to realize a strategy for the African agricultural and rural development in order to provide guidelines for the implementation of programs of the Italian Cooperation at European and International level.
Eventually the last strategy, aimed at agriculture and rural development in Africa, needs to be devoted to the improvement of the populations living conditions.
Education:
Education is crucial for the political, economic and social development, because it promotes changes by offering multiple opportunities to develop the potential of every human being.
In the African continent, education can be considered as the most appropriate tool to eradicate poverty and promote economic growth.
Food Security: Food security is the capability to ensure consistently the widespread of water and food to meet the energy needs of every human being to survive. The global attention on the issue of food safety has been obtained from the World Summit on Food Security. During the summit it came out a dramatic result: the number of people suffering from hunger is increasing rather than decreasing. Training:
Vocational training is becoming of strategic importance in world production. It meets, on the one hand the training needs expressed by companies, on the other hand the needs from young workers to acquire skills and stay abreast of the ever-changing market. The projects we have supported in Africa has been devised to provide local population of the training facilities and the proper capabilities to undertake agricultural activities, handicraft and entrepreneurship. That is necessary to limit the economic and social exclusion of beneficiaries. Microcredit:
Microcredit is an instrument that allows access to economic and financial subjects not traditionally bankable. Our mission is to allow the territory to take up and develop economic activities going to empower the position of indigenous peoples, as well as the role of women, which is fundamental for economy of the " Black Continent. "
Nutrition:
"Food is the best cure for all of us" ... ... The old and dear Hippocrates is more timely than ever! Indeed, this is almost a paradox, but in an era of welfare as is the current one, there are still many people which are malnourished. The main causes of nutritional diseases are three: 1. overeating or overnutrition, leading to obesity; 2. the poor quality of food, dietary deficiency or qualitative; 3. insufficient food or inadequate dietary quantitative which implies a state of malnutrition or undernutrition. Malnutrition is a pathological condition that develops when the body does not get the right amount of all the necessary nutrients to maintain healthy tissues and organic function. So, our work intends primarily to provide livelihood to the communities and then all the means of production in order to make the communities autonomous and independent.
Health: Health has been for years one of the great victims of structural adjustment in Africa. The decay of the states and the lack of means have destroyed an area that has to face everyday diseases such as malaria and AIDS. By being demoralized and impoverished, doctors are not always able to cope with the demands of patients. However, Africans do not reject modern medicine, but expect to have more benefits and human warmth.
Epidemiological data on the African continent show mortality rates significantly higher than the rest of the world. This does not refer only to specific diseases such as AIDS or malaria (usually very popular trough the media) but more generally to the overall health situation which still remains catastrophic, although in recent decades there has been some progresses. Measles and childbirth, for example, every year kill hundreds of thousands of children and mothers. They would have survived without problems in Northern countries. All this situation is made worse by degraded and devalued health public services. Under this circumstance, the almost total absence of an accessible and quality medicine is one of the biggest scandals of our time, and a crucial challenge that needs to be collected immediately. |
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