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1. When was the Appeal established?

2. What are the aims and objectives of the Appeal?

3. Have people from the charity visited Kambia or Sierra Leone?

4. What has the charity achieved since it was established?

1) When was the Appeal established? 
The Kambia Hospital Appeal was established in 1992, following a visit by two trustees (Richard Kerr-Wilson and Godfrey Taylor) in January 1992.  In 2006 it became the Kambia Community Appeal.

2) What are the aims and objectives of the Appeal?  
Aims: To improve medical facilities in the Kambia district of Sierra Leone.  
Objectives: To supply medical equipment, exchange of personnel and training.

3) Have people from the charity visited Kambia or Sierra Leone?  
All the trustees have visited developing African countries and 4 of the trustees have visited Kambia at least once. NB The travel costs for all these visits have been personally funded by the trustees.

4) What has the charity achieved since it was established?  

• Training in Kambia for traditional birth attendants, funded through two grants from Comic Relief.
• Training in the U.K. for the anaesthetic nurse in the Department of Anaesthetics at Oxford.
• Training in the U.K. for the eye nurse (Institute of Ophthalmology, London).
• Training in the U.K. for a midwife on the importance of breast feeding (Institute of Child Health).
• Local training in Cheltenham for the theatre sister, purchasing officer, hospital registrar, two other midwives and a staff nurse.
• Visits to Kambia by 25 medical staff from Cheltenham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Canada and South Africa.
• Provision of one Land Rover ambulance (with money raised by Rotary), one general purpose Land Rover, an autoclave to sterilize instruments, a general surgical set, a delivery set, an oxygen concentrator, beds, bed linen, mosquito nets, a water pump, a surgical suction pump and a library of medical books. 
• Drugs were sent regularly through ECHO (Equipment for Charity Hospitals Overseas) to Kambia at the request of the doctor there, and paid for by the Appeal. Also, regular payments were made by the Appeal into an imprest account in Kambia for the use of the medical officer there to purchase equipment for the hospital locally.
• Arranged for Kambia Hospital administrator to attend course for Senior Hospital Managers organised by the International Hospital Federation at the University of Birmingham. This was supported by the Overseas Development Administration.
• Sponsored District Medical Officer on three month course on Reproductive Health in Developing Countries (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine/Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists).
• Improving direct communication with Kambia.   

• Two motorbikes have been provided and the hospital landrover has been repaired.

• In 2006, a container including 2 delivery beds and bicycles arrived in Kambia.