Activities to date
～since 2013～
Since 2013, a total of 23 one-week medical volunteer activities in 14 countries have been conducted in the form of participation in the summer one-week medical volunteer activities of a multinational international medical volunteer organisation in South Korea. Including other medical activities, this number reached 26 times in 15 countries. These are aimed at rural areas and urban slums that are left out of the medical network.
26 medical activities in 15countries
【Countries in which we have worked so far】
Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Japan, Bangladesh.
Rural Area
Urban slum
① Multinational international medical volunteer
We have a worldwide e-mail network of friends we have met through our multinational international medical volunteer activities. We use this network to send out our information and messages to the world and at the same time receive live information from all over the world.
596 people in 21 countries
（English, French, Korean, Japanese）
【Network participant's country of residence】
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Tanzania,Zambia, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, China, South Korea, Japan, USA, UK, France
② Email network of 596 people in 21 countries
A patient with suspected mycetoma in Malawi was referred to Professor Fahal at the Mycetoma Clinical Centre, Khartoum University, Sudan. (May 2021)
Mycetoma is a chronic infection that affects the skin, deep tissues, and bones. It is mainly caused by fungi and bacteria that live in soil and plants, and there is no vaccine or preventive method. It is common in tropical and subtropical regions with short wet and long dry seasons and thorny bushes.
③ Cross-border patient referral (Usage example of ②)
Neglected tropical diseases are epidemics in developing countries that are not sufficiently prevented or treated. We treated one of them, “Buruli ulcer”.
Buruli Ulcer Treatment, Côte d'Ivoire, 2 July 2018
2 July
23 August
■Aug 2016: Benin clinic visit
■Aug 2017: Benin clinic visit: analysis of 413 dermatological ulcer cases
■June 2018: Côte d'Ivoire medical volunteer
■July 2019: Côte d'Ivoire medical volunteer
■Mar 2020: Donation for construction of a clinic in Côte d'Ivoire
(10,000,888 MWK (1,308,310 JPY))
Buruli ulcer is a disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans that affects the skin and sometimes bones. This pathogen is classified in the genus of bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, but it is an environmental organism and the mode of transmission to humans is still unknown. It is concentrated in western and central Africa, including Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and the DRC, but has also been reported in Japan.
④ Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Treatment Project
Jointly with the Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
■November 2019: Myanmar
■Jan 2020: Malawi
⑤ Tuberculosis fieldwork
■Mar 2020: Donation for construction of a clinic in Côte d'Ivoire (10,020,242 MWK (1,308,310 JPY))
■Jun 2020: Support for medical activities at a clinic in Benin (957,365 MWK (125,000 JPY))
⑥ Support for construction of clinics and medical equipment in Africa
■Jan 2021: donation of 20,000 masks to medical facilities in Tokyo, Japan
■Mar 2021: donation of 5,132,971 MWK (5,000 USD)) to Malawi Disaster Management Authority (DoDMA)
⑦ Corona fighting support activities
■Apr 2018: instruction in toothbrushing and first aid resuscitation to primary and secondary school students in the Philippines.
■June 2018: free toothbrush distribution in rural areas of Côte d'Ivoire
■August 2023: distributing free pencils to children in rural areas of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
⑧ Basic health and hygiene education
Building a system to improve local public health in Malawi
Jan 2020:
■Malawi: inspection of TB-related facilities
■Malawi: meeting with ministers of health
■Democratic Republic of the Congo: inspection of community home nursing and Institut National Pilote d'Enseignement en Sciences de Santé (INPESS)
Deputy Ambassador, Minister of Health, First Secretary
IMPESS in the DRC
⑨ Community public health improvement projects in Africa
■Good News Medical Volunteers (South Korea)
■Side by Side International (Japan): medical equipment
■NANODAX (Japan): 3D printer to create artificial limbs in Côte d'Ivoire
■SOIK (Democratic Republic of the Congo): Remote maternal abdominal echography in Malawi
■Trust Oo Co., Ltd. (Myanmar): provision of medical information and services through mobile phone systems
⑩ Cooperation with NPOs and innovative companies
■Reporting on Redwood Japan activities on the e-mail network from a regular basis
■Introducing Africa on the Nagasaki Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio programme: World Report
■Redwood Japan Webinar (10 December 2021)
An Event related to the 8th TICAD : Fighting infectious diseases in the center of Africa
〜Experiences in the Democratic Republic of the Congo against Ebola Virus Disease and COVID-19〜
Speaker: Mr Kazunao Shibata, Chief Representative of JICA in the DRC
Professor Steve Ahuka, Chief of Department of Medical Biology, Medical School of Kinshasa University, DRC
■Keynote lecture at Nagasaki Higashi High School: World Wide Learning ( WWL) (29 June 2022)
■Educational lecture at the 58th Annual Congress of Japan Society of Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine (10 July 2022)
■Report meeting at Christian Church in Nagasaki, Japan
■Report at the Nagasaki Japanese Red Cross branch study meeting
■Keynote lecture at the International Peace Conference for High School Students (28 July 2023).