3. The Importance of Healthcare
● Healthcare is important, without it, we will not be able
to treat and diagnose illnesses.
● Healthcare is a basic necessity for EVERYONE.
● Everyone is entitled with the rights to access basic
healthcare.
4. World Health Day
● The World Health Day is a global health awareness day
celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship
of the World Health Organization.
● Marks WHO's founding, and is seen as an opportunity
by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a
subject of major importance to global health each year.
6. World Health Organization - WHO
Background Information:
● WHO began when the Constitution came into force on 7
April 1948.
● They currently have more than 7000 people working in
150 country offices, in 6 regional offices at the
headquarters in Geneva.
7. World Health Organization - WHO
What they do:
● Their primary role is to direct and coordinate
international health within the United Nations’ system.
Main Areas of work:
● Health systems, Promoting health through the life-
course, corporate services as well as non-
communicable and communicable diseases.
9. ● He is an Ivorian Professional Football player,
who is best known for his career at Chelsea
Football Club.
● He has also been named African Footballer
of the Year twice, in 2006 and 2009.
● He has earned worldwide acclaim as a
professional soccer player and champion for
peace in his native Ivory Coast.
Who is Didier Drogba?
10. The Didier Drogba Foundation
Background Information:
● Created in 2007, the Didier Drogba Foundation aims
to provide financial and material support in both health
and education to the African people.
11. The Didier Drogba Foundation
Motivations:
● Most African children are still left out and almost
forgotten on the road to progress, especially when we
talk about health and education.
● Didier wanted to change things for the better, thus he
set up the foundation to develop more and more
structures, to give people basic healthcare and
education.
12. The Didier Drogba Foundation
What they do:
● Provided help and funds for structures such as the Red
Cross in Abidjan.
Aims & Goals:
● They aim to build a hospital in Abidjan, a project that is
fully supported by the foundation.
13. The Didier Drogba Foundation
The Didier Drogba Foundation Charity Ball:
● Held on November 21 in London.
● Its main goal was to raise funds in order to build a
hospital in Abidjan.
● Raised approximately 500 000 pounds to build the
hospital in Abidjan.
14. The Didier Drogba Foundation
Target audience:
● The organization is targeted at people who wants to
give back to society, and do their part to solve the issue
of poor healthcare in africa.
● The organization also hopes to reach out to the people
to kindly donate and to give help in
order to change things for the better.