Fidel Strub

Fidel Strub was born in Ouagadougou in May 1991, Burkina Faso, as 7th child of 11. In 1994, Fidel got sick with noma and barely survived. For reconstructive surgeries, he went to Geneva where he met his now mother. As a child and teenager, Fidel had a total of 27 operations. It took Fidel years and psychotherapeutic sessions to accept his appearances. Only around 2014 he started to accept that he had to live with it. 
Fidel learned watchmaking and finished an additional education in commerce and works currently for Swissmedic in Bern. He is fighting alongside with Mulikat to get more attention to Noma and oral health so no other child has to suffer terribly long after having Noma. That is how, in November 2022, Elysium (Noma Survivors Association) was born.