We finance our humanitarian work in Ethiopia exclusively with donations from private individuals and companies.
We urgently need financial support so that we can continue and further develop the GO STAR project. Donations enable us to purchase and transport the necessary surgical material and bone implants. In addition, projects are being planned to ensure new standards of hygiene and wound care in particular, as well as important infrastructure.
The Board of Trustees and the GO STAR team work exclusively on a voluntary basis. Employees who work as specialists in Jimma only receive a modest compensation for loss of earnings. The costs for travelling, insurance and accommodation also have to be financed by donations.
Only 8% of the income from donations is used for administration.
Your support has a direct impact on the ground!
finance an operation for an Ethiopian patient.
finance the manufacture and fitting of a lower leg prosthesis in the orthopaedic workshop and thus support the rehabilitation of an amputee.
finance a much more elaborately manufactured thigh prosthesis.
enable the prosthetic treatment of all amputees in an average Ethiopian village.
per year covers the cost of a fully equipped hospital bed and includes the medical care and aftercare of a patient as well as their meals.
enables the purchase of a dermatome. This handy precision device can be used to remove and transplant large areas of skin that are a tenth of a millimetre thick. More than 500 patients a year receive a skin graft at the hospital in Jimma, which drastically reduces infections and wound healing disorders.
Swiss surgeons in Ehtiopia
c/o Luzerner Kantonsspital
Spitalstrasse 16
CH-6000 Luzern
IBAN CH62 0900 0000 6033 4455 9
