Friday, 28 November 2008
Last day for surgery
Anna & The President Part II
The Presient arrives and shakes hand with Ken, our MD...
The President passes the flowers to her aid...
...and waves at Africa Mercy crew standing on Deck 7 (including Libby & me). Olly
A baby with no face
Mary's Meals
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Anna and the President
Marcel Eveleens
Cool Liberian house
Tenegar Town Celebrates Dedication Of New Clinic As Beacon Of Hope
Liberia’s Thanksgiving for Mercy Ships
Monrovia Gets Additional Ten 75-Seater Transport Buses
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Noah update
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Noah needs prayer
Ward Cleaning
I can see my face in that!
Monrovia's rainfall statistics
World Toilet Day?
A Liberian toilet. No wonder people prefer to use the bush or the beach.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Emmanuel
Sunday, 16 November 2008
4 weeks from now...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Mercy Ships ensures that Liberian technicians can "fix it"
Monrovia, Liberia November 12, 2008 - One of the biggest challenges to providing increased access to health care for Liberia's citizens is the availability of functional medical equipment. Although Liberia is in the process of rebuilding, much of the country's infrastructure is still in ruins, including many health care facilities. Medical and support personnel are severely lacking. Many who lived in the country before the war were displaced and most have not returned. In addition, donor organizations have supplied new or used medical equipment, but often no one is trained to repair or install it. Add the difficulty in getting spare parts, separation of service manuals from equipment and instability of a power supply that causes frequent equipment failure, and you have an African hospital's biggest headache. In an effort to address this issue and at the request of the Liberian Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, six Liberian hospital technicians have recently completed Mercy Ships' first Mentoring Biomedical Technicians program. The technicians were chosen by five of the nation's hospitals and equipped with additional skills to install, maintain, and repair various complex medical equipment. The training will ensure that donations of essential equipment will be well used when the ship departs in December. Developed and led by Africa Mercy crew member Carlos Amaral of Brazil who recently completed his PhD in biomedical engineering in Germany, the program ran from March through October. It included courses in computer training, electricity, electronics and medical equipment. Funding was provided by German foundation PRANA-Stiftung and matched by Mercy Ships volunteer hours. For full article click here.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
UN troops in Liberia step up patrols on Ivory Coast border
MONROVIA, Nov 7, 2008 (AFP) - UN peacekeeping troops in Liberia said Friday that they have stepped up patrols on the border with Ivory Coast after media reports of rebel incursions. "As a precaution we have increased our vigilance to intensive foot patrol, dismounted patrol and air patrol in the area," the new commander of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Lieutenant General Abu Tayeb Muhammad Zahirul Alam told AFP. A newspaper reported in late October that Liberian rebels who want to overthrow the government, had crossed into the country from Ivory Coast and caused unrest. The reports did not specify who the rebels were. Many Liberians are still traumatized by the 14 year civil war up to 2003 which left more than 250,000 people dead. That war started when rebels led by Charles Taylor crossed into Liberia from Ivory Coast. UNMIL took the reports and the population's concern seriously, Alam said, but had not yet found "anything substantial" to back up the reports. UNMIL maintains security in Liberia. Set up in 2003, it was for several years was the largest UN force in Africa with more than 13,000 peacekeepers. Last year the UN started reducing troop numbers as disarmament was completed and security improved. There are now about 11,000 peacekeepers and it will be further reduced to 10,000 next year, the commander said. The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has 16,000 soldiers while the missions in Ivory Coast and Darfur have about 8,000 peacekeepers each. For original article click here.
Utterly Insane
* the world's second most evil person after Osama Bin Laden, in my opinion!
** many of whom are also guilty of war crimes and theft of Liberian funds on a massive scale, and are terrified of eventual prosecution also.