Let's finish building Nurse Kadi's life saving clinic in West Africa!

My name is Inga and I'm backpacking through Africa since a year back. I am currently generously given housing by Nurse Kadi and her family: her husband John and their six daughters (both born and adopted).

The house is shared with Kadi's clinic, where I have already seen some of the enourmous amount of good that she is doing in the community. I long to bring her more support than I can do on my own, so please donate what you can and share this campaign. Thank you!

Below is some more details about the clinic and Kadi's work:

The neighbourhood where we live is called Pentagon and is found in the outskirts of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Pentagon is relatively new and most of its residents live in poverty with minimal infrastructure. The city's hospitals are reachable only by dangerously unlit and unpaved roads, long and expensive journeying.

Fatimata Konti is well-known here as Nurse Kadi. Her reputation comes from her skills and from hers being the only clinic available to a lot of people. In a country that has the highest birth mortality in the world her expertise on women's and children's health is life saving.

Patients come to the clinic every day and at all hours. Women from all the neighbouring areas come here to get pregnancy care, to give birth and to bring their children for check-ups and vaccinations. The patients in the video are a few of the ones coming by on that same day. We see two mothers, both of whom have recently given birth in the clinic, coming for check-ups (weighing, vaccination, etc.) for their babies, a woman treated for malaria and a woman with her newborn who have been staying at the clinic for observation.

Besides her main work as a midwife she treats malaria, stitches up anyone who needs it, treats and informs about STIs and family planning, performs circumcisions on boys and advocates against FGM (female genital mutilation) in her community. She trains six young nurses and tries to ensure them a paycheck at the end of each month.

A year and a half ago Nurse Kadi began constructing an extension of her clinic; a second floor with two rooms and a bathroom to better the conditions for the women coming to give birth by providing more beds, privacy and hygiene. Kadi receives no funding from the outside and not all of her patients can afford to pay her, making the progress slow.

The money from this fundraiser will go directly into completing the extension of the clinic and anything left over will go into buying medical equipment. No donation is too small and all help is appreciated! Money goes a lot further here than you might think.