La Chaîne de l'espoir (CDE)

La Chaîne de l’Espoir is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 1994. Its mission is to strengthen health systems to give everyone, especially children, the same chances of survival and development.

We work in 28 countries with a comprehensive approach, focusing on children, mothers and disadvantaged communities:

• Prevention and screening from an early age, particularly through school health programs.

• Care and surgery, to meet the most urgent needs of children and their mothers.

• Strengthening the medical and surgical workforce thanks to our international network of experts.

• Construction and equipment of hospital structures adapted to local needs.

La Chaîne de l’Espoir has been working in Ukraine since march 2022. The goal of La Chaîne de l’Espoir is to increase access to quality, medical and surgical care for Ukrainian population and wounded people. To date, La Chaîne de l’Espoir has supported 12 hospitals in the most affected oblasts (Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Lviv, Kyiv), providing 28 tons of traumatology kits, oral and injectable medications, operating room material and biomedical equipment. With its partner Mehad (ex UOSSM-Fr), La Chaîne de l’Espoir has provided training of health providers from all over the country in war medicine techniques (emergency ultrasound, surgery, psycho-trauma).