Helping locally - Chemnitz doctor talks about her commitment to an aid project in Uganda
Talk at the Central Library on 17 September, 7 pm
Over the past few years, Chemnitz-based GP Ines Weckert-Nebel has travelled to Uganda twice with friends to work on a medical project in the town of Mbale. For example, they helped to set up a doctor's surgery and treated patients free of charge. On her second trip last year, she travelled to the rural area around Mbale with Ugandan nurses and doctors, medical equipment, medicines and water and provided medical aid in various villages. The volunteer work and donations made it possible to support people and projects that need help the most.
On Monday 17 September at 7 p.m. in the TIETZ Central Library, Dr Ines Weckert-Nebel will talk about her experiences and reflections and invites you to discuss the possibilities and limits of development aid. Admission is free.
The lecture is part of the travelling exhibition "Welcome to Europe - EU policy endangers human lives" by the aid organisation Doctors Without Borders in the TIETZ Central Library.
Photo exhibition "Welcome to Europe - EU policy endangers human lives" until Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Despite restrictive immigration regulations, migrants repeatedly risk their lives to reach Europe in search of refuge, protection and better living conditions. The regulations force people to take ever greater risks, which have a negative impact on their physical and mental health. Since 2000, Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing emergency medical aid for these people, including programmes in Malta, Italy and Greece. The 24 motifs in the exhibition are taken from various humanitarian aid projects run by Médecins Sans Frontières and tell of the migrants' fear during their flight and the inhumane living conditions they find on arrival instead of protection.