Hippocrates

ChildAid helped them smile.

Hippocrates bring hope to the hopeless

Hippocrates is a Children's Health Centre which improves the life quality of chronically ill children from socially vulnerable families.

By working with parents of young children, Hippocrates are able to give a hope to the family and prevent the child being abandoned to a life locked away in an institution.

Through rehabilitation and parental education Hippocrates facilitates the children's integration into society.  The aim is to optimise the child’s potential for the future through physical control and development of their young bodies.


Future Plans

ChildAid is hoping to relocate Hippocrates to a larger, purpose-built premises so they can help more children with enhanced services and with successful integration into their local communuities. The current premises are far too small and restrict the provision of high quality care.

 

Land has been purchased and designs drawn up for a 2-phase development. Foundations will soon be laid but additional funds are urgently needed to bring this vision into reality - find out more >>

Stela's doctors said she'd never walk

At birth her leg muscles and nerves were too badly damaged. She needed special therapy but her parents were too poor to afford it. Hippocrates offered free regular therapies and have since taught her to walk - her outlook is transformed.

Current Services

  • individual medical evaluation and assessment
  • specialist medical consultations
  • physio, speech and occupational therapies
  • massage & provision of orthopaedic equipment
  • psychological counselling & special needs education
  • education in health and hygiene
  • family aid
  • arrangement of orthopaedic and cardiac operations

Following a specific donation we are able to help children who require life saving heart operations and have contributed to the cost of such tretment to 4 children to date.

Help transform lives

You can make a direct difference in the lives of children like Stela, find out how to sponsor a disabled child in Moldova >>

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Click on the link below to enter Amazon, and 5% of your order price will come to ChildAid and can help provide therapies for Stela and many children like her - at no extra cost to you.

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