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Nurses for the Nations Reaches out to the Heart of Liberia, West Africa

Liberia is a country in Sub Sahara West Africa emerging from a decade of civil war. The conflict lasted for a period of almost thirteen years and left the country in a state of demobilization. Since the end of the conflict in 2003, Liberia is attempting to rebuild there health facilities, increase their scarce healthcare workforce and improve badly weakened infrastructures from ravages of a decade of fighting. Presently, Liberia has 60 physicians for 3.4 million people and eight nurses for every 100,000 people to help care for individuals.

They are facing severe challenges with providing basic health care especially to those living in poverty or in the remote towns and villages outside the city. Only 41% of Liberians have access to health care facilities. Liberia’s health indicators are among the worst in the world. Malaria is the number one killer of children under five in Liberia. The World Health Organization “estimates that 42 percent of in-patient deaths in Liberia are caused by Malaria and 500,000 children under five and 100,000 pregnant women are infected every year.”

The educational system structures in Liberia also face many issues. Because of the poor economy, skilled teachers cannot be retained, and schools and other infrastructures need critical improvements. Community and village learning-training centers will be essential for those individuals studying for nursing and in addition, help villagers stranded in remote areas of the country who cannot travel to the major city for help. Structural improvements will also give villagers a home base to reach out to other remote areas.

The Liberian people are in desperate need of equipment, materials and educational supplies that will educate and train their children and adolescents: these materials will help future nurses to be the healthcare healers of tomorrow who will go out into the communities as health ambassadors to educate and train their loved ones against the ravages of malaria and other diseases.

Nurses for the Nations is working in Liberia, West Africa in partnership with the Florence Nightingale Institute of Health Sciences and Living Bread Ministries through their transformational program: “It Only Takes One Bite. Help Malaria Disappear Once and for All.”  Visit facebook and see our videos.