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Doctors with Africa Cuamm, established in 1950, was the firstcertified NGO in the healthcare field in Italy and the largest Italian organization for the promotion and safeguard of the health of African populations.
It conducts long-term projects within a developmental framework, an approach it extends to emergency situations in order to guarantee quality services that are accessible to all. Accordingly, it is committed to training dedicated human resources in Italy and Africa, to research and scientific dissemination in the technical field of health cooperation, to advocating the fundamental human right to health for all, even among groups on the very outer fringes, to disseminating, in institutions and among public opinion, the values of solidarity and cooperation among peoples, justice and peace.


Values:

Doctors with Africa Cuamm intends to contribute, in the spirit of the Gospel and in a non-profit-making capacity by:

  • serving the process of freedom and growth of all human beings, most notably the neediest and the suffering;
  • advocating the values of the right to health, international solidarity, justice and peace.

 

Objectives:

The main aim of Doctors with Africa Cuamm is to improve health conditions among the populations of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa and do everything in their power to promote necessary changes in the behaviour of rich countries towards poor countries and the growth of a culture of solidarity, cooperation among peoples, justice and peace.

To achieve this objective, Doctors with Africa Cuamm intervenes, according to set priorities, in the following sectors:

1. designing and conducting long-term healthcare cooperation projects in a developmental framework, and adopting a similar approach to emergency management;

2. training and retraining dedicated human resources in Italy and Africa;

3. scientific studies, research and dissemination on the issue of health problems and fair global development, particularly with regard to African countries;

4. information activities, awareness building among the general public, developmental education;

5. promotion of specific information, awareness raising, advocacy schemes addressed to national and international institutions;

6. growth of the ethics of socially responsible donation and investment by private citizens and institutions.

 
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Contacts

Doctors with Africa Cuamm

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via S. Francesco 126
35121 Padova (Italy)

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0039 49 8751279
0039 49 8751649

fax 0039 49 8754738
mail3 cuamm@cuamm.org