Solidarity does go beyond borders creating a feeling of closeness, sharing and support towards people in need, no matter where.
Moved by this value, the Godolphin and Latymer School in London has recently organized and hosted a fundraising initiative promoted by its own student and aimed to raise money for Doctors with Africa CUAMM UK.
Through this inititive, the Godolphin and Latymer School has contributed to CUAMM’s mission to serve vulnerable mothers and children in sub-Saharan Africa. The funds will in fact contribute to supporting the neonatology ward at Beira Central Hospital (HCB) in Mozambique, a second-level facility that serves a total population of nearly 2 million people and where some 6,000 births are perfomed annually.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM started supporting HCB in 2002 and has been working there ever since.
On 14 March 2019 Tropical Cyclone Idai, a category 4 storm, made landfall during the night above Beira city, causing massive damage due to high winds of more than 195km/h. As a result of the devastating impact of the storm, the neonatology ward at Beira central hospital got completely destroyed. While deliverying the emergency response, CUAMM also committed to the reconstruction of the ward which was inhaugurated and handed over to the Ministry of Health on May 2021.
Today, the fully-renovated neonatology is a 600 square meters space with 17 cribs, 22 beds and a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where quality assistance is provided to newborns from 0 to 28 days.
The facility is a reference centre for Mozambican mothers as it stands out for the maternal and neonatal services provided through CUAMM’s support.
