As a part of Mercy Hospital's outreach program, nutrition packets are given to mildly to moderately malnourished children living in 45 villages in the Bo area. This year, 1,997 packets were distributed to the mothers of these hungry children. 

Outreach Coordinator Marian Saffa said, "Happy New Year to you all, and I want to use this opportunity to say thanks to you all for your relentless support to the Outreach department. Even though there were a lot of differences in this year's outreach achievement, I personally want to thank the Medical Doctor (Aruna Stevens) and Mr. Maada Navo for their countless support in making this year's outreach a successful one. "

Thank you to everyone who supported Mercy Hospital in 2022 to make this possible. Your donations are making a difference!

 If you are interested in supporting Mercy Hospital's nutrition program, you can donate online using the link below!

Samuel Rich, Filmmaker

HCW is proud to have won a major grant from the First Fruit Foundation to complete the development of a Family Care Model Expansion Package featuring a “Story of Change” documentary as part of HCW’s Continental Partnership Development Strategy.  Filming will begin in 2023, with the goal of a film release early in 2024. Award-winning filmmaker, Sam Rich (Lost Kites) (Dear Panama) has agreed to create the film with our team, Dr. Laura Horvath, Dr. Melody Curtiss, Emmanuel M. Nabieu, and David. T. Musa

The “Story of Change'' film is part of a strategy to promote Family Strengthening Models  and family care for children over institutional care. The film will tell the story of transformation from orphanage care to family care from multiple angles across organizations, countries, and stages of change in order to inspire others to become champions of change in their own contexts.   Laura Horvath and Melody Curtiss will co-direct the film, and the plan for international footage will include Foundation for Orphans programs in Mozambique, All For One/Child Prosperity Centre in Sierra Leone, Red Meets Green/Bishop Judith Craig Children's Village in Liberia, and the Divine Heritage Children's Home in Nigeria. Some footage may be filmed in Kenya, and in the United States. If you are interested in supporting this project, please contact Melody Curtiss.​

Two years ago, HCW formed a network called Together for Global Health (TGH) in order to expand our work to support infant and maternal health, connecting to others engaged in public health in a spirit of 'radical collaboration.'  TGH is a global coalition of organizations dedicated to promoting sustainable health care and wellness in low-resource communities to ensure the people we serve can receive care regardless of their ability to pay.  As 2022 draws to a close, our network consists of 20 members in 21 countries.

We were excited to learn about the work of the Compassionate Birth Network, which shares HCW's  and Mercy's values of working in collaboration to provide compassionate and sustainable care.  We were honored to be asked to become the new home of the Compassionate Birth Network, and we are thrilled by the future opportunities for collective action in this combined network that will now be supporting 35 members in 29 countries.  Through this merger, we will learn from one another and provide more organizations with resources, best practices, and capacity-building support, allowing our impact on the health of women and children to dramatically increase all over the world.