(Rivista Internazionale - December 1996: Charitable Activities of the French Association - 1/7)

Health

Charitable Activities of the French Association

Jacques Guerrier de Dumast
President of the French Associations of the Order of Malta

Paris. A ward of the specialised home "Saint Jean de Jerusalem".

The Associations health policy is planned and carried out by the Order of Malta's French Hospitaller Works (OHFOM). This policy is implemented both in France and abroad, in emergencies and in permanent works.

Initially very diversified, we are now tending to favour initiatives which visibly bear our emblem and which we manage ourselves.

All this is achieved with volunteers and paid staff who work together in great harmony, for the benefit of Our Lords the Sick.

Our major problem is that of financing; we construct and supply equipment, often with the help of French governmental or European Union bodies, but we find ourselves having to bear our own functioning costs.

However we always have projects under way; for example we are about to provide a home for Alzheimer's patients and a barge on the Seine to help the homeless.

Jacques Guerrier de Dumast




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