UPDATE – November 25, 2009 Dear Friends and Supporters, Our last trip to Sierra Leone reaffirms our mission. Despite our primary goal of taking care of the Obstetrical Fistula Patients we saw a tremendous number of men, women and children that came to the hospital very late in their illnesses and died. There were numerous […]
2009 – August
WEST AFRICA FISTULA FOUNDATION UPDATE – August 18, 2009 Dear Friends and Supporters, We had an extremely successful trip this last month to Sierra Leone. This trip had a very unique and exciting meaning to it. I was accompanied by two young and aspiring students from the United States, that plan on becoming doctors. Preston […]
2009 – January
WEST AFRICA FISTULA FOUNDATION UPDATE – January 7, 2009 Dear Friends and Supporters, I am happy to tell you we have just completed another trip to Sierra Leone. As you are aware we have moved our program to Bo, Sierra Leone which is up country so we can be closer to the people that need […]
2008 – October
WEST AFRICA FISTULA FOUNDATION UPDATE – OCTOBER 2008 Dear Friends and Supporters, We are very pleased to report on our last trip to Sierra Leone the addition of more medical services to the people of Sierra Leone. In addition to the Fistula project we feel the need to address the deplorable situation of Maternal Mortality […]
2008 – March
WEST AFRICA FISTULA FOUNDATION UPDATE – March 25, 2008 Dear Friends, I have just returned from Sierra Leone and would like to give you an update. This is my first trip to Sierra Leone after Mariama’s death and since the newly elected officials have taken office. I found Sierra Leone to be as beautiful and […]
2008 – January
WEST AFRICA FISTULA FOUNDATION UPDATE – January 29, 2008 Dear Friends, Mariama Sesay, the 27 y/o Sierra Leonean lady with terminal cervical cancer passed away Sunday morning January 27, 2008 in Denison, Texas. As many of you know Mariama was first diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer in August of 2006 in Sierra Leone and was […]