We leave with a group of about 20 to work in Ethiopia this week. we are trying to do an ambitious list of projects. We hope you will pray for us and the success of the mission. We hope also to visit and check on some of my favorite places like Kabana School and Akaki School besides the west of Ethiopia where most of the project will take place.
PROJECTS 2010
1. REPAIR 50 LADIES with prolapsed uteri. See picture we have 4 ob-gyns on this trip to do surgery and new dresses for all the ladies after surgery
2 mattresses for Dongoro high school we have opened the dorms for the first time this year and need mattresses for the beds
3 clean water project for 25 homes sponsored by Anna Ingram and Lori McNeill and in Charles Trumble capable hands
4 Check on orphans. We have about 60 orphans in the Gimbie area and many more scattered in Ethiopia we have a lot of clothes and supplies for them. Visit the ambo orphanage and deliver some supplies there.
5 Check on our students we have about 100 students that we help some from grade school and some in PhD and masters programs
6. Finish building a 16 room guest house on the hospital campus in Gimbie with a dining room that can seat 100 this will allow more volunteers to serve. this has largely been funded by the Sproed family in Oregon. These guest rooms have there own showers and western bathrooms in each room
7. Satellite TV for the hospital so that patients can see TV while spending their days in the hospital. It will have 3ABN. At this time there is no TV We will add satellite TVs for churches and schools in the Gimbie region project managed by Bob Westcott
8. We will do rural clinics in the region to serve the people. we plan on 5 clinics with Dr Raj Baman in charge of rural clinics.
9. We have a seed project to help the farmers and schools
10. Laptops and computers for the schools and students
11. Follow-up with our Holstein dairy project in Dongoro and Nekempte
12. FOLLOW UP WITH Dongoro SCHOOL BUILLDING PROJECT MIKE PHILLIPS AND KEBEDA Daka HAVE SPEARED HEADED AND MANGED THIS PROJECT THERE ARE ABOUT 1000 STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL NOW. Dorms are finished and new classrooms started we also need a new clinic there as the last one burned down and has not been replaced and foreign volunteers.
13. We will continue with a vitamin A supplement project to several villages in the west
14 Janice Radcliffe will run a goiter treatment project along with the vitamin A project to prevent blindness.
15. Hopefully plan for a Dr Franzke evangelism project for this October in Gimbie area
16. Soccer uniforms for several teams in Ethiopia and we will have entertainment and running races with prizes in Gimbie
17. Oromo bible distribution by pastor Worku
18. We plan to make 3-4 short videos and professional photography on Ethiopia regarding hospital, orphans and schools. We have a professional photographer with us who does beautiful work named Joni Kabana
19. Specialized medicines for some diabetics and kidney patients and medicines for small children with serious medical conditions
20. Repair of the ambulance which is damaged from hitting a donkey. This includes a new bumper, sirens and shocks and front grill.
21. new digital dental x-rays machine the best in Ethiopia 20,000 plus training for the local staff to use funded by Dr Ray Lunt
Erling J. Oksenholt, DO, FACEP, FACOEP
President, Lincoln City Medical Center
Professor of Family Practice and Emergency Medicine
Director of Samaritan North Lincoln Emergency Dept.
2870 NE West Devils Lake Rd
Lincoln City, OR 97367
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