WDF’s 2022 Fundraiser
Increasing awareness and providing diabetes care in Hargeisa, Somaliland
Our fundraising programme allows donors to directly support diabetes prevention and care projects. Learn more
Our vision is to alleviate human suffering related to diabetes among those in greatest need
Toujours le courage – Alhassane Diallo
It was back in 2006, on a trip north with his father and twin brother, that Alhassane first noticed that something was wrong. He was urinating constantly, tired, and losing weight. His father took him to a clinic run by a mining company operating in the region, where he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. He was seven years old.
This was only ten years after professional diabetes services had been introduced to the Republic of Guinea, and diabetes care was still rudimentary. It was a hard time, Alhassane recalls. Then something important happened, he says. He met a doctor who told him: You need to respect the rules – or you will die.
“I argued with him. But after that, I knew I had to be strong, not to let my guard down, to respect the diet. Toujours le courage - I decided to fight.”
Alhassane receives care and counsels peers at the Enta Diabetes Clinic, which was strengthened by the WDF project Integrated management of type 1 DM children, WDF09-491