MCH Timeline

Here are donations, other than regular child sponsorship, that Friends of Freetown has made to Mercy Children’s Home.

February 2019

£2000 to cover the final stage of repairs to the dormitory building.

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).

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).

May 2017

£250 to MCH for repairs to children’s home well.

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.

April 2016

£300 for insurance and licensing of donated vehicle.

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).

August 2014

£300 contributed to the salaries of two school teachers employed to teach the quarantined orphans at Mercy Childern’s Home.

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.

April 2014

£690 given for launching of Mercy Children’s home bakery business (ingredients, publicity, licence, equipment).

November 2013

£100 donated to MCH to provide clothes and baby food for abandoned twins.

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).

October 2012

Fire alarms, extinguishers and other safety equipment provided for Mercy Children’s Home.

July 2012

£800 to buy pigs, goats and chickens for the farm at Mercy Children’s Home. Also Purchase of a sewing machine.