— see also: HISTORY OF THE PROJECT —

The program has research facilities on its own compound, including a house with kitchen facilities, a large parlour, a small office and two bedrooms, each with its own bathroom for resident scientists.

There are three store rooms which provide ample space for lab equipment, cattle-food e.t.c. The supply of water and electricity is reliable.

The main laboratory building has 5 rooms: a parasitology and entomology lab for dissection of Simulium flies and examination of filarial worms, a molecular-biology lab with PCR and electrophoresis, a fly-incubation lab for producing L3, an in-vitro lab with sterile hood for incubation of Onchocerca worms a bureau with internet connection.

A large boucarou was built in 1997 by Mark Broonsvort for accommodation of the local administrator. Originally thatched with grass, his roof was replaced by aluminium in 2010.