Continuing his mission — a long-term hospital on the outskirts of Dakar, providing medical and surgical care, and in time a place where Senegalese clinicians train alongside visiting doctors.
In 2017, during a medical mission to the leprosy village of Kalom, Senegal, Dr. Idrissa Faye — a beloved member of the Africa Cries Out medical team — passed away suddenly while serving the people he loved.
“On the way to the leprosy village, he traveled with us. On the way back, he was lying in a box.”
His passing shook us deeply — but it also ignited a mission. From that day, we made a promise: We will continue his work. We will honor his legacy. We will build a hospital in his name.
Africa Cries Out is developing a permanent medical home so that emergency care, surgery, safe childbirth, and everyday healing are no longer hours away. It carries forward the legacy of a beloved physician who gave his life in service.
ACO’s base clinic near Dakar is open every week of the year, and every March a mission team arrives with surgeons. What none of it provides is an operating theatre of our own. Surgery happens in rooms borrowed from other hospitals — when they are free, and only while the team is in the country. A woman who needs a caesarean in June is driven hours to find one.
The land is bought. We begin with the groundwork that secures the site and brings clean water — then build the outpatient centre, and grow toward a full hospital as approvals and funding allow.
The land is bought — at Mbourokh Toucouleur, about an hour from Dakar. We begin with the simple groundwork, small enough that every gift moves it forward.
A ~2,500 m² centre that can run on its own — the priority departments first.
Inpatient care and advanced services, added once approvals are in place.
The land is bought and the work is ready to begin. Right now every gift goes into the groundwork — the wall that secures the campus and the well that brings clean water. Here is exactly what your generosity builds.
✦ The Wall of Thanks: every $200 metre carries a small plaque with the donor's name — together they ring the whole campus in gratitude.
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Major naming gifts carry the honoree's name on the building itself — a lasting tribute, distinct from the wall plaques.
Every gift builds this hospital — brick by brick, and life by life.
Every day, families in this region face medical emergencies with nowhere to turn. When you give, you are providing dignity, safety, and life-saving care to people who have been waiting for hope.