07 Jan The Saint Benedict Menni Health Center will have a new solar power system
The Saint Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia, has started procedures to set up a system for solar power production and accumulation, which will allow for covering most of the energy needs in the compound along with the current diesel generator. Now, all buildings in Sisters Hospitallers´ facility in Pipeline –Health Center, Sisters´ House, warehouse and guest house, and Step Down Unit– get electric power from a diesel generator which is started only two times a day, due to high fuel costs. The rest of the time, facilities can´t get energy supply, because the current solar panels system is damaged and obsolete.
20 Dec A delegation from Hospital Aita Menni visits Monrovia
A group of representatives of Spain´s Hospital Aita Menni visited Monrovia from December 2nd to 10th to take part in the 50th Anniversary of the arrival of Sisters Hospitallers to Liberia. The delegation was headed by Sr. Monserrat Esparza, Superior of the Community of the Hospital, and included Aita Menni´s CEO and Head of Health Programs at the Saint Benedict´s Menni Health Center in Monrovia Mikel Tellaeche, responsible of the Voluntary Service Egoitz Zabala, psychologist Macarena Aspiunza, occupational therapist Selene Vélez and volunteers Amaia Ribera and Cecilia Álvarez.
19 Dec Sisters Hospitallers celebrate the 50th anniversary of their arrival to Liberia
It was December 26th when the first community of Sisters Hospitallers was settled in Virginia, an outer area of Monrovia, Liberia. Four women, four sisters, brought the seed of hospitality to that fertile land that soon embraced them. They were Sr. María Jesús Núñez (R.I.P.), Sr. Carmen Lasa, Sr. Consuelo Zazpe and Sr. Clotilde Elvira who, sheltering orphans and abandoned children, embodied those words from that our founder María Josefa Recio said to the first sisters then, and now to all of us, "be charitable with them... and be like real mothers for them".
15 Dec “Chasing the Devil”, a journey by foot through Liberia and Sierra Leone after their civil wars
Tim Butcher was a war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, and he is a writer. His first book, Blood River, followed the route of Stanley's journey through the Congo, han he has been present in several armed warfares in the African continent. Butcher visited Monrovia...
05 Oct Anesvad Foundation awards We Are Like You with a prize of USD 11,200
Anesvad Foundation has given the second prize of the Endeavor category of their I Solidarity Awards to Hospital Aita Menni, for the development of We Are Like You mental health project in Liberia. The award has a prize of EUR 10,000 (USD 11,200).30 Sep Works for the step-down unit improve at Pipeline
During September´s first week, Aita Menni CEO Mikel Tellaeche had the chance to check out the progress of the refurbishment works that are being done to start with the activity at the step-down unit included in the We Are Like You project.
28 Sep Benito Menni Foundation holds in Pamplona a Forum on Mental Disease and Health in Africa
The Benito Menni Foundation held on September 21st a Forum in Pamplona about Mental Disease and Health in Africa, with the aim of making people conscious on the need to train professionals and raise awareness on this issue.
03 Sep Gipuzkoa county Council funds We Are Like You with USD 20,000
Gipuzkoa, Spain, county Council has given a non-refundable grant of USD 20,000 to Sisters Hopitallers´ We Are Like You project, as part of its annual call for aids to projects aimed to cooperation for development.