In 2022 a grant from the Kambia Appeal enabled the refurbishment of Rokai Peripheral Health Unit (PHU). We are delighted to report that the work is now complete. Photos of the newly refurbished staff quarters are attached: Before: We hope to be able to refurbish more PHUs over the next two years.
Welcome to our winter 2022 newsletter! On behalf of the Trustees, thank you so much for your interest and support of the Kambia Appeal. With the merger of the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office into what is now called the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office or FCDO for short, coupled with the […]
We will be holding our AGM this year virtually and hope that you can join in from the comfort of your own home to hear all the latest news. It’s on Tuesday 20th September at 19:30. Please let us know at webmaster@kambia.org.uk if you would like to attend and we will email the link nearer the […]
A network of 68 Heath Centres linked to the Kambia hospital in Sierra Leone provide vital front-line health facilities for local communities around Kambia. However, the physical structure of these Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) is poor and in some even the most basic equipment is absent. In 2019 The Kambia Appeal provided 200 delivery kits and 115 […]
At around 5am on 15th February 2022, a devastating fire broke out in Kambia District in a place called Yeliboya. Yeliboya is an island community, access is by boat along the Great Scarcies river. Around 80 homes were destroyed, along with the main market building. The Kambia Appeal sent food to assist in the short term. The people of Yeliboya have asked […]
Over 2020 and 2021 The Kambia Appeal has continued to concentrate on projects that can be delivered locally in Kambia without the need for input from the UK in terms of manpower. This decision has been justified even more since the arrival of Covid and the worldwide restrictions on travel. To this end we are continuing with […]
We were all devastated to learn that government funding for the next round of the fantastic and long running Health Partnership Scheme has been cancelled. Our friends at THET had no warning that the cuts would be made and are still reeling from the shock. In previous years the HPS funded all our major volunteer programmes in Kambia, […]
The Kambia Appeal is delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees Angela Page Angela qualified as a Doctor from Manchester University in 2013 and will be completing her GP training at the end of January 2020 in Bristol. During GP training, she gained her diploma in sexual and reproductive medicine. Prior to medical training […]
The people of Sierra Leone are used to fighting a killer disease – Ebola ravaged the country only a few years ago, so they know only too well how important it is to be prepared. We have been asked to support the hospital and district with funds for training and to purchase local PPE items […]
Here’s the annual statement from our Chair, Shona Lockyer, as presented at the AGM in January. In recent years, we have been less visible in Kambia, this is partly due to the suspension of activities due to Ebola, and although Sierra Leone was officially declared Ebola free in 2016, we have not re-established ourselves in Kambia to […]
