Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is a country situated in central Asia and since 1991 an independent state after the former Soviet Union collapsed in the late eighties.

In the earlier days, Uzbekistan was a wealthy country being on the cross roads of the famous and now historical silk route. Because of the many tradesmen travelling from other areas and countries through Uzbekistan it became a melting pot of different cultures. The population has Uzbek, Tajikistan, Tartar and Russian roots and is mixed Islamite and communistic.

There is not much left of the wealth and glory of the past. The old system of the health care is gone and the availability of medicines during the communist period more or less in tact is practically vanished.

The health workers in Uzbekistan are well educated people who sorrowful see that children become ill, cannot be look after and die before their own eyes.

Next to all of this an ecological disaster is developing rapidly in the area of the Aral Lake. Two much water is drained from the lake for the irrigation of the cotton fields and therefore a shortage arises for the farmlands and therefore a shortage of food. Food containing the necessary vitamins, ingredients and nutrition for the people and therefore for the children also.