Helgo Meyer-Hamme

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Helgo Meyer-Hamme (* 1942 in Helmstedt ) is a German doctor.

Career

Meyer-Hamme did his doctorate in 1970 at the University of Hamburg and opened his own practice in Hamburg in 1972, which he ran until January 2008.

Action against child labor

From 1990 onwards he worked several times a week for the Doctors for Developing Countries Committee in Calcutta . In doing so, he repeatedly encountered the problem of child labor and the resulting health consequences. In 1994 he started his own project that takes care of the child laborers in Calcutta. To this end, he founded the aid organization HELGO e. V. (Help for Education and Life Guide Organization) . The association provides families with wages in the form of food and other daily necessities so that the children can attend a public school. Afterwards they get a warm meal and tutoring at the club.

In the beginning, classes in Calcutta took place under the poorest conditions in stairwells or small huts in the districts of Tikiapara , Buxarah and Liluah . In 1997 the first apartment was rented for teaching and a small outpatient clinic was set up in Liluah. The center of the project was created in Tikiapara with the purchase of two more apartments. Two simple boarding schools were founded. In cooperation with the vocational training center of the Don Bosco Order, the children can begin vocational training after leaving school.

Around 200 children are currently being looked after intensively by HELGO, and another 1,800 children from poor families are receiving schooling.

further activities

In Hamburg he has been working as a doctor for the Malteser Migranten Medizin Hamburg project since 2008 , a contact point of the Order of Malta in the Marienkrankenhaus for migrants.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Hamme, Helgo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt