These true nursing homes are located close to hospital structures sponsored or built by La Chaîne de l’Espoir. They offer medical and social care to indigent children accompanied by a relative, who have often covered long distances to get medical and surgical treatment. The sick child and its parent stay on site from the preoperative period to convalescence. They are entitled to free care and transportation from their home, all those expenses being covered by La Chaîne de l’Espoir.

It is more than a shelter, as the children and their relatives also receive assistance and social follow-up to promote the quick recovery of the child back home.

Children’s Pavilions are also living and learning places: the children and their parent (usually the mother) are invited to share play and educational activities and participate in workshops on health education, hygiene and nutrition. 

A significant number of our young patients come from rural areas, far from hospitals and modern medical facilities. Without the financial resources for medical expenses, transportation and accommodation in the area, families often resolve to forego treatment.

To overcome the financial and geographical barriers, La Chaîne de l’Espoir has been building Children’s Pavilions near local hospitals to welcome patients and their families prior to surgery and through recovery. Through these infrastructures, we are able to offer appropriate and high-quality medical treatment for the most vulnerable children free of charge. The pavilions have been created to treat and guide the young patients on their journey to a full recovery, regardless of their social, ethnical, backgrounds, their place of residence or their pathologies.

La Chaîne de l’Espoir built 5 Children’s Pavilions: in Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Afghanistan (Kabul), Mozambique (Maputo), Vietnam (Hô Chi Minh) and Senegal (Dakar).

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La Chaîne de l’Espoir covers all the transportation and accommodation costs of the children and accompanying persons, the medical and surgical costs, the staff costs and the operational costs of the Children’s Pavilion.

For example, the total cost for a child operated on is as follows:

• 3,000 euros for a cardiac pathology.
• between 600 euros and 1,500 euros for orthopaedic, reconstructive or visceral surgery.

Newly created and hosted by the Fondation pour l’Enfance, the Alain Deloche Foundation’s mission is to finance the building and functioning of the Children’s Pavilions and the operations of the children.

The Fondation Alain Deloche is entitled to receive wealth tax (ISF) deductible donations.

To support the Children’s Pavilions of La Chaîne de l’Espoir and the young patients who will be staying there, you may address your donations:

• By cheque payable to La Fondation pour l’Enfance sent by mail to La Chaîne de l’Espoir – à l’attention de Fabienne Ritter – 8, rue Maria Helena Vieira da Silva – CS 11417 - 75993 Cedex 14.
• On line on the Fondation pour l'Enfance website - quoting: Fondation Alain Deloche (the corresponding tax receipt will be addressed by La Fondation pour l’Enfance).

Donation department contact person: Fabienne Ritter : + 33 1 44 12 66 49 - donateurs@chainedelespoir.org