MCH Timeline
Here are donations, other than regular child sponsorship, that Friends of Freetown has made to Mercy Children’s Home.
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February 2019 |
£2000 to cover the final stage of repairs to the dormitory building. |
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April 2018 |
£3000 to MCH for the ost of completion of major building project (repairs, extension and upgrade of kitchen facilities and the building of a dining/study hall). |
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November 2017 |
£550 to MCH as a contribution towards children’s home expenses (including relicensing and insuring the children’s home vehicle, drainage repairs and servicing of the bakery oven). |
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May 2017 |
£250 to MCH for repairs to children’s home well. |
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April 2016 |
£500 for teeth and eye check ups for all children and staff at the children’s home plus any necessary follow up treatment. |
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April 2016 |
£300 for insurance and licensing of donated vehicle. |
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March 2015 |
£605 for doctor’s visit to MCH to test and treat children for malaria (such medical attention was impossible during the ebola crisis and several children had had to go untreated). |
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August 2014 |
£300 contributed to the salaries of two school teachers employed to teach the quarantined orphans at Mercy Childern’s Home. |
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July 2014 |
£200 emergency payment to Mercy Children’s Home at the outbreak of the Ebola crisis for water buckets with taps, gloves and soap. |
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April 2014 |
£690 given for launching of Mercy Children’s home bakery business (ingredients, publicity, licence, equipment). |
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November 2013 |
£100 donated to MCH to provide clothes and baby food for abandoned twins. |
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October 2013 |
£400 for teeth and eye checks and follow up treatment for all children and staff at Mercy Children’s Home (including a minor operation for one member of staff). |
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October 2012 |
Fire alarms, extinguishers and other safety equipment provided for Mercy Children’s Home. |
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July 2012 |
£800 to buy pigs, goats and chickens for the farm at Mercy Children’s Home. Also Purchase of a sewing machine. |