Women for Women of Sierra Leone

WWSL News

June 2014

Women for Women of Sierra Leone Elementary School Children in Yele, Sierra Leone.

2013 End-of-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

WWSL volunteers from the U.S. and U.K. at various WWSL project sites in Makeni and Yele, Sierra Leone.

2013 Mid-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

WWSL volunteers from the U.S. and U.K. at various WWSL project sites in Makeni and Yele, Sierra Leone.

2012 Mid-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

Children from the WWSL Elementary School in Yele, Sierra Leone, pose on Saturday, June 9, 2012. We also visited the WWSL Medical Site in Yele during our 2012 Mid-Year trip.

2011 Mid-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

Unedited photos of our 2011 humanitarian projects in Sierra Leone, which ended on July 2. At left, Dr. Albert George Thomas conducting his rounds.

2010 End-of-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

(From left to right) A WWSL U.S. healthcare adult practitioner with two WWSL pre-med student volunteers, Sia Sam-Sumana and Rayana Johnson from Union College in Schenectady, and a WWSL U.S. volunteer medical assistant, in front of the WWSL Medical Center.

2010 Mid-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

WWSL volunteers from the U.S. and U.K. at various WWSL project sites in Makeni and Yele, Sierra Leone.

2009 End-of-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

WWSL volunteers from the U.S. and U.K. at various WWSL project sites in Makeni and Yele, Sierra Leone.

2009 Mid-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

WWSL June 2009 volunteer general surgeon (right) and WWSL local volunteer in the operating room at WWSL Dr. Muriel Petioni Medical Center, Yele.

2008 End-of-Year Humanitarian Volunteer Mission

Sierra Leone’s national chairman for war-wounded victims and amputees waits at the WWSL Clinic for War-Wounded Victims and Amputees in Makeni (for those whose limbs were illegally amputated during the Blood Diamond War which plagued Sierra Leone for over 10 years).

Other Recent Events

This U.S. volunteer (left) is part of the 2006 Midwifery Project held in Yele, Gbonkolenken Chiefdom, Northern Province. She has worked in Kassarie, in Kambia District, Sierra Leone when she was a member of the Peace Corp. in the 1980s.

Connaught Hospital Gets ECHO Cardiogram Machine

By Ben Samuel Turay, Concord Times.
See also Cotton Tree News (PDF).

Women for Women of Sierra Leone, a non-governmental organization based in the United States, donated an ECHO cardiology machine to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation for use at Connaught Hospital.

Making the presentation on behalf of her organization, Dr. Georgiana Johnson lauded the efforts of the chief cardiologist at Harlem Hospital Center, Dr. Icilma Fergus, for donating the machine.

Thomas McIntyre, general surgeon and surgical team leader from New York, described the system as an ultrasound that gives a dimension of the functions of the heart, size and all information that would assist a cardiologist for positive use.

Dr. Soccoh Kabia, minister of health and sanitation, described the gesture as an invaluable treasure for Connaught Hospital. He said the initiative from WWSL shows patriotism and demonstrates an indication for a standard medical care in Sierra Leone.

Dr. Kabia said the organization’s surgical unit was established at Yele in Tonkolili district and expressed gratitude to the donor.

Connuaght Hospital’s care manager and cardiac specialist, Rev. Dr. Olu Black, described the gesture as “a dream come true” to revolutionize cardiac diagnostic in Sierra Leone.