Our Approach

Where should we start? As a result of previous experience and socio-political and cultural considerations, it immediately seemed that Ghana was the country most likely to be receptive to an innovative health-care project. 

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Ghana

With whom? Everywhere non-profit organization immediately decided that the local doctors were the most professionally and ethically suitable interlocutors. This choice, which proved to be successful, was reinforced by the parallel projects, ‘Alliance for Africa’ and Milan Loves Africa’, launched by the Region of Lombardy and Municipality of Milan.

Where in Ghana? In the agricultural areas of the interior and the savannah.

In order to dispel the doubts raised by some NGOs with regard to the usefulness of mobile clinics and the state of the roads in the rainy season, reconnaissance of the roads and tracks in the interior is being carried out with four-wheel drive vehicles and has given positive results. The proposal for collaboration submitted to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) was followed by the first draft agreement/memorandum that set up a direct relationship with the medical staff of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), located in the north of the country and associated with Tamale University for Development Studies (TUDS); this was followed by the auspicious recognition of the project by John A. Kufuor — the then president of Ghana and chairperson of the African Union — who, in a meeting at his official residence, Osu Castle, encouraged and praised the project.