Africa Projects Update

Salut à tout le monde!

I'd like to give a quick update to everyone on the different projects that have been accomplished this last year at the Béré Adventist Hospital as well as projects already started or about to start. Many of you have given anonymously and generously in many ways.

Thank you.

1. Nursing student, Augustin, sent for his first year of nursing school at the evangelical hospital of Bebelem. Costs: $600 tuition, $50/month living expenses, $60 moving allowance, total $1260/year.

2. Nursing student, Enoch, sent to a private nursing school in N'Djamena. Costs: $500 tuition, $50/month room and board, total $1100/year.

3. Medical student, Odei, starting 5th (of 7) year. Costs: living allowance (tuition paid by the state) $50/month, total $600/year.

4. Medical Equipment Repair technician student, Anatole, sent for 1st two months of 2 month per year for 4 year program at Valley View University in Ghana. Costs: tuition free, room and board $400, travel & visas $900.

5. Medical Equipment Repair technician and theology student, Evariste, in same program as Anatole (see #4): Costs: tuition free for Medical Equipment Technician program, room and board $400, tuition + room & board per semester for Theology $1260 (paid by me the last year and a half).

6. Master's in International Development program for our administrator, Andre. Three year program of one month per year in Kenya. He will leave for the first session on August 25. Costs: tuition $2000/year, passport $170, visa (to be obtained in airport, cost unknown but estimated at $20-50), room & board $18/day for 25 days, travel (unknown but estimated at $1200 to $1600 to and from Nairobi). estimated max total costs: $4160/year.

7. Staff housing at the hospital: foundation, walls, roof and plastering $24,000. Plumbing, ceilings, painting, electricity and slab to be done by team from Florida. Costs as yet unknown.

8. Midwife student, Hortance, to start this September in N'Djamena. Since she has her nurses aide degree and has already worked over a year at the hospital she can enter in as a second year student and finish in two years. Costs: Tuition $500/year, living expenses $50/month, total per year
$1100.

9. Nursing student, Samedi, to start this September in N'Djamena at the same school as Enoch (see #2). Samedi has worked 30 years at the Béré Hospital starting out as a janitor and being trained on site without formal education until he has become our finest nurse and in charge of the operating theater. He's the one who does emergency surgery during my absence and did over 70 surgeries without complications during my vacation in March and April. We feel it is high time to get him some formal education. Costs: tuition $500/year, living expenses $100/month, total per year $1700.

Again, we thank you for your encouraging words that you never cease to send, as well as your generosity in allowing us to build for the future so the Béré Adventist Hospital can continue to function in this neglected and abandoned corner of the world to bring hope and healing to those who are so often discouraged and minimized.

Merci beaucoup! Shukran katir! Merci beja!

James & Sarah