Hannah Lewis and Shaza Dous
Hannah Lewis and Shaza Dous were students at Sheffield University. In 2018 they became the fourth set of Masters students to take up their Masters project placements at the University of Makeni (UNIMAK) in Sierra Leone. Hannah was studying for an MSc in Environmental Change and International Development, and Shaza for an MA in Intercultural Communications and International Development. Once again
October 2018 shipment arrives at Holy Spirit Hospital.
Inter Care is a registered UK charity that sends high quality medical aid to rural health units in sub-Saharan Africa. We first contacted them at the end of 2016 when Holy Spirit Hospital in Makeni had suffered a serious fire that destroyed several buildings including the pharmacy store and all their drugs. Inter Care were very quick to step in and send a large amount of medicines and medical
Fr Joe Turay, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Makeni, with Jon Kay outside Sheffield station
We were very pleased to welcome some of our Sierra Leone partners to Sheffield in 2018.
In May our good friend Fr Joe Turay, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Makeni (UNIMAK), was attending a conference at Cambridge University. While in the UK he made time to come up to Sheffield to meet the Makeni Trust Fund trustees, the people of Mother of God parish, who have been regular supporters for
This was the eighth year of operation of our charity. For Sierra Leone and its West African neighbours it has been a time of further recovery from the devastating impact of the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic of 2014. The Makeni Trust Fund has been pleased to support our partners in Sierra Leone at this time and we are grateful for the generous response of our funders.
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We are very grateful to David Paling and Teresa Kay who successfully completed the Sheffield Half Marathon on 10th April and raised a fantastic £631.88 in sponsorship money. Their goal was a well borehole for the new Maternity Ward at Holy Spirit Hospital, which has been requested by the hospital director, Dr Patrick Turay.
The Sheffield Half Marathon boasts one of the most scenic routes
Sierra Leone has very poor Maternal Health: in the UK there were 9 Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015, whereas in Sierra Leone there were 1360.
To address this problem our partner Holy Spirit Hospital in Makeni opened a new Maternity Ward towards the end of 2016. The Makeni Trust Fund funded developments to significantly improve the water supply for the hospital in 2010, and we
Sheffield University crest
We were pleased to hear that two Sheffield University Masters students would like to do placements with the University of Makeni in June-July 2017. Helena has already been volunteering with work for UNIMAK in Sheffield. She would like to focus her research in Sierra Leone on local strategies to alleviate poverty. The other student, Eri, would like to focus on exploring the link between environmental
Our partner Holy Spirit Hospital suffered a disastrous fire at the end of last year. No-one was hurt, but as well as serious damage to buildings, the fire destroyed all of its drugs. As soon as we heard about it we sought help from other UK charities on our partners behalf. We are delighted that InterCare (http://intercare.org.uk/), who specialise in providing
