What UFAR means to me.

by Dr Arthur Nondo, MPH, COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE, UFAR

Challenges to helping people in UFAR come in many forms! UFAR still persists and touches so many lives!

UFAR is an organization that has given hope to vulnerable people living in inaccessible villages and for whom the support provided by UFAR is a boon, to overcome their health concerns, concerning neglected tropical diseases. UFAR’s mission is to make the DRC a country freed from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

Since 2006, UFAR has brought hope to the poorest, abandoned populations.

UFAR volunteers help, educate and lead. Together, lives are saved.

Now as a partner with the DRC’s Ministry of Health, UFAR has mobilized millions of dollars that have transformed the lives and relieved suffering of millions of people through the free distribution of medication against NTDs.

UFAR has improved the perception of NTDs, from neglected and stigmatizing diseases, to diseases that are actually curable and controllable!

UFAR is there for those in the DRC.

After my 15 years spent working for UFAR, I saw this organization gradually expand to cover today more than 15 provinces out of the 26 in the DRC.

In 2019 alone, over 20 million people received free treatment against at least four debilitating diseases. Yes, Over 20 million people!

Lives are changed and people thrive when their health is prioritized — as it is by UFAR!

UFAR Founder Dr Daniel Shungu has spared no effort to make UFAR an organization with international standards, and whose reputation extends far beyond the borders of the DRC. We would not be where we are without him and our amazing international partners.

To learn more about UFAR, the work we do and the lives you can transform — please visit riverblindness.org. Call 609.902.1805. or find UFAR on Facebook at United Front Against Riverblindness (UFAR) (www.facebook.com/StopNTDs)