Ambulance ride: From the conflict area to the hospital
550 kilometers to the nearest hospital on difficult roads is often the only chance of survival for girls and women affected by genital mutilation, especially pregnant women.
Due to the armed conflict in Afar, TARGET's gynecology and obstetrics clinic had to be evacuated*. Nevertheless, we continue to support the women in Afar: our ambulance takes patients to the nearest functioning hospital. This means that the patient, driver and doctor travel 1,100 kilometers over unpaved, sandy and stony desert terrain (there and back). A feat of strength for the team and our ambulance vehicle. Finance an ambulance trip from the Afar region to the nearest hospital with 247 euros.
* In November 2020, an armed conflict broke out between the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian central government in the Tigray region (Danakil Desert) in northern Ethiopia. Assault rifles, grenade launchers, rockets, tanks, casualties - hundreds of thousands of people fled. The humanitarian emergency began. In January 2022, the fighting reached TARGET's gynecology and obstetrics clinic in the neighboring Afar region. The clinic was evacuated in time. The peace negotiations at the end of October 2022 ended positively. Now we hope with the people on the ground.
