Sponsorship for pediatric surgery with Orabank Togo

This year, La Chaîne de l’Espoir turns 30. Since 1994, it has been providing surgical care to vulnerable children suffering from a variety of pathologies. Thanks to the support of donors and sponsors, the organization is able to operate with complete flexibility and independence.
This is illustrated by the partnership forged with Orabank Togo, a committed banking institution.

With the arrival of Covid-19, many associations saw their funding dwindle, while needs, particularly in healthcare, increased. It was at this time that La Chaîne de l’Espoir’s Togo office began looking for both institutional and private funding at national level to finance its various activities. And so, in 2022, the partnership with Orabank Togo was born.

This is the first collaboration of its kind since the launch of La Chaîne de l’Espoir’s sponsorship activities in Togo.

The concrete achievements of this sponsorship action :

In addition to the missions for the medical management of brachial plexus injuries, Orabank Togo’s financial support contributed to the itinerant pediatric surgery mission that took place at the Tchamba Prefectural Hospital Center (CHP) from July 21 to 26, 2024.

Following the example of previous itinerant missions, this mission, which took place in Tchamba, aimed to “delocalize” care to enable rural and isolated populations to be treated.

This itinerant mission was carried out with the support of French volunteer anaesthetists from La CDE, anaesthetic technicians from the CHU SO and Dr. Eudes Ulrich Goudjo, a former grant recipient from La Chaîne de l’Espoir and now a paediatric surgeon from Benin.

Once again, the main players in this mission – the 15th of its kind! – were the students of the Diplôme d’Études Spécialisées en Chirurgie Pédiatrique (DES-CP) attached to the CHU SO, who gained in experience and skills. Good news for the empowerment of Togolese medical teams and, by extension, for access to healthcare!