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Fides News – EnglishAFRICA/LIBERIA – Medical support for people with disabilities or in situations of extreme poverty​

Foya – For some years now, the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, a remote strip of land in Liberia, with the formation of a charitable group, has begun to support the medical expenses of those who are unable to do so, especially the disabled and people in extreme poverty. Fr. Lorenzo Snider, a priest of the Society of African Missions has been taking care of the community for the past few years and has launched a project that provides, among other things, medical visits and basic medicines for people with physical disabilities or in extreme poverty; supplies of basic medicines for people with epileptic disorders and treatment for other mental illnesses; powdered milk and peanut paste for malnourished children; and support for emergency surgery.

“From treatment for malaria, to infections, prenatal visits,” says the missionary, who is parish priest of St John Vianney. As we started to help, new scenarios opened up: people with epileptic seizures, unable to pay for their therapy of 20 cents a day, then malnourished children, due to the death of the mother because of post-natal problems or other situations. There are also those who present themselves to the parish with neglected sores due to poverty, which they have suffered perhaps for years or in some cases decades.”

If all goes well, explains Fr. Snider, 500 people a year will benefit from this support at the Foya Health Centre, followed by the SMA fathers, , at the hospital in Borma or the one in Gueckedou ; 20 people with epileptic disorders, 20 families with malnourished children.
Foya – For some years now, the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, a remote strip of land in Liberia, with the formation of a charitable group, has begun to support the medical expenses of those who are unable to do so, especially the disabled and people in extreme poverty. Fr. Lorenzo Snider, a priest of the Society of African Missions has been taking care of the community for the past few years and has launched a project that provides, among other things, medical visits and basic medicines for people with physical disabilities or in extreme poverty; supplies of basic medicines for people with epileptic disorders and treatment for other mental illnesses; powdered milk and peanut paste for malnourished children; and support for emergency surgery.“From treatment for malaria, to infections, prenatal visits,” says the missionary, who is parish priest of St John Vianney. As we started to help, new scenarios opened up: people with epileptic seizures, unable to pay for their therapy of 20 cents a day, then malnourished children, due to the death of the mother because of post-natal problems or other situations. There are also those who present themselves to the parish with neglected sores due to poverty, which they have suffered perhaps for years or in some cases decades.”If all goes well, explains Fr. Snider, 500 people a year will benefit from this support at the Foya Health Centre, followed by the SMA fathers, , at the hospital in Borma or the one in Gueckedou ; 20 people with epileptic disorders, 20 families with malnourished children. 

German farmers supporting extreme right-wing

German farmers are supporting the extreme right-wing after the center-left government reduced the subsidy on fossil fuels.

It made the usual mistake that governments make in how they do this:
they cut that subsidy and changed nothing else. The effect on farmers
was an immediate loss of income and they had no better alternative to
shift to.

The subsidy for fossil fuel must end. One way to end it without
crushing the farmers is to make the subsidy not depend on whether
they buy fossil fuel.
Then they will have an incentive to switch to a substitute — if and
when one exists. The government should actively make electric
tractors a reality.

Don’t forget that farmers can no longer own a tractor — the manufacturer
designs them with proprietary software, which is malware: it snoops on
the farmer’s actions and on data it measures about the farm, and it even has
a remote shut-off switch.

This ought to be illegal.

Understudied and underaddressed: Femicide, an extreme form of violence against women and girls

by Chen Reis, Sarah R. Meyer

Little is known about the prevalence and dynamics of femicide, a persistent form of violence against women and girls, due to challenges associated with its documentation. Research by Abrahams and colleagues comparing rates of femicide in South Africa over 18 years, however, suggests that femicide is preventable.

In this Perspective, Chen Reis and Sarah Meyer discuss the incidence and dynamics of femicide globally and highlight the urgent need for better data and documentation to enact policies aimed at prevention, early detection, and timely intervention in cases of femicide.