Healing Hands Holiday Appeal 2008.wmv

The Village of Mandinary, the Gambia, West Africa, receives its health care - if it can be called that - via a health post which the villagers had to build themselves and which functions without electricity or running water. The staff must carry every bucket of water needed for patient care from a nearby well. What little medication there is, is used up in days. And the one fact that has remained constant is the suffering of the villagers. "Health is our problem, day and night," the elders of the village wrote to us when they thanked us for our willingness to take over their health post, while they implored us to "please, come very soon." Every day, people are dying from absolutely treatable diseases, but the villagers are looking with hope towards the future, because they believe that we can help them. Please, help us help them. We need donations for medications, supplies and even for the meager wages it takes to keep a nurse at the Mandinary Health Post. Whatever you can spare is welcome and needed and will not be wasted. Most Gambians do not even make $2 a day; so a donation of even $10 represents a week's wages in Gambian terms. And it could do so much good. In this season of love and giving, please, let's remember some of our neighbors in the Gambia who are looking to us for a solution which is so easy for us to provide. We just have to want to get involved and remember that they are just like us and that their lives are just as important. Thank you so much. We wish you a year filled with happiness and success and we thank you for your generosity. Healing Hands of Gambia

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Gambian dictator holds Gambians ranson, .so call bush doctor. I suspect that he does human sacrifice too. What a curse for that Beautiful country. Stoooop p encouraging him Wake Up Wake Up Gambia. I hope he wont steal your good work to enrich him as usual.