DR KATE’S KAMBIA BLOG
Read Dr Kate’s account of her time in Kambia by clicking here Kate is one of our first HPS long-term volunteers, living and working in Kambia for six months.
KAMBIA/GHNHSFT RECRUITMENT EVENT
Posted by James Dowling in Gloucestershire Link on 10 January 2013 WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER IN KAMBIA? The Kambia Appeal and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting volunteers to deliver a new programme of maternal and child health training for Kambia staff in 2013 and 2014. If you are a midwife, paediatric nurse […]
KAMBIA IN PICTURES
Bethany Clarke’s award-winning photo essay documenting maternal healthcare at Kambia hospital can now be seen on the PhotoPhilanthropy website via this link.
IT’S OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY
FOUNDED IN 1992, THIS YEAR MARKS OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORKING IN KAMBIA DISTRICT. Here are a few newspaper cuttings reporting the first visit to Sierra Leone that inspired the creation of The Kambia Appeal. Thanks to the Gloucestershire Echo.
OUR FIRST LONG-TERM VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE IN KAMBIA
Posted by James Dowling in Volunteer Programme on 01 August 2012 Our first volunteers, Dr Kate Wilkinson and Dr Suzanne Howell, arrived safely in Kambia last week. Here they are with Sister Veronica at the Under 5s clinic at the district hospital. If you would like to find out more about becoming a volunteer in […]
VOLUNTEERS READY TO HEAD TO KAMBIA!
New recruits Kate Wilkinson, Natasha Kay, Mary Keniger, Suzanne Howells and Grace Walker Our first in-take of long-term volunteers gathered in London this weekend for a two-day orientation and training workshop. New recruits Kate Wilkinson, Natasha Kay, Mary Keniger, Suzanne Howells and Grace Walker joined our team to prepare for their six-month stay in Kambia. […]
WATCH OUR FILM ABOUT VOLUNTEERING IN KAMBIA
Watch our full-length (20 min version) film that follows health volunteers from the UK in Kambia
KAMBIA APPEAL VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME
Since the very beginning of The Kambia Appeal, our relationship with Kambia has been based on visits to Sierra Leone by medical personnel from the UK. Such visits have provided training for local hospital staff and district health workers, as well as much needed clinical work at the hospital. Midwife Maud Hardy, CHO Mohamed Kamara […]
WATCH OUR NEW FILM ABOUT VOLUNTEERING IN KAMBIA
Watch our new film about volunteering in Kambia
AGM
Posted by James Dowling in General on 24 May 2012 We are holding our AGM on 11th June at 8pm. We will be updating everyone on activities over the past year and our forthcoming plans regarding our IHLFS and HPS grants. There will be a couple of presentations and a screening of our short film […]
