Kedougou Project

FROM CLINIC TO HOSPITAL

This is the first phase of a three part project to build a small scale Hospital. This Clinic is being built 700 km away from the nearest hospital, in a small leper village. We started this project with a promise from the country’s highest officials to provide the adequate staffing to run the facility. Since then we started the project and were donated all the medical equipment to run the facility. The clinic will not only service the needs of the residents of the leper camp but all the nearby villages that are without any medical care.
Every year our missions department brings medicine and professionals to help this much needed area. The need is so great the medical staff helps nearly 500 patients daily in their yearly 2 week stay. In 2014 we had a case of a lady villager who waited 3 months with a rotting foot until we arrived, only because she didn’t have the money to make the 700 km trip to the nearest hospital to amputate her leg. This would never take place if only there was a working clinic for these people to be treated. Your help can make this all come true.

UPDATE (2016)

The 2016 Missions trip was a success , we were able to open up the clinic in Kedougou and will have full time treating a Senegalese Doctor , nurse , and a midwife. We also brought with us 15 bags of medicine and through out the week in different locations we treated between 300 and 400 people a day.

UPDATE (2018)

This Clinic is being built in a small leprosy village, Fatiga, Kedougou province, Senegal, which is 250 km away from the nearest hospital, and 700 km away from Dakar, the capital city. We started this project with a promise from the country’s highest officials to provide the adequate staffing to run the facility. Since then we started the project and donated all the medical equipment to run the facility. The clinic will not only service the needs of the residents of total 9 leprosy villages besides Fatiga, but all the nearby villages that are without any medical care.
Every year our mission department brings $250,000 worth of medicine and professionals to help this much needed area since 2013. The need is so great the medical staff helps nearly 500 patients daily in their yearly one week stay. In 2014 we had a case of a lady villager who waited 3 months with an infected foot until we arrived, only because she didn’t have the money to make the 250 km trip to the nearest hospital to amputate her leg. It was too late for us to do anything, we only gave her fund to go to the hospital for amputation. This would never take place if only there was a working clinic for these people to be treated. Your help can make this all come true.
In 2016, we finally finished the hospital in Fatiga, since then we hired a local physician, and provided a well, a church, and a house for medical missionary team to stay. We go to Fatiga every year for medical and humanitarian mission, we have gone to many different villages in Kedougou province, the remote area with 18,860 census in 2007.