In the Maldivesthe Thalassaemia International Project of the IME Foundation, institutional partner of Save Children’s Life.
These photos report the first fact-finding mission and the activies on the field together with the Society for Health Education (SHE)
First meeting
Ms Maria Chiera and a group of girls suffering with Thalassaemia
Dott. Paola Polchi, Dr.Naila Firdous, Ms Maria Chiera, Mrs Nasreena Gayoom (First lady) and Mr Carlo Giacoma
Meeting at the National Thalassaemia Center
Meeting with the Minister of Health
The laboratory ...
Press conference
Let's go north...
At the arrival...
At the hospital entrance...
There are so many children
Waiting for our volunteers...
Ms Shaz Naeem is in Great Britain now, to get a Master's degree in Genetics, thanks to a Save Children's Life scholarship.
To check and to test...
The garden...
That evening more than 600 kids went by...
Ms Maria with a volunteer of ours
