Treating Children in the Foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro

A look at some of the orphanage outreach clinics

Oct 09, 2024

The HHA team conduct clinics in a few orphanages around Moshi. In some cases, the children are not orphans in the true sense of the word, in that often their parents are still alive. Some children are there because their parents are simply too poor to feed their children, other children have been abandoned by their parents and in some cases they have been rescued from abusive living circumstances.

The Rau Day Care Centre was originally set up by HHA. It provides care to young children whose parents are working in the local area. The centre provides schooling and food to these children. The centre is now run by another NGO as HHA no longer had the funding to keep it going.

Halima Orphanage Centre is a new clinic on the HHA schedule, running since July this year. We were able to see children for the follow up of their first prescription as well as many new cases. We took 17 cases in a 3 1/2 hour period, all children received individualised prescriptions.

Neema International orphanage and boarding school. Many of the children have been taken from highly abusive situations and provided with a safe place to live.

Some cases

A 13 year old boy had pain in the eyes with lachrymation. He could see but not clearly. His background showed an alcoholic mother and absent father. He had been brought to the orphanage as he was causing trouble on the street. He had been well behaved since arriving at the orphanage but was restless in class and would get up and leave the room. Questioning determined that the lights in the classroom caused him to have severe pain in his eyes and trigger the lachrymation. The sensation of the pain was of pulling, as if his eyes were pulled together. He would often get a nosebleed when startled. He had dreams of being chased by his mother who was carrying a knife, this was a strong symptom as he had the dream often. He liked animals but had a fear of snakes. The repertorisation showed Spigella and Lac felinum as the top two remedies.

Materia medica differentiation shows Spigella has an affinity for eyes (as we saw in last weeks post). Lac felinium also has many eye symptoms as well as a fear of knives, sharp pains in the eyes like knives in the eyes, there is also a mental symptom of every little fault appears as a crime. So Lac felinium was prescribed in a 12C potency to be taken daily for a month with follow up next month.

An interesting follow up case involved a 16 year old male who initially had behavioural problems and daytime sleepiness with a peculiar dream of being a surgeon. The prescription was Lac leonium. His behaviour and sleepiness had improved on the remedy and he had stopped having the dream. He now presented with an acute cough. An intermittent remedy was prescribed for the cough (Dulcamara) with instructions to return to Lac leonium in a few days time. This case indicates that it is perfectly okay to give an acute remedy during constitutional treatment.

Donate

If you would like to support any of these organisations by donating please have a look at the links below. The money is used for purpose and not lost in an endless hierarchy of administration.

Donating to HHA helps these clinics to continue running https://www.homeopathyforhealthinafrica.org/donate

Halima Orphanage https://halimaorphanagecenter.org/who-we-are.php contact them to see how you can help.

Neema Orphanage https://www.neemainternational.org/donate