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Congo missions organizer grateful for support



[An open letter to] Friends and Family:
I will like to thank everyone who has been supporting us in prayers and financials to make this happen.
It has been three years since the time St. Joseph Community Hospital of boma open its doors and many people have been helped. Especially with our free maternity service to overcome the existing shameful hospital practice to detain poor woman and new babies for days, months and years until they pay the maternity cost. This is terrible for the newborn baby to be jailed on the first birthday because his or her parents are poor.
Together we can change it by training much needed community doctors, nurses and midwifes from remote villages and deploy them back to serve in their own community for two years in exchange for the scholarship.
St. Joseph Community Hospital now is officially a teaching hospital to train health care workforce.
The Gayle GALAN Christian School of Medicine and Health is being built in Boma. The first phase of the school is up and running under the International Christian University of Congo. The second phase [is] to build more classrooms, dormitories, medical facilities and office, medical library, teachers’ houses and expand satellite clinics across the Congo. These men and women are working with experienced doctors, nurses and midwifes at St. Joseph Community Hospital for hands-on experience.
Here’s how you can help: $600 will help someone to become community nurse or midwife; $120 will cover the cost of delivering a child; $1,200 will sponsor a motorcycle to help deploy midwifes, nurses and doctors to those in need, $2,000 will help build a classroom for the second phase of the school, [with the] sponsor’s name on the door; $5,000 will help build a satellite clinic in remote [area] to serve 20 to 50 villages, with the clinic named after the sponsor or any name of loving memory of family and friends. Also, you can sponsor a workshop for life skills training for women to help sustain both the program and household income, from food process, to packaging and to marketing the finished product such as a soap making business, bread making business, sewing, etc.
All the donations are tax deductible and payable to: Educate the Congo Project Inc., P.O. Box 116, Munroe Falls OH 44262; or call 330-814-4358 or email gaspardnzita@aol.com

Gaspard Nzita, Green