HEALTH
HEALTH
Floribert kazingufu met with Harry Van der Zee in 2008 after some months of exchange of emails on the work they were both involved in. It did not take long for the two men to realise that they were sharing many things in common for the interest of people of the humanity: helping people live a better life and enjoy a good health. Harry came in Burundi and DR Congo where Floribert is coordinating churches and FOCHI humanitarian activities in November 2008. Not only he visited but also treated some patients in Burundi, in Uvira and Kiliba. Harry is a homeopath from the Nertherlands and editor of the homoeopathic links, an international journal for classical Homeoopathy, www.homeolinks.nl.
When they both realised the great need of people and their difficulties to access to good health, Flory and Harry (during his second visit in January) decided on the necessity of starting small clinics in places where they were the most needed, with the idea that those clinics could give birth to mobile clinics in the future in order to reach to more poor people in rural and remote villages in DR Congo and Great lakes region of Africa.
These clinics are combining modern medicine and Homeopathy. Homeopathy still a new concept in some African countries and is making its first steps. It is only recently that we have discovered its existence in the great lakes regions. And we have found that Homeopathy is among the best solutions that to be taken into consideration when addressing the health problems around Africa.
Clinics started
How did we start the clinics? In 2008, when I met Dr Harry Van der Zee, I came to prove that homeopathy remedies are effective and not costly. We treated more than 300 patients using PC remedies and saw tremendous results only after one week.
Hence, I decided to jump on this boat which is offering opportunity of treatment to the multiple health problems of my church members and FOCHI members in the villages of DR Congo, Burundi and Rwanda and other villages who have no access to medication.
Together with DR Harry we started looking at ways to start small clinics and mobile clinics in those villages to bring treatment where multi billion organizations and governments are also still struggling to be effective.
Qualified team in the clinics
The clinics are using modern medicine and homeopathic remedies. Professional nurses are employed who ensure that high quality of treatment is administrated to hundreds of patients who come to our clinics every month.
WHERE DO WE HAVE CLINICS
UVIRA A4A CLINIC
This heath Center started two months before the first visit of Harry in Uvira. Before the visit it was not registering much patients a day. After the first treatment using PC remedies, patients started coming in. This was testified by the responsible of that centre Miss Angele Chibalonza. Now, the Center is doing well and the nurses are using PC and modern medicines to treat patients. This method has made the center to be known in Uvira.
The finances of Uvira are not yet alright. The treatment of patients is able to pay the rent of the building, pay the nurses and other staff but it is not able to leave a certain benefit in the account of the clinic.
Bukavu Amma 4 Africa Clinic
Bukavu is a big center constituting the capital city of the South Kivu province in DR Congo. It was not possible to treat patients in Bukavu doing the first visit of Harry in bukavu in November due to insecurity caused by the so called General Nkunda rebellion. But, during the second visit Harry was able to treat some patients in the suburb of Bukavu where our denomination has a church. This town has the particularity of hosting all refugees who fled from the insecurity in East DRC since 1996. This is why we have many women victims of sexual violence, patients of HIV/AIDS, traumatised people etc… After realising the great need in Bukavu, I suggested that we open another Clinic in the City..
After, we received 1600 US dollars from Harry to help us start the Bukavu Clinic. That money helped us rent a house of 4 rooms for an amount of 90 US dollars. We had to pay in advance a rent of 7 months; we bought some medical equipment, medicines…
Thank you Harry! See www.arhf.nl
BIRTHING IN AFRICA
According to the World Health Organization: “regardless of promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, millions of mothers, newborn babies and children continue to die each year in Africa from preventable diseases.” WHO, in www.news-medical.net.
In 2006, it has been recognized that “Although Africa has 11% of the global population it has 60% of the world’s HIV/AIDS cases and 90% of world malaria cases, mainly in children under 5.” Some causes are today worsening this sad picture among which we can list poverty, HIV/AIDS, armed conflicts, lack of access to medication, fragile African health systems
Also, the specialists of African health continue to indicate that the highest death rate worldwide for babies up to a month old in Africa stands at 43 per 1,000 live births or four times the rate in Europe.” in www.news-medical.net. 
In 2008, We were privileged to receive Jennifer and Tammy from the United States of America. These wonderful women organized a Midwives training in Nyangezi where around 50 women were trained in midwifery. These clinics will also be special places where those women will put into practice what they have learned in order to ensure that they will be able to assist women in remote areas to give birth well and naturally. Our ambition is to continue to plant more clinics and mobile clinics in remote villages of DR Congo with the objectives of decreasing the death rate occurring at birth, either for the mothers or their babies. 
We would like to see more people joining the midwives movement that Jennifer and Tammy have started in East and Central Africa for the intention of saving million of life who loose their life before even they see the day. See Jennifer web at www.birthingnaturally.org
We kindly appeal to willing persons to join us in this venture to promote health in rural areas where no body wants to go to help, where before you access to health facilities you need to walk more than 50 to 100 Km. 
We need volunteers to join, we need nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other specialists in health matters to avail their services. We need medicines, remedies, health materials and equipments… Remember, whatever you consider donate will never be too much or too small to create a difference!
Thank you
Floribert Kazingufu
