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Day 5

A tetanus vaccination for a garbage child in the Philippines

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A tetanus vaccination for a garbage child in the Philippines
Day 5
Health care in the garbage dumps of Cebu City

After Metro Manila, Cebu City is the second most important metropolitan area in the Philippines and has the most important commercial port in the country. As an important commercial center, Cebu City is a magnet for the poor rural population of the surrounding islands who come to the city in the hope of finding work. Unfortunately, these hopes are often not fulfilled because the job seekers are rarely qualified. So they and their families end up in the numerous slums and garbage dumps on the outskirts of the city. There they search through the garbage for recyclables that can be sold. The hygienic conditions in the settlements are extremely hazardous to health. Without sturdy shoes and protective gloves, children and adults injure themselves while collecting recyclable garbage and become infected with tetanus. Without immunization through a protective vaccination, the infection is often fatal.

Health care in the garbage dumps of Cebu City
need
Tetanus vaccinations for children and adolescents in Cebu City.
activity
German Doctors buys tetanus vaccine doses and syringes and vaccinates the children and young people on site.
Measurable performance
Number of children and adolescents who were able to receive basic immunization against tetanus.
Result
Approximately 2000 children and adolescents (6000 individual vaccinations, corresponding to 2000 children and adolescents vaccinated three times) are effectively protected against the usually fatal tetanus infection.
Systemically relevant impact
Fewer children die from the infectious disease. Children's standard of living and educational opportunities improve thanks to stable health.
background

There is a very large poverty gap in the Philippines. The 10 richest families in the country together own 56.2% of the shares. 6% of families control 60% of the agricultural land. Large parts of the population have little to no land ownership. 70% of the population in rural areas have to live on less than one US dollar a day. According to UNICEF, the Philippines is one of the 10 countries with the most malnourished children under the age of 5.

Due to the extreme poverty in rural areas, more and more families are migrating to urban centers in the hope of a better livelihood. Once there, they settle in slums (a quarter of Manila's population alone lives in slums) and work as day laborers or garbage collectors. Over 18% of these families depend on the work of their children to survive. Although schooling is free in the Philippines, many families cannot do without the work of their children, who are therefore no longer "co-breadwinners."

Cebu City, Central Visayas
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The good deed

German Doctors' mobile clinic serves 17 locations in poor neighborhoods in Cebu City, which were selected based on the precarious living conditions of the people. The team, consisting of a driver, a doctor, a pharmacist and a translator, treats 60-80 people per location and supplies them with medication. Around 50% of these are children and young people. If they do not have one, they are given a triple tetanus vaccination to protect against the dangerous infectious disease. Malnutrition and extremely unhygienic living conditions make children and young people particularly susceptible to infections of all kinds.

AboutPhilippines
Manila
Manila
Capital city
100 699 400
100 699 400
Population
2 863 USD
2 863 USD
Gross domestic product per capita per year
115
115
Human Development Index (Human Development Index)

The Philippines is an archipelago with 7107 islands, 880 of which are inhabited. Only 11 are larger than 2500 square kilometers. 20 active volcanoes and to the east of the archipelago one of the deepest sea trenches in the world with depths of up to 10540m
About the organization and further information

organization

Crime Scene Streets of the World eV

Website

http://www.tatort-verein.org

Initiative for Transparent Civil Society

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