Exclusively for L’Ora Solare, a story that will soon have a happy ending: the story of little Eva, originally from Ghana, sold as a maid to a woman who punished her by immersing her arms in boiling water.
She managed to escape and was put in touch with a doctor who is going to give her back the use of her hands, a guest of Paola Saluzzi: Prof. Marco Lanzetta, a hand surgeon and president of GICAM, an NGO that provides reconstructive surgery for children in the poorest areas of the world. He is the Scientific Director and Head of International Programmes at the Italian Institute of Hand Surgery and the National Arthrosis Center.
In these difficult times, our thoughts are with two countries we visited in recent months and we have asked our partner doctors there to tell us about their experiences in
Dear friends of Gicam! The global pandemic has greatly restricted freedom of movement between various countries and this applies to humanitarian missions as well. We completed two missions to India