Life is just a story of encounters. Three young Matamais, leaders of a development association from their native Senegalese region, diagnose a significant deficit in the provision of eye care in Matam, a large city in the north-east of Senegal where they are natives. Via the internet, they began looking for a structure capable of supporting them in developing an intervention program.
\nOur NGO comes out of the hat and, after a few working sessions in Paris where ADM's headquarters are located, the Matam Development Association and Voir la Vie decide to soon open an optical center in Senegal. The inaugural ribbon is not planned for right away, aware of the distance we still have to go to get there. But action being the common DNA of our two associations, the reflection phase carried out during the first half of 2018 will launch an evaluation mission this summer. The meeting of local authorities will make it possible to position the current administrative provisions. An audit of existing medical structures, an exchange with public health personnel, an identification of possible locations... are part of the menu that awaits the participating representatives of our two associations.
\nThe experience of Voir la Vie in Senegal goes back some time, when we set up an ambitious program aimed at providing them with cataract operating kits as well as 3 other neighboring West African countries including Guinea, Gambia and Mali. Finding Senegal again is a great challenge but also a great joy because the welcome there is so fond in our memories!<\/p>\n
In the photo: Abou NDIONGUE, secretary and Abdoul DIAW, president<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"gsap_anim_timeline":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam.jpg",1000,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam-768x384.jpg",768,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam.jpg",1000,500,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam.jpg",1000,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam.jpg",1000,500,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam.jpg",18,9,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/act_NewsMatam-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Nicolas G\u00e9rakis","author_link":"https:\/\/voirlavie.org\/en\/author\/nicolas_i54l2rfz\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"La vie n\u2019est qu\u2019une histoire de rencontres. 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