secret ambition

Between child mortality and a life in abundance

Did you know that German people are wasting a dramatically high number of food? One person about 85kg = 187lbs. each year. You can feed a whole town in Burundi (Central Africa) from that garbage. As a result about half of the children, between 0 until 5 years old, would die because of hunger. In contrast we are living our life full of high-tech houses with big swimming-pools in the garden complaining about our biggest problem nowadays time and money while little kids in African bushes dieing because of HIV.

My secret ambition is to become a doctor in Burundi and help the people to be freed from slavery, oppression and hunger. The country is located in Central Africa, close to the Sahara. Life us very harsh there and water is very difficult to find. In addition the air is very dry and sandstorms are no great rarity.

Some important facts to mention are that the child mortality is around 62 from 1000 kids born in the year 2011.

In contrast to emphasize the dramatic situation, in the USA the number is 6 from 1000 born children. Furthermore the concentration of doctors working there is terrifyingly small. About 0,03 physician for 1000 inhabitants. In opposite to the United Nations there are about 3 doctors for 1000 citizen.

As you can see Burundi needs our help to develop first a good infrastructure in order to travel around. That way if there is an emergency a physician can immediately be at the place. Moreover, you need electricity and running water to enhance the life status. Besides this you need to build schools in order to facilitate education for children e.g. to plant their fruits and vegetables.

My secret ambition is to become a doctor and to settle down there, start projects to encourage the people for a better life. IN this case you need, beside excellent knowledge about medicine and the human body, to also know about culture in order to understand people’s behavior.