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Helping others makes you happy! Dear friends and supporters, A newsletter was almost ready to be sent out in March when the coronavirus became a pressing issue. We hesitated to send it. But now we know there is a ‘new normal’; life goes on – …

Helping others makes you happy! Dear friends and supporters, Christmas – New Year’s Eve 2006: My first Christmas here in Madagascar, away from my home in Germany, and my first Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere will remain in my memory forever. Hearing ‘Silent Night’ at …

Helping others makes you happy! Dear friends and supporters, thank you very much for the many enquiries and words of encouragement we received following the June newsletter. I think it’s exciting to now read what has become of the families and their medical histories! Every …

Helping others makes you happy! [Left-hand image] The infirmary as I took it over in 2009. [Right-hand image] Including the extension: the MHM Hospital with its training centre. The saying comes from a postcard I received 25 years ago, which now hangs in my kitchen. …

Our partner organisation ‘Mobile Hilfe Madagaskar’ (

In November and December this year, Dr Englisch, a member of Tulisa’s Executive Board, visited two interesting and successful health projects for children and families in Caracas and Santiago de Chile as part of a business trip to discuss a partnership with Tulisa. Source: Fundación …

Dear Tulisa supporters! We have received the following three updates from our partner organisation in Madagascar regarding your donations: 1. Ectopic pregnancy Tragically, our help arrived too late for Georgette due to the long journey ‘into the bush’. She sadly passed away during childbirth. However, …

Good news from “The Nest”: Do you remember Nuhu? The severely malnourished 12-year-old boy was admitted as an emergency case last November by our partner organisation, THE NEST orphanage, in Nairobi. Nuhu could not speak properly; he had initially been brought in by the youth …

In the penultimate week of June, our board member Dr Dirk Englisch was on a business trip to Honduras in Central America. Whilst there, he visited, amongst other places, an orphanage in the capital, Tegucigalpa: the Casa Niños Rosa Maria Honduras e.V. (www.kinderhaus-honduras.de). Ms Rosemarie …

Dear friends and donors of Tulisa, Time and again, we find that patients whose urgent need for treatment we had already identified suddenly cannot be traced. There are many reasons for this: an unexpected move, family conflicts, no telephone (anymore)… but unfortunately, in most cases, …