Support Domingo & Mamanafrica Humanitaria

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Domingo Bermudez is a senior NHS Nurse but each year goes on a 'busman's holiday' to Senegal with a team of family members and friends from his home town in Tenerife to provide humanitarian support to a number of communities.

The team comprises medical professionals as well as lay volunteers - no one is paid for their work with this legally registered association and they self-fund their personal travel to Senegal.

" Who are we? A small family organized into a non-profit association that works because it believes that a better world is possible. We develop small projects with great impacts."

The Mamanáfrica Humanitarian Association, founded in 2014, is a non-profit association established for the purpose of providing, equipping, contributing to and improving the educational, sporting and health aspects of African children.

The Association is active in Senegal, in various cities such as Dakar, Thies, Mbour, Kaolack, Kedougou and Pays Bassari. As for the projects, it is active in the Kolda Region and in the Tambacounda Region.

We work in three different areas: HEALTH, collaborating with medicines, medical supplies and equipment; EDUCATION, providing educational and school supplies; and finally, SPORTS, providing sports supplies.

Full details of their remarkable work can be found at their website https://mamanafrica.es/ (which Google Translate can convert into English for you!)

Our work has expanded considerably in recent years and future funds are always needed as the scope of our activities increases. The purpose of this GoFundMe page is to make it easy for donors outside Spain to contribute to our work.

Our latest project in 2024 is their most ambitious yet: A 'Welcome and Listening House' refuge for Talibes children in this city, built with the support of the Tambacoundan City Council (@Le Mairie de TambacoundA) and the Association.

Talibes children are little beggars, almost always male and under twelve years old, who live under the "custody" of clerics called maraboos. Under the pretext of learning the Qur'an, they live many years in absolute helplessness begging on the streets to deliver alms to the maraboos at the end of the day. Over time, they end up separated from their real families and are almost always doomed to live forever on the street, with an immense range of danger, abuse, harassment and disease. The Association has established this home where the children can groom, eat and be treated for their diseases and pathologies. We hope it will be the first of several similar projects. A film of this project can be found on our Facebook page: asociación mamanafrica humanitaria senegal : https://www.facebook.com/100070878654435/videos/1713401342817601/

Any support you can give will be enormously appreciated and every penny goes into the work.