Supporting a Leprosy and Rehabilitation Centre
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Project location: LIBERIA, Ganta
Project start date: July 2010 -
Project end date: December 2010
Project number: 2010-12
Beneficiary: Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the Republic of Liberia
Lack of water, total lack of the sewer system in the villages, lack of wells disinfection apparatuses contribute dramatically to enlarge the dimension of the problem. In such a frame, the Embassy is going to take action as per the following outlined point.
The sisters drew up a list of priorities, and a grant has been awarded by the Nando Peretti Foundation, to achieve the following goal:
2) purchase of n. 50 hospital beds, relevant sheets, pillows and mattresses;
3) purchase of n. 500 pcs. Vaseline ointment for leprosy patients skin care and n. 500 pcs of antiseptic soaps (bathing and washing);
4) renovation of the roof of the male ward, painting of the walls, restoring of the doors and windows;
6) 13 complete farming tools sets (including hoes, spades, pickaxes, barrows, etc.) for the farmers working inside the Rehab;
7) purchase of 180 bags of rice (which represent the basic quantity to feed regularly the inmates for 6 months).
The previous Leprosy Control Programme was activated in Liberia by the Sovereign Order of Malta in the years 1973 - 1977, and successively interrupted because of the two civil wars which devastated the Country. The nowadays strong resurgence of the disease imposes to restart the Programme beginning just from the Leprosy Rehab Center in Ganta. Afterwards, the Embassy will take care to restore the Health Centers in the Bong, Nimba and Maryland counties.