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30.04.2021
Country director with passion
Benatus Sambili started as country director in Ifakara, Tanzania, last April. He is the first local country coordinator in a SolidarMed programme country. The public health expert and family man wants to further strengthen teamwork and SolidarMed's work in Tanzania.
In response to the consequences of the Covid 19 pandemic, SolidarMed supports the distribution of food parcels on site. The distribution of the parcels is aimed at 800 affected families.
In close collaboration with EssentialTech and the Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials (LFIM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), SolidarMed is developing a cold box over the next two years that does not require electricity and can maintain a temperature of 2 to 8 °C for weeks.
Remote health care centres in Africa are not the most attractive working locations, even for local professionals and their families. Jobs often remain unfilled if appropriate housing options are lacking. Therefore, since 2013, SolidarMed has successfully got involved in the construction and operation of simple staff housing facilities in Zambia.
9-year-old Beda Meyer finds it hard to put down his file and glue stick. In the spring of 2021, he came up with the idea of creating individual cell phone holders out of wood and cardboard. He quickly converted his parents' Corona-closed restaurant into a workshop. During the winter months, the creative mind busily created numerous of these small pieces of art.