by admin | Mar 28, 2019 | Dr Margaret
Earlier this year we were contacted by the High Commissioner of Barbuda to ask for our help in rebuilding this Caribbean island. Barbuda was devastated by Hurricane Irma in September 2017 and most of the buildings were completely destroyed. This included the...
by admin | Mar 28, 2019 | Dr Margaret
June 2018 We are all very excited at Jacob’s Well Appeal as we start the maternal and baby unit at Ouagadougou. When we first visited Burkina Faso in 2016 we saw the shell of a hospital which had run out of funds several years previously. It stands beside a...
by admin | Mar 28, 2019 | Dr Margaret
May 2018 Hi everyone! April passed in a blur with wedding plans etc. It seems like ages when we were in Wa in Ghana. We travelled to Wa from Accra via the overnight public bus. They travel in convoys of three with armed guards on the first bus, mainly...
by admin | Mar 28, 2019 | Dr Margaret
How the time flies! Alistair and I went to Ghana in February, returning at the beginning of this month to find that our daughter was going to get married at the end of April – we did have a sneaky idea that this was the plan – which is my only excuse for not writing...
by admin | Mar 28, 2019 | Dr Margaret
December 2017 As we are rapidly approaching Christmas have a thought for our valiant volunteers working in our warehouse. It is very cold at the moment and they are struggling to keep warm. We have plans to site two porta-cabins, one either side of the warehouse, so...
by admin | Mar 28, 2019 | Dr Margaret
Alistair and I, along with Bridget our office manager and Chris, one of our medical volunteers, were delighted to attend a function at the Hull Eye Hospital last week. The event, A Sight to Behold, was part of the Hull City of Culture and was the unveiling of a...
