Nature can hit youth unjustly. The picture of a child with a mutilated face is not nice to see. And yet!
Must we look down when facing such injustice? Our Association’s answer is a categorical NO!
We believe in solidarity : we can unite to help them, even if these children are kilometres away from us.
One must be able to confront reality even when it’s hard to bear:
Let us unite to help them!
You as well, you can help me by sending your gifts in kind or money *
What will your donations be used for?
Humanitarian freight services, which dispatch my parcels to Burkina Faso accept only medecines, small medical equipment and milk.
On 3 March 2004, I took for the first time, my first parcels to the freight zone:
Loaded on to the freight cart, I discuss with the conveyor when the consignment will be arriving at Orly airport…
My parcels, chock-a-block with medicines, first-age milk, spectacles, sterile transfusion bags and catheters etc., will leaving that same evening!
Admittedly, its sentimental, but once loaded on the cart, I feel as though its a small part of my joy-filled heart that is also going to fly off…
To continue my “soft medical therapy” by sending small toys and also clothes for toddlers, I have no other course of action than sending them as small parcels by ordinary post, which is costly.
Should you know of a better air-freight method, allowing my toys to reach their destination quickly and at a competitve price, then please contact me *,
My material needs are the following:
first-age maternal milk (available in big stores and hypermarkets, regardless of the product label)
clothes for infants (very small sizes for newly-born or premature babies), including : coton brassières (4 Euros in stores) all-in-one jumpers (6 Euros) small socks (4 Euros) small head bonnets (3Euros )
This ’flowering’ of small baby jumpsuits hanging out to dry in the February sun is part of the donations from some of you : I purchased the others with Association funds but also with my own.
Before packing, they are washed, sterilised, ironed out and carefully arranged for the infants of the Ouahigouya maternity.
Pediatric medecines that have not exceeded their sell-by dates in the following categories:
(paracetamol, aspirine, amoxilline (sirup, injectable, pills), ampicilline (injectable), cloxacilline (injectable), second generation cephalosporines (all kind), furosemides, macrolides, collyres.
Your doctor or your pharmacist knows these medecines and can supply them. Print this page and show it to him: he cannot be untouched and will give them to you free.
If you need to, print this page and show it to him : he cannot fail to be moved.
But I also accept all other types of medicines because they will always be useful for other illnesses that are being treated at the regional hospital.
The Doctor ZALA has clearly explained how a family that is ill and is suffering can momentarily no longer look after its children, and in turn a child who is not cared for, will himself become ill.) All medical supplies are therefore useful, and must be retrieved to be sent to help these people!
All such gifts sent to me will be forwarded directly to the Burkinabe pedatrician, the Doctor ZALA, with whom I am in regular contact by Internet, and who each time confirms their safe arrival, often sending photographs as proof.
I know, like all of you, that pharmacies already collect for different associations and causes, but often one ignores precisely to whom they are destined and where the medical gifts have gone.
The Association “Le Sourire sucre les Larmes” (roughly translated as “Smiles sweeten the Tears”) has chosen to focus on this illness and to help these young children.
If you send me your packets, you have my garantee that they will arrive at the regional hospital of Ouahigouya. The more numerous you all are in trusting me, the more we can all together help care for these children.
So, you also can contact me via email for any other questions you may have *
* See our Contact-Us page
Moments of joy at the hospital : the children, seated quietly, await the distribution of the small toys I have sent.
This young boy is endearing : despite his illness, look at his smile. A toy is also a form of treatment and an additional way to mend.
Hand in hand, let us look in the same direction…
