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Enerpoint for Angal

admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:22:28 +0000

Also this year Enerpoint , a company that works in the field of solar energy, historic supporter of our Association, dedicates a portion of the budget for Christmas in contributing to several charity missions, including Angal.

In their web site, in the section dedicated to a “Enerpoint for l’Africa“, they write:

Since 1998 the Friends of Angal founded by Dr. Mario Marsiaj follows, among many projects, a special one dedicated to the “Free Admission of children tu cures”.

Support from partners and donors is extremely important to allow the missionaries to continue to give their help, by making more and more autonomous the hospitals in the North West of Uganda.

They really deserve our deepest gratitude!

Another way to help

admin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:18:59 +0000

On September 26^th, 2010 there was the wedding of Dr. Claudia Martina. Three years ago whe was in Angal for one full month dedicated to the teaching of ultrasound techniques to the local staff, doctors and midwives.

Since then Angal has always remained in her heart, so that, in the occasion of her marriage, she decided to forego the wedding gifts in favor of a donation to support the projects of “Amici di Angal.”

On behalf of all shareholders we congratulate, thanking her for the generous decision and wish her the best for her life.

We also want to take this opportunity to thank all the people who make similar choices in particularly significant moments in their lives. These gifts are a great help to the association and are a sign of a continued attention to fill the inequality between those who have little and the overflowing of our consumer society.

Leader Convention

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:53:14 +0000

Casciana Terme (Pisa) 4 settembre 2010 – The initiative of the owners of Leader SpA in Florence – to help Angal Hospital continues.

Leader is a company specialized in organizing training courses for plant engineers in the field of photovoltaic panels. They first knew Angal through a friend and supporter, dr.Paolo Rocco Viscontini, owner of Enerpoint, who, besides building two houses for the nurses, also provided a solar panels emplant at Angal Hospital.

For three years, during these classes, the organizers propose several initiatives to support the projects of our Association and since two years thet have invited Mario and Claudia to present these projects during their annual convention, which brings together their employees (over 200) from all over Italy.

Once again, the meeting was very rewarding especially for the warm welcome received from a public which is already sensitized and very interested in what the association is trying to do to ensure that the hospital in Angal continues to help the poor , especially the children.

So thanks a lot particularly to the founders of Leader, Mr. Belsole and Prosperi, to Mr. Giannone and Falini and to all the organizing Team .

Bridges of Solidarity

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:05:26 +0000

from “Arena” newspaper, Monday, May 17, 2010 CHRONICLE page 15

BRIDGES OF SOLIDARITY. Next Monday and doctors Marsiaj Salvi in San Benedetto in Valdonega – On the track the Friends of Aber, hope for African patients.

Aber Friends, the group founded in the 60s to support a new mission hospital in Uganda, Aber, will organize next Monday, May 24, at 20.45, in the parish of St. Benedict Valdonega an open meeting with Dr. Mario Marsiaj and his wife Claudia, who will tell about their experiences in Uganda, at Angal hospital.

They assist hospitals in Uganda, Malawi, Chad and Congo. An exhibition of handicrafts to raise funds.

The meeting will be an opportunity to consider the forty years experience of the group, which includes Dr. Giorgio Salvi who committed himself in the ’60s as a doctor in Uganda. “That experience was also an opportunity for the establishment of a partnership between the hospitals of Verona – whose president was Jean-Baptiste Rossi at the time – and two other Uganda missionary hospitals, by sending doctors, qualified staff and specialists for an exchange of experiences, “says Salvi, introducing the evening with fellow Marsiaj. Italian doctors are still numerous, particularly those sent by Cuamm from Padova, working in northern Uganda, along with Ugandan doctors. Among these it is particularly famous the hospital in Gulu, now university, supported by a foundation once headed by the Italian-Canadian Piero and Lucille Corti who taught to Dr. Salvi. Dr. Corti and his wife, who also led to a film screened by RAI, have given their lives to that hospital. Marsiaj, who later would found in Negrar the Department of Tropical Medicine, worked in those years at Angal Hospital, also in northern Uganda, and still regularly goes to give his support. The group Friends of Aber has expanded over time to support other African hospitals. It is currently helping Angal hospital as well as a hospital in Malawi, one in Chad and another in the north east of Congo.
“We especially try to send regularly contributions to support ongoing initiatives mainly in the prevention and cure of child diseases,” says Salvi, recalling that “the group maintains through regular contributions of members and other supporters and through initiatives promoted twice a year, during May and December.
The next exhibition-sale of African handcrafts will take place from Wednesday 26 to Friday, May 28 (next week) in a room of the church of Santa Maria della Scala (Verona). The experiences of Marsiaj and Salvi will be presented on Monday taking its cue from a journey or pilgrimage made by Dr. Gianfranco Carletti in the Algerian Sahara, following the footsteps of Charles de Foucauld, recently made saint. EG