Living convictions - Dr Ione in the Central African Republic (Part VIII)

In 1968, Dr Ione, then a young medical student from Italy, came to the newly independent Central African Republic to help run a hospital in the north. Since then, she has spent thirty-four years in the country, living through rebellions, mutinies, intermittent progress, and desperation.

In the final part of our interview series, Dr Ione explains the action undertaken by her NGO to support health centres during a period not exceeding five months. She emphasizes the need to quickly switch from humanitarian assistance (providing medicine and care) to development in order to restore the system as it was before the turmoil. After 34 years in the country, Dr Ione is still full of optimism, convinced that peace and development can and will be restored in the Central African Republic. She will keep on carrying this message to the rebels, to the government, to the population, and to whoever feels that the current situation of Central African men and women is unacceptable.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Central African Republic
• Humanitarian Crisis
• HDPT
• Ngaoundaye
• Ouham
• Pende
• COOPI
• health
• development
• ione