Health and Nutrition

Due to our ecological and ethical sense of responsibility our SALEM institutions are all vegetarian. We want to demonstrate that vegetarian nutrition is not only healthy but also diverse and delicious. However, we are also accepting of the non-vegetarian way of life.

In many social projects our commitment extends to our local communities also. SALEM-Uganda has, since it was founded in 1981, provided both health and social welfare services. There is a 65 bed health centre with maternity, paediatric and adult wards, supported by a medical laboratory and an operating theatre. Community outreach is an important part of promoting good health and over 60 community health workers and traditional birth attendants, trained by SALEM and supervised by trained staff work, on a voluntary basis in the surrounding villages.

The health centre in Togo, also supported by SALEM, guarantees basic medical care for 42,000 people as the treatments are offered either free or at a very reasonable price.