Annemarie Weseloh

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Annemarie Weseloh

Annemarie Weseloh (born January 21, 1928 in Fintel ) is a deaconess of the Hermannsburg Mission . She has been working as a nurse and midwife in Ethiopia since 1958 .

Life

As the oldest of eight farmer's children , Annemarie Weseloh attended elementary school in Fintel. Then she helped on the farm and worked for three years in the household of the director of the Hermannsburg Mission. On September 3, 1951, she entered the Rotenburg mother house and learned nursing . After taking the exam in 1955, she was trained as a midwife in the gynecological clinic of the University Hospital in Tübingen . In Tübingen she also completed a three-month course in tropical medicine at the German Institute for Medical Mission .

When Haile Selassie was still ruling, she flew to Ethiopia for the first time on July 26, 1958 . Until 1993 she worked for the Hermannsburg Mission in Dira, Dapo-Gatcho and Challia. She remained loyal to the country and her work when Mengistu Haile Mariam established his socialist military dictatorship in 1974 . When it ended with the Ethiopian Civil War in 1991 , AIDS became the country's new affliction. After her retirement in 1993, Annemarie Weseloh was asked to help set up the Organization for Social Services for Aids (OSSA) in Nekemte . She was the first to speak openly about the sexual context of the disease in church parishes and village meetings. The OSSA has successfully contributed to lowering the AIDS infection rate in Ethiopia and extending life expectancy. It offers help in the social and medical fields to infected people, sick people and relatives. She has arranged almost 200 sponsorships for orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS. Even after the official end of her work in 2001, Annemarie Weseloh is committed to the OSSA. In the cooler months of almost every year she travels to Nekemte - at the age of 84 today. Since 2009 she has been accompanying Helga Zielke , a retired nurse from the professional association accident hospital in Hamburg .

The deaconess mother house and doctors from the Rotenburger Diakonieklinikum support the work in Nekemte.

literature

  • Ernst Bauerochse: Your destination was Oromoland. The beginnings of the Hermannsburg Mission in Ethiopia . Münster (Westphalia) 2006, online version (GoogleBooks)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b personal communication (January 16, 2012)
  2. ↑ Rotenburger Rundschau (2001)
  3. ↑ Rotenburger Rundschau (2011)
  4. ^ Diakonie-Krankenhaus Rotenburg / Wümme
personal data
SURNAME Weseloh, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaconess and development worker
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Fintel