Anika Wentz
On assignment as a health and nursing care worker in Sudan
Name
Anika Wentz
Age
30 years old
Profession
registered health and nursing nurse
Country of operation
Sudan, Nuba Mountains
Duration of mission
6 months
How long have you been employed by Cap Anamur?
My first mission for Cap Anamur started on April 15th, 2021
What does your day-to-day work / area of responsibility look like?
As a nurse for Cap Anamur in Sudan, you ensure the day-to-day smooth running of an ever-growing hospital. You take care of patient care, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, employee issues, and you take care of supplies and medications needed in the day-to-day running of the hospital. We also provide training for our local colleagues. You participate in meetings and a constant exchange with the local Ministry of Health as well as partners on the ground,.
Education and prevention work is also an important part of our work.
What do you like most about your work?
The close cooperation and constant exchange with colleagues from other cultures and different levels of experience.
The intensive and familiar cohesion of the Cap Anamur staff on site.
Reasons why you work for Cap Anamur:
Cap Anamur works with heart and passion at every detail. More than 90% of donations go directly to the projects and you can see what can be achieved with it.
Cap Anamur is run by people who show that courage is the most important thing it takes to help. Cap Anamur showed me, I never want to be not brave again.
Some memories or special moments:
I take with me many special memories and moments. In the positive sense as well as the negative.
Like yesterday, I still see this little girl of 21 days in Maternity in front of me.
She was the first born and therefore a Kaka, her mother (17 years) delivered her at home. Unfortunately, Kaka stopped suckling at 6 days old and her mother had no more milk. So she came to us, 21 days old and only consisting of bones (1,3 kg). No one really believed that this little creature could make it. Our midwives and on-site gynecologist managed to get Kaka to a weight of 2.8 kg over a period of weeks, and even re-stimulated the mother to produce milk with enough fluids and food.
Kaka and her mother were able to be discharged in good health.
It was a special moment every time to see a weight gain on the scale. But not only with Kaka, but with so many other children.
Team members in portrait
Thorsten Kirsch works as a nurse for Cap Anamur in Somaliland. His most important piece of luggage for the trip: His guitar. Being involved in areas where his strengths lie and having an incredible number of opportunities for further training - Thorsten has taken a lot away for himself from his assignment.
Pediatric nurse Simone Ross had great experiences in both Sierra Leone and Uganda. Working in the emergency room, in the infant and pediatric wards, training local staff, organizing materials for the laboratory - the varied and diverse tasks were what she appreciated most about her work in the project.
As project coordinator, Shabbir Ahmed takes care of the health care facilities in Bangladesh with which Cap Anamur has cooperation agreements.
Midwife Sarah Schütz worked for six months in the Central African Republic at our hospital in Bossembélé. There she helped deliver many children including twins and premature babies.
Nurse Nele Grapentin's first mission took her to Uganda, but it is by no means to be her last mission for Cap Anamur. The curiosity of the children, the incredible strength of the Ugandan women and such a diverse country - when Nele Grapentin talks about her mission, she quickly goes into raptures.
Mathias Voss, a nurse, spent more than a year working in our hospital in Sudan. His duties included ward, emergency room or maternal-child clinic rounds and continuing education for local staff members.
Above all, the strong women impressed nurse Karina Busemann in Somaliland. If she had to list all the fond memories she has of her time on the project, it would probably make an entire book. The laughing children will remain in her memory for a long time.
Pediatrician Dorothea Kumpf was in Somalia for Cap Anamur. For six months, the young woman worked in a hospital in Somalialand, an area in the north of the country. Especially the open nature of the population remained in her lasting memory.
The nurse Anika Wentz talks about her 6 month assignment in our hospital in the Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. There, she experienced many things that impress her to this day.
Andreas Tsukalas works as an architect for Cap Anamur in Somaliland. This is already his sixth deployment.
Afghan-born Faisal Haidari works as a project coordinator for Cap Anamur in Afghanistan. Since 2001, the Afghan, of Tajik descent, has been taking care of the progress of Cap Anamur projects in troubled Afghanistan.