As part of the regular visits we make to give exposure to the activities of our mental health care center in Monrovia, we recently visited the headquarters of World Hope International. This international organization provides those in need with opportunities, dignity and hope so that they...
As part of the training activities we attend periodically, in June our coordinator and psychiatric nurse, Ato Kwamena Sagoe, attended a 9-day workshop on substance use disorders. The workshop is part of the Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC), and was organised by the Ministry of Health, with...
Among our objectives is not only to care for people with mental illness, but also to educate and raise awareness of this problem in a country where there is still too much ignorance about the reality of these illnesses and, consequently, a high degree of...
As part of our public relations work with the Liberian community, on May 18, we presented our prevention and mental health care work at the Embassy of Ghana in Monrovia. A team consisting in Sisters, Program coordinator and staff of the center went to the diplomatic...
In May, our Nurse Supervisor, Terrica Moore, represented our Mental Health Unit in an eighteen days’ workshop on Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC) on Drug Demand Reduction (DDR), organized by the Ministry of Health. The goal of this workshop was to train professionals on this subject who...
Just after the celebration of our Founder´s Day, there came a canonic visit. The General Superior of the Congregation accompanied by her advisors represented in her second visit to Monrovia in the last three years. Sor Anabela Carneiro with Sor Blanca and Sor Elisabeth stayed...
In commemoration of his legacy, charity works, leadership skills, compassion for the affected which drove in restoring the order of this Congregation. On April 24, the day where our Founding father died in Dinan, France, we remember his works and the identity he instilled in...
Sister Encarnación González, a Hospitaller Sister who spent 30 years as a missionary at the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia (Liberia), has been awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Anesvad Foundation, which recognizes the career of people who have developed solidarity, cooperation...
Future nurses and midwives studying at the Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts will carry out internships at the Benedict Menni Monrovia Health and Mental Health Centers, thanks to an agreement signed on April 4. The Tubman National Institute Of Medical Arts, an Institution established in...
We recently visited Second Chance Chimpanzee Refuge Liberia thanks to the courtesy from its director and senior veterinarian, Richard K. Ssuna. In 1974, the New York Blood Center (NYBC), a U.S. organization dedicated to blood-related research and medical services, built a laboratory in Liberia and began...
