AN EASY WAY TO GIVE TO OPERATION CLASSROOM

You can now give to Operaton Classroom by using a credit card.  On the right of the home page you can click "secure donations online" and make your donation.

 

 

INTERESTED IN UNITED METHODIST EDUCATION IN LIBERIA?  If your answer is YES, I want to invite you to an EDUCATION SUMMIT ON LIBERIA,  Monday, June 16 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Write ocmission@frontiernet.net for more details. Dr. Anthony Dioh, the new Education Secretary  and Rev. Herbert Zigbuo, Vocational Director for the United Methodist Church will be leading us in summit.

Yes, We Have Chalk

Operation Classroom has recently been able to purchase over 24,000 boxes of chalk. If you have purchased chalk, we can use it. If not, you can buy chalk from us for 30 cents a box.

 

Operation Classroom is working to get a computer class opened at  Albert Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone by fall.  Computers are needed. However, they should be a Pentium 3 or later with Windows xp. We cannot use computers older than Pentium 3. 

2008 General Ingathering Needs

You can check out the needs that we have beyond sending supplies to the Operation Classroom warehouse. Click here to view the 2008 General Ingathering document.

Important Note on Medication Donations

We are unable to accept medications that do not have a shelf life of at least 4 months. Please check the date before you pack any medications/drugs. Thank you.

Copies of 1964-65 Book of Worship Needed

When Joe and Carolyn Wagner were iin Sierra Leone recently, they had many requests for the 1964-65 book of worship. If you have a copy you are not using and would like to pass it on to a pastor in Sierra Leone, you can send it to the Operation Classroom, PO Box 246, Colfax, IN 46035 or 8326N700W, Thorntown, Indiana 46071.

2009 Workteams

We are now scheduling teams for 2009. If you are intetested in being a member of a medical, construction, or teaching team in 2009, please contact our office at ocmission@frontiernet.net.

Trip report from West Africa visit

The Wagners just completed a visit to each of the Operation Classroom schools and requested each school to complete a 4 year evaluation of their school. Enrollment has gone through the roof on most of the schools. The country of Sierra Leone is facing rising prices (about 15 to 20% over last year. This puts a real burden on people just live, let along paying school fees. Scolarships are still needed for many of our schools. You sned your $75 to the OC office and you will receive a picture and a bio of the student.

We have been working setting up workteams for this year. If you want more information contact the OC office. We ill be meeting with the Kissy staff and reviewing the medical program. A report on the hospital and the schools will be avaialle on our website before the end of the month.

Trip Report: Kissy Strategy Meeting

On Thursday February 9, there was a Kissy Strategy meeting at the UM Office in Freetown. Representatives from GBGM, the hospital, the medical board, the church and Operation Classroom/Doctor were in attendance. The purpose of the meeting was to set a common vision of the UM Kissy General Hospital should be. After much discussion the decision was made to pursue funding for the construction of a MOTHER-CHILD BLOCK, which would house the maternity and child ward and the nutrition unit. It would only center on these three areas with the possibility of a third floor, which would be for conference rooms for the other mother-child programs. Only programs related to the mother-child program will be included in this building.

The goal is, if funding is available, to begin construction in 2010. Operation Classroom/Doctor was asked and agreed to develop a master plan and preliminary plans for the Mother-Child Block by May 1, 2008. Included in the plan will be the development of a transitional plan to care for the programs that will be displaced by the construction. All plans will be reviewed and approved by the medical board of the conference.