CHIFUNDO CLINIC - ZAMBIA

I haven't written a blog for awhile, but I had an excellent visit with Dr. Marjie Heier today that I have to share. Marjie Scheuneman Heier, MD grew up in Schuyler, Nebraska (just down the road from here).  Her parents have moved to Columbus and I've gotten to know them. I am now on the board of Chifundo Clinic in Zambia, where she works and has a long term committment.  She is a Family Physician who practiced medicine in Nebraska for 22 years before answering the call to Zambia.  She partnered with Gospelink that has a Bible College in Zambia.  She went to run the health clinic there a couple years ago and it has grown to the point of seeing 2,500-4,000 patients a month.  She is the only physician, but has nursing staff and Zambian help.
She visited our church today and presented her story.  We went to lunch with her afterword and are looking at how we can help.

She is working on a building project to add clinic rooms, operating rooms and hospital rooms along with equipment.  They still need about $$$$ for the building and many other needs. In addition to that, they visit local villages and schools, working on malnutrition, HIV, immunizations, malaria, TB and education. They are making a huge difference in the poorest area in Zambia.  In addition to money for these various projects, they will be sending a large cargo container from Grand Island in the next couple of months with a variety of medical and educational supplies.  I'm sending our set of Encyclopedias among other things, even though it is old.  Some teacher friends are planning to send books as well. The national language is English, so they are accepting used books of all kinds for all ages, as some of the poorest schools have no books at all. They can use English, science, math and books to stock the school libraries. Social Studies would not be as useful since it's American.

If you would like to help with this project, contact me via this blog or FB.  Donations can be dropped off at my office as well. 

I'm putting Zambia on the radar for my mission travels, but for the moment we are planning to go to Haiti again next spring.  Nepal took a lot out of us and it's taken awhile to regroup and begin planning.  I'm sure Haiti would never have an EARTHQUAKE!!!  Ha! NN