The St. Camillus Mission is a Level 4 hospital located in Karungu, Kenya, with which Health and Development has been collaborating for some time. In December 2024, the hospital’s director expressed the need for 3 medical aspirators for the facility’s patients, as the existing machines were outdated, worn out, and the lack of spare parts on the market made it difficult to repair them. Such medical devices were essential to greatly accelerate the hospital’s response to emergencies, to clear airways, treat respiratory distress and perform surgery.

Thanks Salute e Sviluppo, today, the ‘Beato Luigi Tezza’ health centre in Kakumbo (Côte d’Ivoire) offers the population a complete, adequate and accurate diagnosis through reliable and quality results. Now, many patients can have biochemical examinations here, without having to travel many kilometres to find a well-equipped laboratory that can accommodate them.

It has been a year since we launched the project ‘Cultivating Value: good practices and innovative methods for inclusive and sustainable agro-livestock production’ with funding from the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development (AICS) e la partecipazione di vari partners. During these months, we have pursued the results we set ourselves by trying to improve the managerial and technical capacities, production, processing and transformation of the products of the Bagré farm and livestock enterprise managed by the Burkinabé NGO SAPHE.

The project that saw us at the forefront of supporting the elderly of the Acomba community in the Huancavelica region of Peru has recently come to an end. In synergy with the Asociación Corazones & Manos Solidarias San Francisco, we decided last year to inaugurate the ‘Equipped Outpatient Clinic for Huancavelica – for the benefit of the underprivileged in the third age’, consisting of the purchase of medicines, supplements, nutritional supplements and hygiene items for the clinic.

It is now a year since we announced the start of the ‘Projet d’humanisation de la Maison d’Arret et de Correction de Ouagadougou (MACO)’, the largest prison in the capital of Burkina Faso. We decided to inaugurate the activity following a report from the Camillian fathers of the prison chaplaincy, who notified us of the urgent need to intervene to humane the treatment of inmates, confined in a precarious facility, where overcrowding is only the most obvious problem.