UMC HEALTH AND MATERNITY CENTER KISSY FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE

A Vehicle to go to the displaced camps and other villages to carry our plan.  We anticipate purchasing a Jeep in Indiana and shipping it to Freetown.  We need 150 shares at $100 per share. Send your $100 to Operation Classroom, Vehicle Fund, Operation Doctor, PO BOx 277, Colfax, IN 46035

Check the medial and Kissy Eye Clinic for other medical program.

Dr. Dennis Marke has been the chief medical officer of the UMC Health and Maternity Center in Kissy Freetown, Sierra Leone, since January 1, 1997.

This clinic was established in 1947 by the Sierra Leone Annual Conference, to serve the Kissy area (an eastern area of Freetown which is the most populous of the eight wards of greater Freetown). At that time there was no general hospital and only a few private clinics.

The clinic has primarily served the women and children of the area with obstetrics facilities and care, and maternal and infant welfare services.

Over the years, because of financial constraints, the Sierra Leone Annual Conference has not been able to maintain the clinic's quality to meet the medical needs of the area.

STATISTICS OF THE CLINIC

Period	Male	Female	Total	Under 5	Prenatal	Admitted	Total	Births
3/24 to 5/31			366	153	234		753	28
June	171	384	555	163	236	44	998	24
July	156	356	512	172	222	56	962	19

Oct-9 9
	Under 5	under 5	child	child	Adul t	Adult	Admission	ANC	Total
	Male	Femal e	Male	Femal e	Mal e	Fema le		Female
New	48	31	15	28	84	163	38	37	444
Retur n	25	28	21	16	72	329	0	243	734
Total	73	59	36	44	156	492	38	280	1178

OPERATION CLASSROOM assists Kissy Clinic to develop new programs to assist the suffering in Sierra Leone

New Nutrition Program to assist the suffering people of Sierra Leone.

Because of the war there is a lot of malnutrition in Sierra Leone. The clinic has started a nutrition program for children, mothers and pregnant women. The program provides training in making high protein meals and also offers meals to the children, mothers and pregnant women. The are presently serving 79 children and over 280 pregnant and nursing women. The program was planned for 30 in each group. Perhaps the pictures can tell the story the best.

Follow up home visitation for the discharged clients were done in October. Mothers wer found to be preparing the high protein bennimix at home for their children.

The projected cost for this program is $3,000 per month. Advance number 012602-4RA Kissy Urban and Maternity Center/Malnutrition and Outreach Program. Please inform the OC office if you are supporting this program. ocmission@compuserve.com

Operation Classroom

Joseph & Carolyn Wagner, General Directors

PO Box 277

Colfax, IN 46035

Phone: 765.324.2556 Fax: 765.324.2686

ocmission@compuserve.com

ccwagner@hotmail.com