Recently, primary care physician Alicia Lucardie left for Indonesia to support the local teams there in setting up and making the See & Treat projects sustainable. Read her first impressions here.

Selamat!!! I have just landed in Jakarta, Indonesia, where I will be supporting the See & Treat projects as a supervising physician for the coming period. It is also Ramadan in the largest Muslim country in the world. You can hear the Azan (call to prayer) sound as I take my suitcase off the belt. Binnen an hour after landing, I am on the doorstep of the hotel where I will stay for the next night. It is less than 500m from RSCM, the largest academic hospital in Indonesia.

I look forward to working with the Female Cancer Program (FCP) and the various See & Treat project teams in Indonesia, including in Sumbawa, Batam, Java and Lombok. I will also help establish and develop the Cervical Cancer Centre of Excellence (CCCE) research institute in Jakarta as a physician clinical researcher. The extensive expertise and dedication of doctors like Dr. Laila and Dr. Gatot have ensured that the See & Treat program is here to stay, and has even become part of the national screening program. I feel privileged to contribute in this way to a world without cervical cancer. Sampai jumpt bertemu lagi!

The Female Cancer Foundation is already for the 3rd year as the charity of NextWomen on board. To prevent cervical cancer and reduce the amount of women dying of this disease on Sumbawa (Indonesia) and in Uganda (East Africa), we started a crowdfunding campaign on Oneplanetcrowd.

 

Together with us you can give women on Sumbawa and in Uganda a chance to a healthy future by supporting and sharing our campaign: http://opc.to/FCF

 

For 500 Euro we can give 50 women (and their children) a chance to a healthy future!