West African Children’s Lifeline

Mission
To re-establish a viable educational system and restore the mental and physical health of the members of the rural communities of Liberia in order to create sustainable healthy communities that will maintain peace.

Liberian Rural Medical Mission
The goal of this project is to assess the needs and establish on-going health clinics in remote Liberian communities that are currently isolated from any health services.
The objectives this project will achieve to accomplish that goal are:

July  2009:  Delegate from  West African Children’s Lifeline to Liberia to begin to assess needs and make connections to foster safe passage of supplies and prepare for future trips.

April 2010:  West African Children’s Lifeline in collaboration with Project Helping Hands will sponsor a medical mission to further assess needs, provide basic medical service and begin to establish clinic space for future health services in local villages.

August 2010: West African Children’s Lifeline in collaboration with Project Helping Hands will return to do more advanced medical treatments and establish on-going medical mission work. Continuing education for nursing staff and medical workers will be provided at the level of care for which provisions can be made.

Ongoing long distance support through education and resources will be provided to the best of our abilities throughout the time that we are not present in Liberia to further the work of the communities to establish healthcare for themselves.

The ultimate goal is to establish a rural self sustained clinics and keep them supplied through the mission.

Our plan is to establish clinics that will provide for the basic health care needs and to train local members of the community to continue this work. We would then return to the US to raise funds and collect supplies for return trips to provide advance treatments to help the citizens of these remote villages.

The procedures for determining whether the project goals and objectives have been accomplished are: We will log our progress on our Web site www.wacl.org with photos and slide shows to explain our progress. Staff will keep statistical logs of  patients seen in each clinic. We will monitor long-term outcomes of the initiatives we implement. We will monitor changes in infant and child mortality rates for our area.


We plan to establish five (5) sites with villages consisting of populations of 200 to 500 people, primarily women and children.

In addition to direct care of patients and education of local staff, we will educate the  local people regarding basic health and wellness as well as disease prevention. This education will include HIV/AIDS education.