03. Good health and well-being

A mutual insurance company has been set up to facilitate access to healthcare by sharing the risks of illness. It fights against the poor reception of mutualist patients. There is a saying that goes: "A patient who is well taken care of is already half-cured".

As this problem continues to spread more and more in our GUATEMALA and in other countries, we nowadays see how aggression, violence and even suicide are handled. That is why the adolescent shows signs of being afraid to go to school, even in different places. That is why I invite all people, parents, and students to collaborate and help eradicate this problem.

Some parents of poor families in rural areas are unable to provide sufficient food for their children. With the aim of healing, awareness campaigns and demonstrations on how to prepare a balanced diet are held.

The central market was untidy like many other markets in Benin. Illnesses were also recurrent for the users, following this bitter observation, the ideas of hygiene and sanitation were born. These efforts have resulted in a healthy market.

Today I am happy to be a competent midwife able to accompany mothers and children before, during and after childbirth in the community.

I believe it’s important to know about vegetarianism and debunk some of its misconceptions. There are many reasons why #IDONTEATMEAT.

This Digital History was written by Ana Maria de Paula Pereira, a student living in Ji-Paraná-RO, Brazil. Through poetry, she tells us about her experience as a volunteer in the clown troupe "Sorria" that brings joy to hospitalized children.

Before discovering the non-indigenous culture, the Surui people lived peacefully and free from disease. That was in 1968. Our goal is to build a hospital here in our own village in the future. We are young indigenous people; warriors and we are going to make a better standard of living for our people.

In the past, our food was healthy. The more we made contact with non-indigenous people, the greater was the change in our diet, bringing new diseases. We also suffer from the invasion of our land and deforestation. But contact has also brought some good things, like football and technology. In the end, we cannot escape from our culture, custom and tradition, because it is our identity.

It is often said that water is life, but the difficulties of access to drinking water encountered by the inhabitants of the city of Lubumbashi leaves me perplexed. We call on the Congolese state to realise the seriousness of the situation and to invest massively in this sector before the situation gets out of hand.